except for tax breaks for businesses that offer flextime and so on.lso very little discussion of lung -- about class differences among men and women and equal parenting. conservative women have recognized and they did say to me there is a change in family dynamics and ultimately, gender role ideology. conservative women themselves are actually expanding ideas about what legitimate gender roles are for conservatives, not in ways that are identical to what feminist do. groups --ve women's conservative mothers are embraced if they fit within a .articular idea of femininity this presents a new idea about motherhood that i think we need to pay attention to and it suggest that conservative actors are actually adapting to a changing environment. in the upcoming elections, we may see a sudden -- a subtle shift. and it might help to soften the image of the republican party. it has been shown to be much more masculinized, less friendly to women's interest, and so on. about mothersalk in politics might affect the republican party in that way. conservative politi

except for tax breaks for businesses that offer flextime and so on. there's also very little discussion about class differences among men and women and equal parenting. conservative women have recognized and they did say to me there is a change in family dynamics and ultimately, gender role ideology. conservative women themselves are actually expanding ideas about what legitimate gender roles are for conservatives, not in ways that are identical to what feminist do. conservative women's groups -- conservative mothers are embraced if they fit within a particular idea of femininity. this presents a new idea about motherhood that i think we need to pay attention to and it suggest that conservative actors are actually adapting to a changing environment. in the upcoming elections, we may see a subtle shift. and it might help to soften the image of the republican party. it has been shown to be much more masculinized, less friendly to women's interest, and so on. the way they talk about mothers in politics might affect the republican party in that way. conse

people who have been waiting around, maybe have a flextime to get in. they are going to find this. go out to live pictures. you can see the bay bridge toll plaza traffic is getting better. it's -- we don't ask questions when things like this happen. no problems on the upper deck of the bay bridge. also this morning, the san mateo bridge traffic looks good. often we have slow traffic at the end of the commute. the traffic continues to look good. we've been looking at 680 southbound, still slow from concord to walnut creek. but the antioch commute has evened out, even the 80 commute is much better than it normally is. traffic on southbound 680 into san ramon. it's a little sluggish. let's go to steve. >>> brian drake tweeted me. with this facebook and twitter, i barely time to do weather. he asked why the light around the moon? the ice crystals create that. higher clouds are there. the patchy fog is there. the rain is not there. it won't get here. total for san francisco, again, i will show this one more time for the calendar year, i'm sure we'll show it again before the end of the y

what we should be having in terms of public policy are actually flextime and compensatory time.ome of that is allowed in the public sector. so there has to be much more flexible work policies for a more mobile, more flexible workforce. >> which will benefit women and men. >> i do want to just point out, i just don't want to miss this, you asked the question about paid maternity leave. not only do we not have paid maternity leave, but precisely at the same moment that these employment trends are occurring around questions of gender, as you indicated. more women with college educations, not only are we not sort of expanding the capacity of women to make choices about their reproductive lives and family lives, we're actually limiting them. so at precisely the same time, state legislature across the country are limiting the capacity of women to make family planning choices in everything from the availability of birth control to the coverage, even of -- in private insurance as we saw in michigan this week, of termination services. so i recognize that all those family planning are ver