POLITICO
The mayors of Baltimore, Charlotte and Salt Lake City wrestle with some of the most contentious issues dominating national policy conversations, including health care and improving public school systems.
These city leaders also all happen to be female – and are tired of having some of their cities’ most thorny issues singled out as “women’s issues.”
“I think we diminish the issues and we diminish our role when we have to always tie women to certain issues,” Mayor Jennifer Roberts of Charlotte, North Carolina told POLITICO editor Carrie Budoff Brown in the latest episode of the Women Rule podcast.
During a roundtable discussion in Miami Beach, Florida, Roberts and others criticized the framing of some policy topics – including education and reproductive care – as strictly “women’s issues.”
