Women and the GOP

On September 16, 2008, Dr. Laura Schlessinger wrote a post on her blog entitled "Do Women Fare Better With The GOP?".  I thought it was an excellent observation!

"Barack Obama and Joseph Biden are both fishing for the women’s vote - especially disenchanted Hillary Clinton feminists. Biden has insisted that Republicans, including Sarah Palin, represent a step backwards for women.

But when you look at the labor market data from the Census Bureau (as Professor Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago has in a new study), to figure out “the amount and reasons for women’s progress in the labor market since the 1960s” something very interesting is revealed. (Wall Street Journal 9/12/08).

In 1988, the last full year of Republican Ronald Reagan’s administration, wage growth for women working full-time throughout the year improved by 8.3% from the end of the Democratic administration of Jimmy Carter. “Johnson, Carter, and Clinton were all Democrats, yet none of them witnessed much labor-market progress for women during their administrations: eight years of Reagan, four years of George H.W. Bush, and six years of George W. Bush.” The Nixon-Ford administrations were the only Republican administrations that didn’t make it to this list of forward momentum for women.

In the Quarterly Journal of Economics, August, 2008, Professor Mulligan and Yona Rubenstein (from Brown University) calculated the statistics that showed women’s annual wage growth relative to men’s:

Under Republican administrations, women’s annual wage growth relative to men was .0.87% under George W. Bush, 1.4% under George H.W. Bush, and 1.6% under Ronald Reagan. Under Democratic administrations, women fared less well. Their annual wage growth relative to men was 0.21% under Bill Clinton, 0.04% under Jimmy Carter, and minus 1% under Lyndon Johnson.

I like that color lipstick, especially if the kids are grown or Daddy is home with the kidlets."

WE Will Be The Deciding Factor, Ladies!

The polls show that McCain and Obama are essentially tied across the country.  Some polls show one up a couple of points over the other, but if you look really close you see that the error of margin is usually +/- 4 points.  Discussion last night on the O’Reilly Factor was about who would decide the election.  The consensus was that WOMEN would be the ones to make the difference in who is elected to serve as President of the United States.  As women we cannot go about our daily lives as usual, and then head to the polls to vote uninformed.  We must have all the information needed to make an informed decision.  This blog is a great place to discuss this information, but essentially we are all responsible for our own decision.  Please, do your research.  Find out what each candidate stands for.  Find out what their record is in the Senate.  Find out what you can about what they did before they were Senators or Governors or Community Organizers.  And when you make YOUR informed decision, speak up about your choice in a positive manner. Encourage your friends and acquaintances to do the same.  We must vote on November 4^th.  Your vote may be the one to break the tie!

 

Submitted by M. Carmichael