Ms. Memo: This Week in Women's Rights
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January 19, 2022 |
With so much at stake for women and for equality, Ms. will be reporting on policy initiatives and progress within Congress and the Biden-Harris administration—as well as tracking the backlash to equality. Every Wednesday, we will keep you updated, informed and ready to push forward!
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BY MARY BABIC| When President Biden celebrated passage of the infrastructure bill with a walk across a creaky, rusty bridge in New Hampshire, it sent a loud signal about what’s to come. Men in hard hats and orange vests, repairing the hardware that enables the economic engine to keep humming. Cars and trains and trucks and bridges—and jobs for men.
Indeed, it’s likely that 90 percent of the new jobs will go to men, laboring in construction, energy and transportation.
Not to be flippant: Our physical infrastructure has been crumbling for decades, and it’s essential to shore it up and make it functional; and it’s an excellent way to put people to work in decent jobs, with real skills. We do, indeed, need bridges that don’t collapse and roadways that stay open during snowstorms.
But the truth is that the new bill provides only half of the whole picture of what we need. The “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” did not, and does not, stand alone; it has a twin, in the form of the Build Back Better Act, which is just as (if not more) important. This bill invests in the deeper, more profound infrastructure of our economy—the framework that enables people to go to work, prevents our landscape from going up in flames, provides adequate healthcare to our people, and, after decades of neglect, seeks to strengthen the middle class.
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This week marks Roe v. Wade’s 49th birthday—and it very well may be its last. What’s at stake for abortion rights and our democracy in 2022? Join Ms. magazine and The Gender and Policy Center at George Mason University's Schar School on Jan. 21 to find out. RSVP here.
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