{"id":8774,"date":"2018-03-08T22:23:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=8774"},"modified":"2018-03-08T22:23:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:23:31","slug":"three-international-womens-day-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2018\/03\/three-international-womens-day-items.html","title":{"rendered":"Three International Women’s Day items"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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It\u2019s International Women\u2019s Day today \u2013 an occasion that Americans were pretty indifferent to, in our pre-social media days. But now Facebook wanted to be danged sure we knew about the day, so here are three observations.<\/p>\n

One.<\/h3>\n

In my twitter feed earlier today, a comment that in, in recognition of International Women\u2019s Day, we Americans need to step up, via the federal government, our subsidies of child daycare, so that mothers of young children boost their labor force participation rates.\u00a0 Which is not a new line of argumentation; back last summer<\/a>, for instance, the Center for American Progress put out what the called the \u201cchild care calculator,\u201d which purported to show the cumulative financial cost of women sacrificing some number of years of their working lifetime to caring for their children.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s something else what we\u2019re missing, a different sort of stepping up:\u00a0 women are disadvantaged as a result of some number of years of stay-at-home parenting not because it\u2019s the natural order of things, but because employers are unwilling to hire nontraditional workers, preferring fresh college graduates, for white collar jobs, to mothers returning to the workforce, or middle-age job changers, or even aging, but not yet retired workers \u2014 or, worse, refusing to consider nontraditional workers, then complaining that there is a shortage of qualified workers.<\/p>\n

Two.<\/h3>\n

An Iranian woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran\u2019s compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to two years in prison, the judiciary said on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

according to a report in The Guardian<\/a>, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This is, it seems to me, much more the point of the IWD commemorations.<\/p>\n

Three.<\/h3>\n

Back in my early blogging days, well before the Trump vs. Clinton face-off,\u00a0I speculated<\/a> that it wasn\u2019t just coincidence that the two female leaders of large economically powerful countries, thus far, were from their countries\u2019 conservative parties.\u00a0 In one respect, the post doesn\u2019t appear to have aged well:\u00a0 Margaret Thatcher was unmistakably conservative, but Angela Merkel\u2019s fiscal conservatism at the time has been forgotten in view of her welcome of Arab\/Muslim migrants.<\/p>\n

Was my theory that a future female American president would be conservative, disproven by Hillary Clinton\u2019s near miss?\u00a0 Consider the fact that lots of women were excited about Clinton\u2019s nomination, but I didn\u2019t really hear of women reporting, \u201cI usually vote Republican, but for the sake of electing a woman, I\u2019ll change\u201d \u2014 though, of course, the very fact that Clinton\u2019s opponent was Trump means that it\u2019s difficult to read much of anything into it.<\/p>\n

But what if the female candidate were a Republican \u2014 say, Nikki Haley, for instance?\u00a0 It seems to me that Democratic women, or Democrats in general, are more likely to be excited by women\u2019s officeholding gains.\u00a0 Are they more likely to cross party lines to vote for a candidate, because that candidate is a woman, than their Republican counterparts are, giving female Republican candidates a boost?\u00a0 Or, as I wrote back in 2014, does the abortion litmus test mean that a Republican female candidate will be viewed by Democrats as a \u201ctraitor to her sex\u201d?<\/p>\n

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