New Report on Women in the Economy Is Tone-Deaf and Misguided

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'The National Economic Council just released “Jobs and Economic Security for America’s Women,” and the report is, in many ways, about as ho-hum as you can get: women’s increased role in the economy and as family breadwinners, women’s gains in education, and the challenges women face, such as the much ballyhooed “wage-gap.” Naturally, this assessment is followed up with a list of the initiatives the administration has launched or plans to launch. But there is something notable about the report: It exemplifies everything that’s wrong with this White House in terms of both tone-deafness and policy.
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It’s fine to do an analysis of how one particular group of Americans is faring, and the group doesn’t always need to be most disadvantaged one. Yet in focusing on women’s economic challenges, the report misses one of the largest factors that determines women’s financial security: men’s economic prospects. Men’s deteriorating employment greatly impacts married women and women with children who depend on fathers for support. Few people (outside of women’s studies departments) see the world in terms as a war between the sexes. Women’s and men’s fates are inexorably tied in family finances, so to ignore men’s bleaker economic situation makes this report more an exercise in politicking than a useful analysis of women’s current economic challenges.'