Labor Day Perfect Occasion for John McCain to Answer Working Women’s Questions
Gloria Feldt and Carole Joffee wrote this piece on Huffington Post in honor of the Labor Day holiday tomorrow. Please read the full post for the commentary, but here are the questions they want this GOP presumptive nominee for president to answer:
First, John McCain, do you think women belong in the paid labor force?
So if you accept most women will spend some of their lives in the labor force, do you believe women should earn the same as men, for the same jobs?
Can you explain to us why you voted-twice-against a reauthorization of S-Chip, the immensely popular state children’s health insurance program-a program supported by many in your own party?
Can you explain why your record on children’s issues generally is so bad that the nonpartisan Children’s Defense Fund in its 2007 Congressional scorecard on children’s issues rated you the senator with the worst voting record?
Did Ms. Fiorina fail to get your memo that in order to curry favor with the Religious Right your campaign had to adopt a strict anti-birth control policy?
Why have you abandoned your once nuanced positions [in regard to abortion]?
Senator McCain, where do you stand on these intersecting challenges facing working women?
Is it really your vision that women should be paid less than men, accept unsatisfactory childcare and healthcare for their children, yet have limited access to contraception that could reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion, and risk possible injury or death, when–if you are in a position to appoint Supreme Court justices–abortion becomes once more illegal?
They sure sound like a good place to start, on Labor Day no less.
3 Responses to “Labor Day Perfect Occasion for John McCain to Answer Working Women’s Questions”
When you read the stories about the public schools in places like DC (Newsweek story) and Baltimore (HBO special) is it hard to see that the Democratic Party cares at all about children
Of course, the article lied when it talk about equal pay for equal work. The Democratic Party is pushing for comparable pay where the government would rank occupations and determine what the pay would be for each one relative to other jobs. The comparable pay proposals is just a method to increase the pay of pink collar, 8-5 office jobs relative to more dangerous, harder to fill, tradesman jobs.
Do you realize the stereotype you are flaunting here: “The comparable pay proposals is just a method to increase the pay of pink collar, 8-5 office jobs relative to more dangerous, harder to fill, tradesman jobs”?
Since I walk by a construction site every work day and have seen a grand total of one women working in a hard hat, then maybe it is not a stereotype.
Do you really want the government to make a calcuation that answer a telephone should pay more than the Fedex driver?