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Fact Sheet: Obama Administration Record for Women and Girls
Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2014-08-26 16:58
Article here. Excerpt:
'In recent decades, women’s participation in the workforce has transformed the American economy. Today, nearly half of all primary breadwinners are women, and since 1970, women’s labor has contributed $13,000 to the median family income and expanded the economy by $2 trillion dollars. Young women today are also more likely than young men to graduate college, and just as likely to earn advanced degrees. Yet, despite these gains, women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men earn, and women of color earn even less making it more difficult to provide for their families and secure the promise of the American dream. Women also experience unacceptably high levels of violence, from domestic abuse to sexual assault, and gender disparities persist in health care access and workplace policies.
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Improving the Juvenile Justice System’s Response to Girls: The number of girls arrested has grown by 50 percent since 1980; and Native American girls are four times more likely, and African American girls are three times more likely, to be incarcerated than white girls. To help address this disparity, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) supported multiple projects to better meet the needs of girls in the juvenile justice system. Projects include an effort to improve services for system-involved girls and develop gender-responsive, trauma-informed policies and practices, as well as a study to better understand the impact of juvenile justice system involvement on adolescent maturation, trajectories of delinquency, and young adult adjustment among females. OJJDP will also evaluate the Young Women Leaders Program, a one-on-one and group-based mentoring program to prevent delinquency and related outcomes in at-risk girls.'
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Facts. Indeed.
POTUS can't seem to get to reading his administration's own analysis re the "wage gap", but we already knew this. No use re-hashing old ground. So long as it panders to the "right people" and gets your party their votes, and better yet, it's all financed by the taxpayer along with your frequent vacations, it's all good.
The victim narrative
The President portrays women as in need of more help because they're victims of whatever. Men, of course, are not. For example, he claims women have problems accessing health care, though it's typically men, not women, who have difficulty accessing health care. ObamaCare provided a number of health care freebies for women but almost none for men.
But focusing on women leaves one of his constituencies in the breach: black men. As we have seen from the events in Ferguson, black men are not necessarily happy with their lot in life. Much of their anger is directed at alleged white racism. But I've seen some comments suggesting black men are unhappy with Obama because he's done nothing for them. And I must ask: what has Obama done for men? Well, nothing. We're the bad guys in the standard cultural narrative--and we have no real problems (just ask the feminists). But by ignoring men, Obama has also ignored black men--who expected him to do more for them.
In many ways, black men are like the canaries in the mine: how black men are treated is a gauge of how all men are treated. What racism does is simply magnify the poor treatment men often receive in this culture. What happens to black men will eventually happen to all men. But I think black men expected Obama to do something to help them--but instead he's focused on women and girls, which means all men, including black men, get zip. The difference is black men expected more from Obama--and their hopes have been dashed. It's the same old, same old for black men.
re: Obama admin record for Women an Girls
His failure in everything is complete.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/386218/madness-2008-victor-davis-hanson
Easy to predict Obama's direction
1. He has 2 daughters and no sons.
2. His own dad skipped out (supposedly -- we only have a narrative from a source other than his father abt what happened), leaving his g-mom to do much of the raising of him.
It doesn't take a Ph.D. in clinical psych to see what that leads to. Self-loathing due to an identification with his absent father, coming from the unfavorable judgments of him he created and expressed to him by his "self-objects", i.e., his grandmother, mother, et al. His mother and step-dad, like his dad, also were married only briefly. The turmoil the moving from Hawaii to Indonesia and back must have been really hard. No wonder he turned to drug usage to deal with it when he was a teen. I probably would have, too.
But the sum of it, whether or not deemed understandable, is that one could predict based solely on his life's path "configuration", he'd be all about women, black ones especially. After his experiences (as related by others or lived) w/ people representing in his mind black men, it's pretty obvious where his attention was going to be placed. No surprise he tapped "VAWA Joe" (aka "Pander-bot") as his running mate.