Women more worried about economy

Interesting Quote from Marcia Greenberg:
"They often struggle to achieve economic security and health care that meets their needs, and face difficulties securing access to equal education and employment opportunities."

Women have difficulties accessing equal education? Does she mean that the educational establishment discriminates against women? The educational establishment predominantly run by liberals?

As a woman, my main issues are DRILLING HERE, and the costs of everything that has gone up because of high gas prices will go back down. Everyone was pretty happy prior to the gas prices going up. The pessimism is all in the MEDIA, all the doom and gloom that's being fed to everyone regularly....it's no wonder anyone is happy. What can you do, it's an election year and they have to prove, just as this article tries to do, that we have to have CHANGE/Obama to make it better ha. I am a woman and I SUPPORT MCCAIN 08!

Teresa,

What is up with the "ha?"

Was it the New York Times that reported last week that women workers are losing jobs faster than men? Of course, women are concerned about the economy! They are also concerned about getting equal pay for equal work, on which subject McCain is pathetic. He didn't show up in the Senate to vote on a bill that would give more assurance to women workers that their wages are fairly determined. Since the Bush supreme court made it harder for women to sue when they discover they are not being paid the same as their male counterparts, all McCain says is that women need more "educational opportunities."
No--women need laws that protect their status in the workplace. But McCain hasn't been in the Senate to vote since April.

Athena-what particular jobs are you refering to, that you say women are not getting the same pay?

In my experience I've recieved the same pay as my male counter parts.

I've always felt that I should get paid according to my work, not my GENDER.

Another example of what internet-savvy people have called Surber's Rule: if the media quote someone on politics, and don't mention the partisan affiliation, that someone is a Democrat.

It's wonderful that the Swamp reprints all this "analysis" from the NWLC, without telling readers that the NWLC is the usual DC-based left-wing no-Republicans-need-apply interest group. For example, the Marcia Greenberger quoted above is a mega-bucks contributor to Clinton, Kerry, and Ted Kennedy, and NWLC's chair, Brooksley Born, is a megabucks contributor to Obama, Clinton and Kerry.

This information will enable intelligent readers to evaluate what NWLC says, and evaluate what kind of groups Swamp journalists inevitably use as sources.

Terry--
The National Women's Law Center is a leader in the struggle to ensure that women and girls have equal educational opportunities. From the time Congress enacted Title IX -- the 1972 federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education -- the Center has advanced and protected the rights of female students in educational institutions: speaking out against biased testing that restricts opportunities for female students and policies and practices that block women's access to non-traditional courses such as math and science, for example, and addressing pervasive sex-segregation in career and technical education. The Center has long pushed for vigorous enforcement of Title IX through public education, advocacy, and key lawsuits challenging discrimination in athletics; sexual harassment, and single-sex programs that exclude young women, among other issues.

Bruce--
About the National Women's Law Center

Since 1972, the Center has expanded the possibilities for women and girls in this country. The Center uses the law in all its forms: getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families. An experienced staff of nearly 50 takes on the issues that cut to the core of women's and girls' lives in education, employment, family economic security, and health -- with special attention given to the needs of low-income women and their families.

Now if Conservatives had their way, the women's suffrage movement would have been stopped dead in it's tracks. Damn those liberals!

dt-YOU SAY>Now if Conservatives had their way, the women's suffrage movement would have been stopped dead in it's tracks. Damn those liberals!

*Excuse me, but that is a goofy little myth that libs like to spew to scare women voters. Any of them falling for a candidate based soley on that BS diserves the candidate they get ha. Your statement just assumes that all women voters are Democrats. NOT SO, there are a lot of us that support the GOP and guess what, a larger than reported amount of disgruntled women who supported HILLARY are not going to vote OBAMA ha. Sorry I don't have more time SWEETIE ha, I gotta go!

dt,

Do women have trouble getting access into math and science classes in 2008? There s/b plenty of openings since the NEA educated schools can't teach math and science in the first 12 years. Also, its hard to believe that there is discrimination in an institution run by liberals. Could that possibly be?

Whoa, big surprise that cost of living is outstripping income. Guess what folks, it's not news that inflation adjusted incomes haven't risen in 30 years. Meanwhile we're expected to provide retirement, health care, disability insurance and everything else ourselves now, whereas for the same income 30 years ago those things were included. Meanwhile inflation skyrockets upwards and even then it is understated because some genius decided that it would be wise to exclude food and energy costs from the inflation calculation. Precisely the things that the bottom 80% of the nation spends most of their income on. All of this comes out of the asinine policy of trickle-down economics. The idea that if you concentrate wealth at the top, those people will somehow start buying so much more food and household trinkets that it will support jobs for those on the bottom. The odd thing is, those darn ultrawealthy invest their money instead of spending it! Who could have guessed that? Look, the GOP policies on economics are dead wrong. Its just propaganda to get you to vote against your own interests. By definition the majority in this country is not wealthy. All it would take is for them to stop voting as if they will hit it big and be rich one day too, and start voting the populist interests that actually represent them, and no republican would be in office anywhere. We have the numbers, we just need to educate people and get the political will to demand our needs be met. And no, it doesn't have to mean higher prices if stockholders also exercise their right to vote and reduce CEO compensation to reasonable levels as well as dividends. We need to demand both good salaries and benefits and low prices. Businesses that can't deliver can go under according to the capitalist model and be replaced by more well operated ones. Same for politicians and government budgets. In both cases the money is there, its just being allocated to stupid interests.