On Meet the Press earlier today, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul decided to continue the recent GOP trend of trying to lose women's votes, when he said the following:
"This whole sort of war on women thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won. You know, the women in my family are incredibly successful. I have a niece at Cornell vet school, and 85% of the young people there are women. Law school, 60% are women. In med school, 55%. My younger sister is an OB-GYN with six kids and doing great. I don't see so much that women are downtrodden. I see women rising up and doing great things. In fact, I worry about our young men sometimes because I think the women are outcompeting the med in our world [...]
The women in my family are doing great. That's what I see in all the statistics coming out. I have, you know, young women in my office that are the leading intellectual lights of our office. So I don't really see this, that there's some sort of war on women that's, you know, keeping women down. I see women doing great and I think we should extol that success and not dumb it down into a political campaign that somehow one party doesn't like women or that. I think that's what's happened. It's all been for political purposes."
Let me bust out my calculator here. Rand mentioned two specific cases where women are doing very well. There are over 150 million women in this country. So, what's 2 divided by 150,000,000? Too microscopic of a number to even mention.
It's true, women are now earning more college degrees than men. However, women are still making between $0.75 to $0.80 to the $1.00 of what men make for the same job. So, from a professional perspective, women still aren't receiving equal respect (and with that, pay) as men. When equal pay bills have come to the floor, while most Democrats have voted in favor of such legislation, most Republicans have voted against them. The Republican Party has also fought to take away women's abortion rights, to remove their contraception coverage with regard to their healthcare plans, and made it more difficult for some to vote, amongst other things. All of this has built to a war on women. Rand Paul can believe whatever he'd like, but when a party attempts to strip away a gender's reproductive rights, limit their voting opportunities, and to maintain the glass-ceiling effect for them professionally, they've started a war on that gender, and that's exactly what the GOP has done with women. Women have yet to win this war, but once they vote people like Rand Paul out of office, that dream of equality will eventually become a reality.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/26/3205991/rand-paul-war-women/
"This whole sort of war on women thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won. You know, the women in my family are incredibly successful. I have a niece at Cornell vet school, and 85% of the young people there are women. Law school, 60% are women. In med school, 55%. My younger sister is an OB-GYN with six kids and doing great. I don't see so much that women are downtrodden. I see women rising up and doing great things. In fact, I worry about our young men sometimes because I think the women are outcompeting the med in our world [...]
The women in my family are doing great. That's what I see in all the statistics coming out. I have, you know, young women in my office that are the leading intellectual lights of our office. So I don't really see this, that there's some sort of war on women that's, you know, keeping women down. I see women doing great and I think we should extol that success and not dumb it down into a political campaign that somehow one party doesn't like women or that. I think that's what's happened. It's all been for political purposes."
Let me bust out my calculator here. Rand mentioned two specific cases where women are doing very well. There are over 150 million women in this country. So, what's 2 divided by 150,000,000? Too microscopic of a number to even mention.
It's true, women are now earning more college degrees than men. However, women are still making between $0.75 to $0.80 to the $1.00 of what men make for the same job. So, from a professional perspective, women still aren't receiving equal respect (and with that, pay) as men. When equal pay bills have come to the floor, while most Democrats have voted in favor of such legislation, most Republicans have voted against them. The Republican Party has also fought to take away women's abortion rights, to remove their contraception coverage with regard to their healthcare plans, and made it more difficult for some to vote, amongst other things. All of this has built to a war on women. Rand Paul can believe whatever he'd like, but when a party attempts to strip away a gender's reproductive rights, limit their voting opportunities, and to maintain the glass-ceiling effect for them professionally, they've started a war on that gender, and that's exactly what the GOP has done with women. Women have yet to win this war, but once they vote people like Rand Paul out of office, that dream of equality will eventually become a reality.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/26/3205991/rand-paul-war-women/
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