McMorris Rodgers does not know job market

Reading the lead article (“Confrontational conversation with Cathy”) in the Cheney Free Press last week, I was repulsed and infuriated at McMorris Rodgers’s remarks about girls “not imagining themselves in higher paying fields and wanting only jobs where they work as a team and have long term impacts.”

What is wrong with Ms. McMorris Rodgers? She must know nothing of the job market. Science, engineering, math and technology (STEM) are jobs for long-term impacts for our future and done with team efforts. Ms. McMorris Rodgers clearly doesn’t understand the need for these new creative ideas. Girls are more than willing and interested in all work when given the chance — and the money.

Ms. McMorris Rodgers fails to understand women do “imagine” themselves in good paying jobs.

Before Lilly Ledbetter there was little hope for equal pay for equal work for females. The Equal Pay Act now allows women to “imagine” good paying jobs in all venues. Ms. McMorris Rodgers is wrong and displays a blatant disregard for women’s capabilities. Her grasp and lack of understanding of women in the 21st century is unconscionable.

Mary Daugharty

Cheney