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Mitt Romney’s three-ring faux pas might have gotten all the attention during last week’s presidential debate, but it was hardly the most insensitive of his statements regarding women. To me, the worst was the second part of his response to audience member Katherine Fenton’s question, “In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?”
So Romney’s the type of guy who’s cool with letting a woman leave work two hours early to cook for her kids. And yes, that sounds likes a swell quality in a boss. But considering that, as president, Romney would be the boss of relatively few women, who cares what time he’d let them leave? And anyway, who really wants to work in a place where the women are allowed to leave early so they can mince garlic and dice tomatoes and brown onions? (If I left work at five I could roll out fresh pasta, too, but that’s not the point.)
