Comments on: Hilary Rosen kerfuffle misses the point of Romney’s real disconnect with women by Marjorie Arons-Barron http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/04/15/hilary-rosen-kerfuffle-misses-the-point-of-romneys-real-disconnect-with-women-by-marjorie-arons-barron/ Lowell Politics and Lowell History Tue, 21 May 2013 02:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Renee Aste http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/04/15/hilary-rosen-kerfuffle-misses-the-point-of-romneys-real-disconnect-with-women-by-marjorie-arons-barron/comment-page-1/#comment-13365 Renee Aste Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:54:11 +0000 http://www.richardhowe.com/?p=14933#comment-13365 Just as addition to my thoughts in regards to the want of employment flexibility here is a recent post from Freakonomics. One Woman’s View of the Female Wage Gap http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/04/17/one-womans-view-of-the-female-wage-gap/ "If I could add this non-scientific but beyond anecdotal research: I’ve called hundreds of women for executive roles in carrying out searches for our clients. They simply say “No thanks.” Perhaps they are a single parent and the current role is 20 minutes from home and the one I’m calling about is 50 minutes to an hour away. And these are executive roles. They say “no thanks” because they are unable to travel or commit the hours for the job that would move their careers further upward. To take that “exceptional” role. I call it, “Why very good is better than exceptional.” They have roles that are “very good” that also allow them to be closer to picking up kids, etc" Just as addition to my thoughts in regards to the want of employment flexibility here is a recent post from Freakonomics.

One Woman’s View of the Female Wage Gap

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/04/17/one-womans-view-of-the-female-wage-gap/

“If I could add this non-scientific but beyond anecdotal research:
I’ve called hundreds of women for executive roles in carrying out searches for our clients. They simply say “No thanks.” Perhaps they are a single parent and the current role is 20 minutes from home and the one I’m calling about is 50 minutes to an hour away. And these are executive roles.
They say “no thanks” because they are unable to travel or commit the hours for the job that would move their careers further upward. To take that “exceptional” role.
I call it, “Why very good is better than exceptional.” They have roles that are “very good” that also allow them to be closer to picking up kids, etc”

]]> By: Renee Aste http://www.richardhowe.com/2012/04/15/hilary-rosen-kerfuffle-misses-the-point-of-romneys-real-disconnect-with-women-by-marjorie-arons-barron/comment-page-1/#comment-13334 Renee Aste Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:50:22 +0000 http://www.richardhowe.com/?p=14933#comment-13334 While we all agree it was poor judgment to bring Ann Romney into the discussion by bring up her lack of person income, the economy is important. Yesterday I attempted to engage in a conversation on Facebook, that sadly turned into a partisan pissing contest, so I did my best to disengaged. We all have bad days. Back about 13 years ago I worked part-time at an investment firm with the hours of 6-10pm, making over 15 dollars an hour as customer service for their retirement accounts. The economy doing well and in the mid-90s it only cost 2500 a semester to go to UMASS Lowell. Our worst fears were Y2K and joking that we didn't having flying cars as the future promised. We were all going to be millionaires off the Internet. Most of my fellow co-workers were parents (mothers/fathers), who at one time were full time, but with children day-care was cost-prohibitive. When the economy is strong, companies are willing to bend over backwards for their employees and fit and be flexible to their needs, including benefits like health-care. It isn't that we don't care about education and the environment, but the ability not to worry about having a family is a big deal. To have a family, that means parents need flexibility in their work schedules. Access to free contraception may be nice for the majority of women, but free contraception doesn't solve the bigger issue of what woman want, we want the financial security to have the family. Free preventive medicine to avoid a baby doesn't give us that. Just as we have no choice to work, we now end up having no choice to limit the size of our families if we don't have flexibility and housing/college debt takes away everything we earn or have faith that the economy won't dip again. BTW the liberal in question was mocking my use of NFP, when I mentioned I use to pay for my contraception in the past. He also stated it was 'senseless' to have more then two children (I have four), and I was a religious right-wing extremist. NOT COOL, considering I'm against school vouchers, against the death penalty, against torture, I care for the environment, OK with unions, and believe in humane immigration laws that can be enforced. 13 years ago I would of informed this individual Bill Clinton was in office, but he was too busy calling me a liar who was trying to twist his words around. Remember that 90's catch phrase, 'it's the economy, stupid'. How is it really different today? While we all agree it was poor judgment to bring Ann Romney into the discussion by bring up her lack of person income, the economy is important.

Yesterday I attempted to engage in a conversation on Facebook, that sadly turned into a partisan pissing contest, so I did my best to disengaged. We all have bad days.

Back about 13 years ago I worked part-time at an investment firm with the hours of 6-10pm, making over 15 dollars an hour as customer service for their retirement accounts.

The economy doing well and in the mid-90s it only cost 2500 a semester to go to UMASS Lowell. Our worst fears were Y2K and joking that we didn’t having flying cars as the future promised. We were all going to be millionaires off the Internet. Most of my fellow co-workers were parents (mothers/fathers), who at one time were full time, but with children day-care was cost-prohibitive.

When the economy is strong, companies are willing to bend over backwards for their employees and fit and be flexible to their needs, including benefits like health-care. It isn’t that we don’t care about education and the environment, but the ability not to worry about having a family is a big deal. To have a family, that means parents need flexibility in their work schedules.

Access to free contraception may be nice for the majority of women, but free contraception doesn’t solve the bigger issue of what woman want, we want the financial security to have the family. Free preventive medicine to avoid a baby doesn’t give us that. Just as we have no choice to work, we now end up having no choice to limit the size of our families if we don’t have flexibility and housing/college debt takes away everything we earn or have faith that the economy won’t dip again.

BTW the liberal in question was mocking my use of NFP, when I mentioned I use to pay for my contraception in the past. He also stated it was ‘senseless’ to have more then two children (I have four), and I was a religious right-wing extremist.
NOT COOL, considering I’m against school vouchers, against the death penalty, against torture, I care for the environment, OK with unions, and believe in humane immigration laws that can be enforced.

13 years ago I would of informed this individual Bill Clinton was in office, but he was too busy calling me a liar who was trying to twist his words around. Remember that 90′s catch phrase, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’. How is it really different today?

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