George W. Bush was a father to daughters, and so was Bill Clinton. But your perspective seems fresh, new, and dare I say the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153f\u00e2\u20ac\u009d word? Feminist. I think our friends at Ms. Magazine got it right:<\/p>\n
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Hallelujah. You recognize that the personal is political, and vice versa. Parenting daughters has clearly made you think about how you lead, and about how your political choices and policy decisions will shape your daughters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 lives.<\/p>\n
Our country needs this framework, and your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to do\u00e2\u20ac\u009d list is long. For example, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve blogged about my wish for some federal leadership on curricular reform, and I hope you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n But for now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m content to wait and see what unfolds under your leadership and your parenting. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also raising an 8-year-old daughter, and I know that we probably share some of the same hopes and ambitions for our girls. I know for sure that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping to create a more equitable world for her, and yes, a more feminist one, too.<\/p>\n Sincerely, This post is part of a forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n This post was first posted on February 6, 2009 at NCRW’s The Real Deal<\/a>. Dear Barack and Michelle, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m writing to you as the parents of beautiful girls, and as people who hold the future of this country in your hands for the next four years. I know that you both take seriously your job as parents as well as the way you can shape public policy to improve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21103],"tags":[13676,8959,245,85],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-girl-talk","tag-childcare","tag-families","tag-feminism","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAllison Kimmich
\nExecutive Director, National Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Studies Association<\/a><\/p>\n
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