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Needed but now not so much. the boys are back in town, and all the talk of flexible hours, equal pay and care for aging parents has dropped off the face of the earth or maybe the fiscal cliff. the families still face the same challenges every day. a new poll finds that an overwhelming 86% of voters say it s important for congress to consider new family friendly laws like paid sick days and family and member legal insurance. ultimately these are critical pocketbook issues. our next guest is championing family friendly legislation for years but says there is no reason to be hopeful. let s bring in working mom and ceo carol evan, the latest issue of working mother magazine is now out. carol, thanks for being with us. start with the issue you re focused on right now. the united states is the only developed country in the world that doesn t have paid maternity ....
Effective and less capable of doing the work we need on our employees to do. amen, carol. you have a list of the lawmakers working hardest and most effectively for working fathers. talk about some of the senators. i want to focus on the senate. some of the snores who get a grade a from your magazine and what are the things they are pursuing that give you that grade a? bob casey and kristen gillibrand, let s start with them. all the senators who made our list are doing two things. one is that they re either sponsors or voting for bills family friendly. they also have to qualify by having tremendous policies for their own employees. most people don t realize that the employees of senators and representatives are on their own to negotiate their own benefits with their senator or representative employer. so how do they treat their own employees is something that we wanted to look at, too. ....
These senators are giving great maternity benefits, flexible work arrangements and under such tough circumstances because these are extreme jobs, as you all know. carol, i was pleased to see you have some republicans on this list and some republican men to boot. what can the party, the gop do to learn from these guys as they try to overcome that so-called war on women that they had to combat over the past years going forward? what great things did these republican guys do that they should take a page from? the republicans really stood strong on family friendly policies. whether it was a pay discrimination act or something about the vote for the hiring the heroes of america act, these republican senators came through. they also treated their employees really well. i mean, i think it s very distressing the do nothing congress really did nothing for ....