Congressman Krishnamoorthi Highlights Importance Of Supporting Working Mothers Through Expanding Access To Quality Affordable Child Care

WASHINGTON – During today's hearing of the Special Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis titled "COVID Child Care Challenges: Supporting Families and Caregivers," Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi confronted Carrie Lukas, President of the Independent Women's Forum, on previous comments she made dismissing women in the workforce, feminism, and the value of access to affordable quality childcare. For the cover of her 2006 book, The Politically Incorrect Guide To Women, Sex, And Feminism, cover shown below, Lukas wrote:

• Careers can be baby-deniers: Women can't postpone childbearing without serious consequences
• How feminists lost the sexual revolution (by agreeing that women should be disposable sex objects
• Why the happiest women spend more time with their families and less time at work (because you can't outsource parenting)
• Most women want a husband and a strong family, but "independent" feminists pine for a sugar daddy in Uncle

"Most women want a husband and a strong family but ‘independent' feminists pine for a sugar daddy in Uncle Sam." The cover of the book also promoted Lukas' view that, "the happiest women spend more time with their families and less time at work."

"While Ms. Lukas may be dismissive of women remaining in the workforce after having children, that is not only the day to day reality for millions of American women, it's the reality for many of them because they chose it," said Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi. "However, what they didn't choose was the appallingly high cost of quality affordable childcare in America. Helping more families afford child care will enormously reduce financial pressures on American families while also making it possible for women who want to reenter the workforce to do so."

Footage of the Congressman's question line is available here.

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Carrie L. Lukas's 2006 book