This one's for you, ladies.
After Mitch McConnell
said Monday that he wasn't sure "arguing 'vote for me because I'm a woman' is enough," Hillary Clinton pinpointed what Republicans keep making painfully clear:
they just don't get it.
"Wow," Clinton told HuffPost during a Facebook question-and-answer session. "If that’s what he said, Mitch McConnell really doesn’t get it. There is a gender card being played in this campaign. It’s played every time Republicans vote against giving women equal pay, deny families access to affordable child care or family leave, refuse to let women make decisions about their health or have access to free contraception." [...]
"These aren’t just women’s issues, they are economic issues that drive growth and affect all Americans," Clinton said. "Anyone who doesn’t get that doesn’t understand what our lives are like."
Perhaps, Clinton was thinking of
data like this:
In 2013, the income of employed married women comprised 44 percent of their family’s income, up from 37 percent of household income in 1970 ... [Since male income has stagnated] nearly all of the rise in family income since the 1970s has been due to the earnings of women.
While speaking in Kentucky Monday, McConnell
said millions of Americans might "love" to have a female president.
"The question is, a woman president to do what?" he said.
Oh, IDK, treat women as adults who are equal participants in the economy, the life of the country, and their own health care decisions. That would be pretty novel.