Obama’s recovery plan is gender balanced – aide argues

Efforts were made to stimulate growth in employment rates for both men an women, argues Christina Romer, the soon-to-be chair of a comittee of economy advisers in the White House in a YouTube interview.

These comments came after women’s groups in the US started voicing their concern that the stimulus plan would largely target the male dominated construction and manufacturing industries.

From The Huffington Post:

In conversations with several women’s issues officials, you do indeed get the sense of legitimate worry that the makeup of the stimulus package will be too focused on construction and manufacturing — traditionally male areas of work.

“There is great concern,” Martha Burk, formerly chair of National Council of Women’s Organizations, told the Huffington Post, “not only that women won’t get the jobs, but that unemployment itself is not helping women in the same numbers as men.”

 

We should follow the example set by Obama and make gender equality one of the main targets when creating policy.