means, who are able to figure it out and piece it together somehow, but that it is not okay for lower income class women to do that. so if you want to make the argument that mom should be staying home, and republicans want to make that argument, why do they then go against the family medical leave act and paid leave for women and sick leave and child care issues? you can t have it both ways. and ellen, let me bring you in on this, but a it does seem that the work you are doing around policy is exactly about this question of how do we and i agree, it is fascinating to suddenly watch the choice language shift, and now the choice language is coming from the right, where obviously for the past few weeks we have had a lot of choice language coming from the progressives. are there policies that could legitimately make it more possible to choose staying home? absolutely, and they are pending right now on the local, state and national level. unfortunately, the people who are wrapping the
agreement and disagreement of how the story would wrap. and i kept saying, zip it, stop saying that a mom is not working. but i also fundamentally agree with the idea that one need not experientially know something in order to have information and knowledge and be able to express that politically. i think of eleanor roosevelt who was, herself, wealthy and a womanp of privilege who did a great deal of work around the poor in this country, but the differences though on this question of choice if i agree with you and say that a woman should have choice to stay home with her kids, then shouldn t a poor woman and why should it be then that only a wealthy woman has that option? because if everybody has the choice, then we have to have the societal programs in place to be able to do that. so it is sort of a you can t have it both ways the ways that the republicans are talking about it. you can t have a world where it is okay for privileged moms, middle-class moms who have the
so let me give you some examples. rush limbaugh the other day was ranting how women have so much flexibility at work. unlike rush, i like to start with the facts, something that you will appreciate, melissa. so look at the few facts. the united states is one of four countries in the entire world where women don t have paid maternity leave, and as a result, half to women who give birth go back to work without having received a dime in income while they were out in leave. and those who do the majority of them, you know what they are using? vacation time they have saved. anybody with a newborn knows, it is a great joy, but not a vacation. i am talking about the right to choose to stay home when you give birth even long enough to heal or the right to stay home when the school calls and says that your child is sick or any of us who have kids have had it happen that your kid wakes up sick, and you have to figure out what to do. my husband and i raised two sons and we tried really hard to tra
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the notion that there is actually women s work impacts the kind of renumeration that women receive. well, it is really interesting to see what happens when women do for a living the work that women do in the home. these are the jobs that are paid the least. you know, the people who watch our young children make less than the people who care for our cars or our pets or our lawns. that is what this society really thinks of mothers. and you know, i m happy to be talking to you from wisconsin where our governor and several other politicians are adding fuels to the flame on the war on women and where many of us are resisting, because let s talk a little bit about the people who for example domestic workers or home health workers who take care of the elderly or the sick, and not only are paid minimum wage, but sometimes not even, because they are often not protected by the employment laws for overtime. they are seldom getting any benefits like the right to stay