They Don't Speak for Us
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Conservative women to White House: You dont speak for us
posted at 10:31 am on April 6, 2012 by Tina Korbe
For the third year in a row, the White House will host a conference to highlight womens issues and to tout all that this administration has supposedly done to advance the welfare of women in society:
The White House Council on Women and Girls is hosting the White House Forum on Women and the Economy where business leaders, education leaders, and Cabinet secretaries will discuss a gamut of issues from healthcare to workplace flexibility to help for small businesses run by women. President Obama will address the diverse group of participants when he gives the keynote remarks in the morning session.
There will also be breakout sessions where there will be further discussions on ways to help womens lives better through economic and social policy. Several Cabinet secretaries, like Attorney General Eric Holder and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will lead panel discussions.
The White House will also be releasing a 55-page report on all the ways various departments and agencies have implemented policies to benefit women. Some examples of those initiatives are focusing on equal pay for women, affordable college education, tax cuts that benefit women, and healthcare policies, like the recent controversial coverage of contraceptives.
Conservative women see through the ruse. For weeks, the administration has reduced issues of concern to women to just one the question of whether insurers will be made to cover the costs of womens contraception. What the White House is, perhaps, belatedly realizing is that women care about more than just birth control. As the nations fastest-growing segment of small-business owners, they care about the business climate created by tax and regulatory policy. As moms who fill the gas tank to drive their kids to school, they care about energy prices and education policy. As single young women saving for their futures, they care about the coming implosion of entitlement programs. Womens political issues, in other words, are really not very different from mens issues even though women themselves are different than men. At the same time that the president insists that women should be members at Augusta, he plays identity politics in a way that marginalizes the women he reduces to gender alone.
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