You made reference to the imbalance in the infrastructure stimulus funding and advocated tying the funding to gender. A lot of the funding is going to sewers, water, roads, and the kinds of things in which few women work. If some of that money had been invested in social infrastructure like child care, or more in affordable housing, would there have been a better outcome for women? Would we have employed more women? Would we have made life better for women by encouraging them to take the kind of jobs we've been talking about here today?
On October 22nd, 2009. See this statement in context.