Electoral breakthroughs deserve celebration, but lasting significance will depend on whether political power translates into greater economic security for women and families.
Women Made History. Now The Economy Needs To Catch Up.
“The opportunity for this new class of leaders is not simply to help more women manage that contradiction. It is to challenge it. What would policy look like if we stopped treating an uninterrupted employment history as the only credible evidence of economic contribution? If we recognized that caring for a child or an aging parent is work, even when no paycheck accompanies it? If we designed governmental supports around families’ need for economic stability rather than requiring them to repeatedly prove how precarious their lives have become in the face of a cost of living crisis?”