Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I keep hearing this repeated but I don't get the rationale. Do people think congress will pass a law taking away women's right to vote? Please explain.
You can forget about federal paid maternity leave, equal pay, affordable child care for all. Our right to vote won't be taken away but we will definitely go back to being 2nd class citizens. Your bra size will be your most, if not only, job qualification.
Ok I agree not having those things sucks. HOWEVER, if Clinton were elected instead, she would not have been able to pass anything through a Republican controlled Congress. So regardless who won the presidency, we weren't going to get anything anyway.
Out of those three, equal pay is the only one that wouldn't have come out of the taxpayer's pocket, because it would have been a federally mandated law that company's must match salaries for equal assignments/positions regardless of gender and that's it. I am sad for that.
But the other two can burn in hell, I was dreading paid maternity leave and affordable child care. You think accessible health care for everyone in this country was expensive? Imagine paying for daycare for everyone's brats and for a woman to take a year off work to have more. No.