The Top 5 articles for your week: “Why Are We Worrying About Women’s Work?” (NYT) Because Liz Bruenig calls out what we identified in the run-up to the passage of the American Rescue Plan: when it comes to pro-family policies, there’s a motiviated “anti-” crowd who wish to use public policy to carry out the culture wars of the 1960s and 70s. As Bruenig writes, “It’s likely true that policies tailored to make it harder for mothers to meet their children’s needs could persuade women to contort themselves into the workplace — social engineering by way of child privation, not unlike the Trump administration’s bet that parents would stop trying to cross the border if they lost their children in the process. Policy in that style isn’t emancipatory for women or any other person; it is profoundly inhumane.”
Top 5: Women + work
Top 5: Women + work
Top 5: Women + work
The Top 5 articles for your week: “Why Are We Worrying About Women’s Work?” (NYT) Because Liz Bruenig calls out what we identified in the run-up to the passage of the American Rescue Plan: when it comes to pro-family policies, there’s a motiviated “anti-” crowd who wish to use public policy to carry out the culture wars of the 1960s and 70s. As Bruenig writes, “It’s likely true that policies tailored to make it harder for mothers to meet their children’s needs could persuade women to contort themselves into the workplace — social engineering by way of child privation, not unlike the Trump administration’s bet that parents would stop trying to cross the border if they lost their children in the process. Policy in that style isn’t emancipatory for women or any other person; it is profoundly inhumane.”