{"id":5243,"date":"2011-06-29T02:18:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2011-06-29T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T09:18:25","slug":"a-generation-of-republican-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/a-generation-of-republican-misogyny\/","title":{"rendered":"A Generation of Republican Misogyny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty years ago, I supported the Equal Rights Amendment, and when it passed Congress, I thought it was a done deal.  I did not anticipate that the included ten year time limit for ratification by the states would expire without it garnering the necessary three fourths.  Last week, the ERA was reintroduced.  Although some of the right-wing arguments against it are now pass\u00e9, many of them remain the same, and I anticipate a tough fight, considering Republican wishes that poor and middle class women be regarded as chattel, property to be passed from father to husband, and kept barefoot and pregnant.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

This piece is by Rep. Lynn Wolsey (D-CA).<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29era\"It is with great pride that I stand with this bipartisan group in support of the long-overdue Equal Rights Amendment. I can\u2019t help but think of the words of our former colleague and feminist pioneer Pat Schroeder, when she was asked if being a mother would get in the way of her duties as a member of Congress. She said: \u201cI have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.\u201d <\/p>\n

I thought that summed it up pretty well. Close to forty years later, we\u2019re still facing the same obstacles, the same glass ceiling, the same unfair treatment<\/strong>. Whether we \u201cuse both\u201d or not \u2013 for women who have children and those who choose not to – gender discrimination is persistent and pervasive. <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t afford to miss this opportunity to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Not when women still \u2013 still \u2013 have to work almost through the weekend in order to earn what a man makes Monday through Friday<\/strong>. Not when women\u2019s health care is under assault<\/strong>, as we saw earlier this year with the attempted de-funding of Title X and Planned Parenthood. Not when the Supreme Court of the United States is throwing out class-action lawsuits from women claiming years of pay discrimination on the job.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the text of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment, Section 1: \u201cEquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex<\/strong>.\u201d\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow covers right wing anti-feminism then and now.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Isn\u2019t it amazing how familiar many of those arguments sound?  Can\u2019t you picture them coming from McConnell or Boehner?  I can almost feel the hate from the InsaniTEA and Theocon wings of the Republican Party now.<\/font><\/p>\n

Of course, although my humor sometimes drifts to male chauvinist pig mode<\/em>, I fully support equal rights.  In 1972, I promoted a woman to a management position over five men.  Three quit, rather than work under a woman.  I hired one man and two women to replace them.  When she asked why I chose her, I told her that she was the best man for the job. \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

Pass the ERA!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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