Is that her excuse?
Posted on 09/30/2014 6:45:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In her speech to the United Nations last week, first lady Michelle Obama chose to highlight some of the negative things that women face in the United States today.
"Women are still woefully underrepresented in our government and in the senior ranks of our corporations," Obama said at the Global Education First Initiative event. "We still struggle with violence against women and harmful cultural norms that tell women how they are expected to look and act."
The first lady, meanwhile, made no mention of women who are regularly raped and beaten in Afghanistan, forced to kill their female babies in China and not permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia. Those three countries, by the way, are members of the United Nations.
Obama correctly noted "tremendous progress in areas like college graduation rates and workforce participation." But is that really news to anyone?
Since the 1980s, more women than men have been graduating from college in America. According to data from 2012, the percentage of women who enrolled in college after high school rose to 71%, while the percentage of men remained stagnant at 61%.
So what about Obama's claim that women are "woefully underrepresented in our government and in the senior ranks of our corporations"?
It's true that American women make up 47% of the workforce, according to Labor Department statistics from 2012. But gender discrimination is not what's behind our lack of female CEOs and government officials — and harping on that idea certainly isn't what got successful female CEOs to those leadership positions.
Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, the 20th employee hired by Google, was asked how it felt to be the only woman on the search giant's engineering team. Her reply? She hadn't noticed. Mayer turned a successful career at Google into the top job at Yahoo.
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“We still struggle with violence against women and harmful cultural norms that tell women how they are expected to look and act.”
:”we will degrade....and destroy” that culture...
Is that her excuse?
Wow, what a fashion maven she is...
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Another day, another ugly curtain to drape over her limbs.
Wow, that’s almost a self-parody there...
She’s certainly not living up to expected cultural norms, is she? If I didn’t know better, I’d swear that was photoshopped.
Let’s see, women want and get equal pay for tennis championships, but only play 2/3 sets, men play, 3/5 sets...equal pay for unequal work?
How about driving the ball off the men’s tees?
How about let’s calculate how many men die on the job vs women? Do the women clamor for these dangerous jobs???
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