I don’t think we can wait to see if there is a brighter tomorrow. We need to lay the foundation now. We need to say that this is the reality — that we want work to make sense for those who are employed. That we want work and family dynamics to make sense for women.
If we want to enact change, we must join our voices together. NOW encourages all of our activists to take part in the series “Wake Up, This Is Reality!” organized by our sister organization, Fem2.0.
Women are responsible for helping get us out of this recession. A recent PEW study suggests that 22 percent of heterosexual married couples have wives earning more then their husbands. Women are now more likely than ever before to be the bread winner and contribute a higher share of income to their families. It should be no surprise then that women now constitute almost 50 percent of all workers.
As a longtime proponent of health care reform, I truly wish that the National Organization for Women could join in celebrating the historic passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It pains me to have to stand against what many see as a major achievement. But feminist, progressive principles are in direct conflict with many of the compromises built into and tacked onto this legislation.
NOW President Terry O’Neill said, “President Obama’s State of the Union speech was never expected to be a policy address about women’s rights, but women were keenly listening to every line — and paying close attention to the messages between the lines, or left unsaid altogether.”
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