In the year 2018, we shouldn’t be questioning whether women and men can do equal work, but that’s where we find ourselves today after the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman made a remark that has a whole lot of women irked. The Wall Street Journal reports on what happened when they asked Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) why there aren’t any Republican women on the committee:
“It’s a lot of work – maybe they don’t want to do it,” Mr. Grassley told reporters. “My chief of staff of 33 years tells me we’ve tried to recruit women and we couldn’t get the job done.”
Mr. Grassley later returned to clarify that he did not mean to imply women could not handle the committee’s workload, but rather that it made it less appealing to senators of both genders.
“We have a hard time getting men on the committee,” he said. “It’s just a lot of work whether you’re a man or a woman, it doesn’t matter.”
Dear @ChuckGrassley –
It’s 8:16AM, without knowing you or your chief-of-staff for the last 33 years, I can say with a decent amount of confidence, I’ve out worked both of you today.#girlpower https://t.co/LP9HGpLEzZ— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) October 6, 2018
So @ChuckGrassley thinks women are too lazy to serve on the judiary committee? What century did he fly in from? https://t.co/vDnSE3pYyQ
— Marci (@Marci_24L) October 6, 2018
In a week of stupid comments, this one is up there. https://t.co/1kN5UTNlKf
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) October 5, 2018
.@ChuckGrassley says there are no GOP women on judiciary committee because the work is too hard. Women and men of America….let’s stand up to this insult. Let’s outwork the GOP and vote them out in November.
— Barbara Boxer (@BarbaraBoxer) October 6, 2018
Note: Democrats have four women on the committee.
