Quick Hit: Grading the White House on Women’s Issues

Our girl Samhita is quoted in this recent Forbes piece about the White House and Women’s Issues.

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, 32, executive editor of feministing.com, believes female support is slipping. “Using reproductive rights as a bargaining chip was a big setback, and it made him lose morale with a lot of women’s rights groups.”
Still, Mukhopadhyay says young women, particularly those who quit their jobs and moved to swing states to campaign for Obama, are frustrated. “They don’t feel what they fought for is being legislated. They aren’t going to go join the Tea Party, but I think there is a risk that they will check out again.”

Read the whole article here.