OPINION:
The best money manager I ever saw was my mom. Running a two-bedroom, 800-square-foot, six-person household on a limited income came easily to her.
Never hungry, never cold and recalling how she welcomed and fed every visiting relative or friend, I never realized I’d grown up poor until a fellow student walked me through it in college.
I write software for a living, and the best programmer I ever knew was a Hispanic woman named Erlinda. Like my mom, Erlinda’s skill seemed to be second nature. With her calm manner, she saw straight paths through complex coding issues before anyone else did.
Similarly, the best managers I ever had at jobs were women. The one I had at Mellon was focused and methodical. She charted the most convoluted project plans and handled assignments and personalities like a skilled juggler. My current manager is as good-natured as she is thorough, and unflappable when project conditions change.
These wickedly smart women are why I’m shocked at female — especially moms’ — support for continuing federal policies that let teachers initiate sexual and gender-related conversations with young children at school.
I am shocked that they continue to support policies that have led to an increase in the death risk of adolescents from border-mule fentanyl (1,100 adolescent deaths annually) and strap young adults with higher grocery, gasoline and housing costs.
Never mind that restoring “choice” to states means no administration can ever make abortion illegal across America and that legality will always have 50 separate avenues (36 of which are already paved).
In my experience, women are too intelligent to vote for gender, pigment or personality over policies that improve their loved ones’ standard of living.
ROBERT SZYPULSKI
Irwin, Pennsylvania
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