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Obama’s Council on Women and Girls

hypocritexposer

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I didn't think abuse or hoing for failure of women was so prevalent, but listening to some on here, this is a worthy issue. Congrats Obama!

I hope female "Bubbas" and "ugly" entertainers are included!

March 11, 2009, 3:16 pm
Obama’s Council on Women and Girls
By Lisa Belkin
PoliticsPolitics
(Illustration by Barry Falls)

President Obama has just signed an executive order establishing the “White House Council on Women and Girls.” The purpose of the new group “is to ensure that American women and girls are treated fairly in all matters of public policy,” he said at the signing. “Our progress in these areas is an important measure of whether we are truly fulfilling the promise of our democracy for all our people.” He defined those areas as economic security, a balance between work and family, violence against women and women’s health.

In part the council will be a switching station for the existing bureaucracy, getting all Federal agencies to focus on “the challenges confronted by women and girls to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impact women and families,” the White House said. But if it goes beyond that, and creates rather than simply coordinates change, what exactly should that change be? What are the issues and policies today that affect “women and girls” to the exclusion of, or more dramatically than, “men and boys”?

There is no one more vocal than I about the fact that women and men experience the realms of family and work differently (you can find some examples of my thoughts here and here.) But I think that too many of the problems women and girls have in the world stem from the fact that the problems are considered “their” problems — “women’s problems” — rather than problems that both genders share.

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/obamas-council-on-women-and-girls/?hp
 
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