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Obama Goes Full Feminist: Time To Do Away With Workplace Policies That Belong In A Mad Men Episode
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/28/3219231/obama-feminist-mad-men/
President Obama let his feminist flag fly during his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. Citing pay disparity and paid leave policy, he argued to loud applaude that women are still unequal in the United States, and that there are policies that can change that:
Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, its an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work. She deserves to have a baby without sacrificing her job. A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship and you know what, a father does, too. Its time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men episode. Lets work together Congress, the White House, and businesses from Wall Street to Main Street to give every woman the opportunity she deserves. Because I believe when women succeed, America succeeds.
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)!!
Years of the women about to happen for real
alp227
(32,065 posts)first the Grammys where Kacey Musgraves sang a great performance of "Follow Your Arrow" and where Sara Bareilles and Carole King did a great rendition of "Brave"...
now Obama revealing he is pro feminist in the SOTU...
it's a BAD BAD week for the fundies I tell ya!
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Skittles
(153,226 posts)yes INDEED