The Heritage Foundation and the Independent Women’s Forum hosted “Breadwinner Moms: Truth Behind the Trend” yesterday to discuss the issues surroudning the rise of high-earning never-married and family-supporting women. Speakers include The Heritage Foundation’s Jennifer Marshall, the Manhattan Institute’s Kay Hymowitz, IWF’s Sabrina Schaeffer and Doublethink’s Cathy Reisentwitz.
Here are top tweets from the event:
1. Thank you .@SL_Schaeffer for calling out liberals and feminists for perpetuating the women as victims storyline #breadwinnermoms
— beth1027 (@beth1027) July 23, 2013
2. Today we neglect individuality & what makes women unique; we need to reevaluate success and the good life.-@MarshallJenA #breadwinnermoms
— Ken McIntyre (@KenMac55) July 23, 2013
3. “The economy is not hostile to women,” says @SL_Schaeffer, and more working women have higher degrees #breadwinnermoms at @heritage
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) July 23, 2013
4. “25% of households with children under 18 are led by a single mother who is the sole breadwinner.” @MarshallJenA #BreadwinnerMoms
— Meredith Kelley (@MeredithKelley) July 23, 2013
5. The rise of unmarried parents isn’t something to celebrate. Lets study the impact on children & on men. – @KayHymowitz on #BreadwinnerMoms
— Jackie Anderson (@AnderSayings) July 23, 2013
6. . @KayHymowitz We are seeing increasing assumption that marriage and children are 2 entirely separate phenomenon. #breadwinnermoms
— Ericka Andersen (@ErickaAndersen) July 23, 2013
7. @Heritage Children need to learn the value of family. Married parents who work together are important #breadwinnermoms
— American Blues (@americanblues_) July 23, 2013
8. The more we empower women to do it alone- we are training men they don’t need to step up – @KayHymowitz #breadwinnermoms
— Sondra Clark (@SondraClark) July 23, 2013
9. “We don’t want gender equality at the expense of one gender,” says @iwf‘s @SL_Schaeffer on men’s response to women working #breadwinnermoms
— Tyler O’Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) July 23, 2013
10. @MarshallJenA totally right! Women who have a career still want to get married, we don’t see life as one or the other. #breadwinnermoms
— Jessica Fawson (@Jessicafawson) July 23, 2013
11. http://t.co/RqEdN34XNA @Heritage: @MarshallJenA: We live in an era where traditional life scripts have been broken down #BreadwinnerMoms
— Sarah Grant (@SarahGrant5) July 23, 2013
12. @SL_Schaeffer “there is a hunger from younger women to learn the balance of work, family and life” #breadwinnermoms
— Jessica Fawson (@Jessicafawson) July 23, 2013
13. ‘Bacon is bacon’ doesn’t matter whose bringing it on home @Heritage #BreadwinnerMoms
— Katie Loperfido (@KatieLoperfido) July 23, 2013
14. ‘You can be a stay home caretaker or go out & be a breadwinner- your gender doesn’t matter’ #BreadwinnerMoms @Heritage
— Katie Loperfido (@KatieLoperfido) July 23, 2013
15. @SL_Schaeffer: Rise of breadwinner moms can free men to pursue new opportunities. What’s good for women can be good for men #breadwinnermoms
— Carissa Mulder (@Carissa_ND) July 23, 2013
16. @CathyReisenwitz: We should celebrate that we are at a time when women can step up and have opportunities. #breadwinnermoms
— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) July 23, 2013