{"id":365,"date":"2005-07-05T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2005-07-05T16:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2005\/07\/05\/one-republican-senator-on-womens-rol"},"modified":"2005-07-05T12:52:52","modified_gmt":"2005-07-05T16:52:52","slug":"one-republican-senator-on-womens-role-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2005\/07\/05\/one-republican-senator-on-womens-role-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"One Republican Senator on Women&#8217;s Role in Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a280'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senator Rick Santorum, a &#8220;rising star&#8221; of the Republican Party, <a href=\"http:\/\/capitolbuzz.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/santorum-book-excerpts.html\">in his book<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMany women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more &#x201C;professionally&#x201D; gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children. Think about that for a moment&#x2026;Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, there is no problem whatsoever with choosing to stay at home to raise your children. Whether you&#8217;re a man or a woman, in fact. It&#8217;s a beautiful, fantastic, commendable choice. But as always, the problem with these social conservatives (and with the Republican Party as a whole, these days), is that they don&#8217;t want you to choose. They want to tell you how to live and how to raise your children. They know better than you how to live your life.<\/p>\n<p>What will Republican Women say? Is this the policy of the Republican Party?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rick Santorum, a &#8220;rising star&#8221; of the Republican Party, in his book: Many women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more &#x201C;professionally&#x201D; gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children. Think about that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}