According to a recent poll by the National Women’s Law Center, women feel the impact of economic insecurity and rising food, energy, education, and health care costs more deeply than men – and see government as a key to the solution.
Women want:
- A better health care system
- An end to the wage gap
- Affordable birth control, comprehensive sex education, and protection for Roe v. Wade
- Access to high-quality child care
- Improved economic security for women and their families
- A solution to the dropout crisis
- A fair and independent judiciary
For more details on the poll, read NWLC’s press release, the fact sheet, or the complete Interested Parties memo on the poll results.
A Platform for Progress
The National Women’s Law Center also released A Platform for Progress – an agenda to address the unmet needs of women and their families in the areas of education, employment, economic security, health, and legal rights.
These concerns should be adressed as quickly as possible. The health of civilization should not be framed by gender. Any resistance to complete equality requires that someone get a bigger piece of the pie. Assuming all who participate, in any way, to the wellbeing of the organism are equal in need is the first step. The second step is the removal of the ability to gain and then hoarde privilege. This second factor allows privilege to be doled out rather than earned.