HIGID: BeccaBalintVT is both the first woman and the first openly gay person elected to represent Vermont in Congress. While exciting to voters and thrilling for Balint, her election was a reminder of the hurdles women in politics still face
?” It’s a complicated set of issues, but one of those issues is that we don’t have enough high-quality, affordable child care. And so people — even those who want to go back to work, who are skilled, they want to be back in the workforce — can’t right now because they can’t find child care. That’s going to continue to be an issue. We have to promote not just family-friendly policies but family-supportive policies.
I think of Vermont as being progressive and leading the way in a lot of different respects. I was surprised to learn that you’re the first woman and the first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress. What has taken so long? It is a little mind-blowing, isn’t it? A couple of things are going on here. One is we have been well served by outgoing Senator Leahy, Senator Sanders, and outgoing Congressman Peter Welch. If they had been doing a poor job they would not be reelected year after year. It’s also true that politics for many, many years, and still today, is not set up for women to succeed. Case in point: the issue of my struggles with child care.
I was successful in doing this because I actually do have a wife at home who is picking up so many pieces, so many threads. If you don’t have somebody who fundamentally believes that you have a right to do this and you should do this for more representation and for better policy, it is very difficult to run statewide. There are structural. Vermont is not immune. We have homophobia as well. I also know, as a woman and as an openly gay person, I bring a different lens to the conversation.
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