Earlier this week in Michigan, Donald Trump said in a Neanderthal-like appeal to women voters that he was the best candidate because he was “getting your kids back to school” and “getting your husbands back to work.”
To that, Nancy Pelosi said today:
What decade is he living in? What century is he living in? — Speaker Nancy Pelosi
CBS News writes:
Mr. Trump’s comments come as job losses due to the pandemic have disproportionately affected women. In September, 865,000 women over 20 dropped out of the workforce compared to 216,000 men, according to data from the Labor Department. Women are overrepresented in some of the industries hardest hit by the pandemic, such as leisure, hospitality and health care.
Moreover, the burden of child care generally falls to women, meaning some women may choose to leave the workforce so they can take care of children unable to go to school in person. A September analysis by Stateline, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, found that mothers of small children have lost work at three times the rate of fathers during the pandemic.