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Why Is the Senate Failing To Build Back Better? Blame Sexism
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But the truth is that the new bill provides only half of the whole picture of what we need. The “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” did not, and does not, stand alone; it has a twin, in the form of the Build Back Better Act, which is just as (if not more) important. This bill invests in the deeper, more profound infrastructure of our economy—the framework that enables people to go to work, prevents our landscape from going up in flames, provides adequate healthcare to our people, and, after decades of neglect, seeks to strengthen the middle class.
So why is the Build Back Better Act coming into 2022 looking tattered, diminished, and, perhaps, headed for the trash bin?
Well, let’s call it: BBB is not first about men, and the work of men, and the Business of America. Instead, it’s about the intangibles that undergird the roads and bridges: childcare, clean energy, healthcare, education and taxing billionaires.
In other words, it’s about people—children, the elderly, families, women. Especially women. And the truth is that we don’t value women’s work in the same way that we value men’s work. This is true both for the work, and for the women. On the one hand, jobs that involve tasks typically considered “women’s work” (such as caring for children and elders, cleaning, cooking) pay less and offer fewer rewards and benefits—even when these jobs require high levels of skill, education and training. And it’s true of women at work doing the same jobs as men: Women are paid less in the same jobs, just as men doing “women’s work” jobs are paid more.
https://msmagazine.com/2022/01/14/build-back-better-women-senate-sexism-families-infrastructure/
But the truth is that the new bill provides only half of the whole picture of what we need. The “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” did not, and does not, stand alone; it has a twin, in the form of the Build Back Better Act, which is just as (if not more) important. This bill invests in the deeper, more profound infrastructure of our economy—the framework that enables people to go to work, prevents our landscape from going up in flames, provides adequate healthcare to our people, and, after decades of neglect, seeks to strengthen the middle class.
So why is the Build Back Better Act coming into 2022 looking tattered, diminished, and, perhaps, headed for the trash bin?
Well, let’s call it: BBB is not first about men, and the work of men, and the Business of America. Instead, it’s about the intangibles that undergird the roads and bridges: childcare, clean energy, healthcare, education and taxing billionaires.
In other words, it’s about people—children, the elderly, families, women. Especially women. And the truth is that we don’t value women’s work in the same way that we value men’s work. This is true both for the work, and for the women. On the one hand, jobs that involve tasks typically considered “women’s work” (such as caring for children and elders, cleaning, cooking) pay less and offer fewer rewards and benefits—even when these jobs require high levels of skill, education and training. And it’s true of women at work doing the same jobs as men: Women are paid less in the same jobs, just as men doing “women’s work” jobs are paid more.
https://msmagazine.com/2022/01/14/build-back-better-women-senate-sexism-families-infrastructure/
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The BBB which is very popular with the majority of Americans is having a hard time because every
single republican senator including the following female republican senators Marsha Blackburn, Shelley
Moore Capito, Susan Collins, Joni Ernst, Deb Fischer, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Cynthia Lummis, and Lisa
Murkowski, and 2 money driven democratic senators want to stop it because they don't want to give
President Biden a win. If and when the BBB becomes law it will help all Americans including the women.
