Republicans, and their women, cannot understand that

[HockeyMom]

if a woman cannot control her body, her health, and especially her fertility, she cannot control her life. Jobs will mean NOTHING if employers will not hire her because she is at the mercy of one pregnancy after another.

"Are you married?" "How are you going to work when you have children?" "Will you stay home from work when your kids are sick?" "I am post menopausal, cannot have children, and they will hire ME before you."

Those are real interview questions I have heard back in the 60s and 70s. Young women, how many times have you heard those questions in interviews?

These will be the questions asked once again if the War on Women by the Republicans and they gain control and legislate their let's go back to the good old days philosophy.

This the KEY to the War on Women.

[LiberalLoner]

1. So true!

[hedgehog]

2. "their women"? Kind of says it all!

[SheilaT]

3. While prospective employers

cannot legally ask those questions, when I returned to the workforce after 25 plus years of being a stay-at-home mom, and no we weren't rich, just decided to do it that way, I found it easy to mention that my children were grown. The subtext was that I wasn't going to be getting pregnant any time soon (actually, I was post-menopause) and that I no longer had any child related responsibilities.

The sad truth is that the workplace is inordinately hostile to workers who have any kind of child related obligations. Women do tend to carry the major part of that burden, but there are single fathers out there, as well as fathers who simply want to participate more in their children's lives. But all too often the assumption is that the job comes first. We need a fundamental change in the entire attitude of our workplaces.

And this would also benefit those who don't currently have young children. Work would become more reasonable. Everyone could have a life.

[Moonwalk]

4. Of course they understand all this! What do you think....

...is the end point of all this legislation? The aim is to return to a time when women stayed at home, unseen, raising the kids. They didn't work, didn't get educations and didn't vote. That's the way the GOP wants it. They undermine the minority vote with voter laws, and undermine women voters with all this other crap, and that leaves behind white males...who are the ones who keep them in office.

I think they understand and know exactly what they're doing. As for their women--the GOP is the party for the rich, and their women are happy to be rich. Happy to have cheap help watch over the kids they have. So, of course, they've no objection to all this. They are creating their own version of "heaven" for them and them alone. The only ones who don't understand are the poor who are voting republican, deluded into thinking that if they do, they'll somehow become like the rich republicans.