Mary S. Hartman, a historian, is founding director and senior scholar at Rutgers' Institute for Women's Leadership and a Tucson public voices fellow with The OpEd Project. Her books include "Talking Leadership: Conversations with Powerful Women" (ed.), "Victorian Murderesses" and "The Household and the Making of History."
In a first for a State of the Union address, President Obama put a central focus on the role of women in the economy. But his message about needing child care as a national economic priority wasn’t just for women. It was for everybody.
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