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Diana Furchtgott-Roth
is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, where she directs the Center for Employment Policy. Prior to joining Hudson, Ms. Furchtgott-Roth was chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor and chief of staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth is the editor of Overcoming Barriers to Entrepreneurship in the United States (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008) and the coauthor of The Feminist Dilemma: When Success Is Not Enough (AEI Press, 2001) and Women's Figures: An Illustrated Guide to the Economics of Women in America (AEI Press, 1999). Ms. Furchtgott-Roth is a contributing editor for RealClearMarkets.com.
How Obama’s Gender Policies Undermine America
Women are riding out the recession more easily than men, with a lower unemployment rate and a higher percentage attaining high school diplomas and Bachelor and Master degrees. Yet President Obama and Congress, responding to fierce feminist lobbying, propose to expand preferences for women in both education and hiring. Whereas original feminists portrayed women as [...]