MALDEN, MA — In case you missed it, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) published an op-ed in the Boston Globe calling out Mike Johnson’s misogyny and Republicans’ anti-woman, anti-family policies. 

You can read the entire op-ed HERE or below: 

Mike Johnson’s war on women
 
Representative Katherine Clark of Massachusetts is the House Democratic Whip.
 
"Amid all the political chaos in these final weeks of 2025, House Republicans have broken into another civil war. This one is personal — with Speaker Mike Johnson facing brutal accusations of misogyny from his own party members, even as he claims to be women’s “biggest champion.”
 
"'He sidelines us and doesn’t take us seriously,' Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said.
 
"Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina said, 'Women will never be taken seriously until leadership decides to take us seriously, and I’m no longer holding my breath.'
 
"They’re being generous.
 
"Johnson isn’t just a sexist boss. As a party leader and as a policymaker, he has systematically made life harder and more expensive for all women.
 
"This is someone who has never been shy about his thoughts on gender.
 
"He has, in public and on camera, blamed school shootings on no-fault divorce and 'radical feminism.'
 
"He has referred to abortion as 'a Holocaust.'
 
"Just a few weeks ago, he casually talked about the difference between the brains of men and women: 'Men and women are different in this way, is that men can compartmentalize things.'
 
"In the same interview, he praised Conference Chair Lisa McClain — the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House — as the colleague he trusts most to make him dinner.
 
"That low opinion of GOP women is plainly reflected in how he runs the House.
 
"Under Johnson’s speakership, there are more Republican committee chairs named Mike than women chairs combined.
 
"He raged against a bipartisan bill allowing members of Congress who are pregnant or recovering from childbirth to vote by proxy. But when asked about a male colleague’s domestic abuse allegations, he shrugged off the question and said: 'I’ve been a little busy.'
 
"This disdain for women is also shaping the actual policies that Johnson gavels through the House.
 
"This year alone, he has shepherded legislation closing down maternity wards, banning reproductive care for American servicewomen, and mandating creepy gender inspections for young girls who want to play sports.
 
"Even as he joined in on the White House’s new obsession with birth rates, he helped cut $1 trillion from Medicaid — a program that pays for 41 percent of births in America.
 
"He helped engineer an economy so catastrophic for regular families that at least 450,000 women have left the workforce.
 
"He looked at a country where moms’ child-care costs can outpace their rent, then wrote a budget that manages to make it even more expensive.
 
"He saw a third of single mothers going hungry, then enacted unprecedented cuts to federal food assistance.
 
"He supported a poll tax on married women — a bill requiring married women who took their spouse’s last name to get a $165 passport before they can vote.
 
"Yes, Mike Johnson has weird, retrograde views on women. But it’s so much worse. His leadership is a threat to the health and security that should be our daughters’ birthright."

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