Ann Romney and Working Moms
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Ann Romney and Working Moms
| Thu, 04-12-2012 - 11:26am |
Hilary Rosen has started a Twitter firestorm by stating that Ann Romney isn't capable of giving advice on women and the economy since she's never worked a day in her life:
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(And let's be clear, I doubt the woman has never not worked a day in her life..)
But she was defending/rebutting something that wasn't ever said. I can spout "The sky is blue" all day long; but it's meaningless if no one said the sky was pink.
Exactly, taken out of context.
A woman who has never "worked for pay" in her life can't fully understand, because she's never experienced, the economic issues that arise in the jobforce. This applies to both SAHMs that are wealthy and those that are not. She can, however, be supportive of "working women".
A wealthy woman, WOH or SAH, can't fully understand, because she's never experienced, the real-life implications of a crappy economy. She can't understand choosing between food on the table or the water bill. She can't understand what not having access to medical care or childcare can do to a family barely above the poverty level.
Romney is a case where she has never worked for pay and has always been wealthy, so the idea of her "representing" working women in today's economy is a farce.
But "for pay" is part of the context of Rosen's comments and to continue to deliberately take a phrase out of context is insulting.
You believe that being a mother and volunteer work, isn't a job?
Rosen is right, Ann Romney hasn't worked a day in her life, in the context that Rosen was speaking.
Ann Romney doesn't try to represent working mothers, What she has presented however is that women care about the economy (regardless of working status) and that's what Rosen wrongly tore down...
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