Working Mothers

Frank Bruni weighing in over the weekend on women who stay at home and apparently need to be defended tipped the scale for me. Now men who aren't raising children feel qualified to get indignant. That's it. I am up on my high horse. Really? The argument that women who take care of children and run a household are working too is news? Where have people been the last 20 years? Duh they are working. But--and this is a big but--women who stay at home aren't the majority of women raising children in America in the 21st century. Parents who stay at home, regardless of gender, have very different lives than those who juggle home and work life. It is just not the same. One is not inherently better or more laudable than the other. But to equate them is to miss the reality for women right now. Let's get back to the real question and stop dilly dallying around with something that is not the issue. Does Romney resonate with women? Why or why not? Being tone deaf to issues related to money and privledge should be the headline. His wife not only stayed home to raise her children, she stayed home after that was accomplished. They did not require her income, nor did she seek that experience. Does her circle of friends include middle income women raising children under ten? Is she a reasonable source of information about what matters to the majority of women of voting age? It is lovely that he is so loyal to his spouse of 40 plus years, but does he need to cast a wider net? I am sure he is relieved that for once, he is not the butt of the media feeding frenzy, but let's get back to the real questions.