Kellyanne Conway suggests mothers shouldn’t take jobs in the White House

Kellyanne Conway told an audience at Politico’s Women Rule event Wednesday that, thanks to Donald Trump’s victory, “It’s a great time to be a woman in America.” She said women should “go for it” and “ask for what we think we deserve.” That is, unless they have children. My children are 12, 12, eight, and seven, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea for mom going inside [the White House]. They have to come first and those are very fraught ages. She then implied the same standards should apply to all mothers who are seeking high-level jobs. When male colleagues suggested Conway take a White House job, she responded, "would you want your wife to?" You really see their entire visage change. It’s like, oh, no, they wouldn’t want their wife to take that job. She said all women are “welcome in the Trump White House” but her comments seem to suggest, in line with Ivanka Trump's previous statements, “the most important job any woman can have is being a mother.”