We tried so hard. 

I’m talking about women my age and older who sought professional jobs in fields that had once been dominated by men. We exhausted ourselves in the 1970s and ‘80s working full-time, balancing careers and family, determined that no one would ever see us as the weaker sex.

We labored long hours - often staying later than our male counterparts - and we sought the toughest assignments. We didn’t whine and complain when we got them.

Oh, and we did it without wives (or stay-at-home husbands) to prepare our meals, do our laundry or field calls from the school nurse.

“I need a wife,” we’d occasionally grumble under our breath when we heard one of our male co-workers telling his wife what he wanted for dinner.

But at the end of the day we didn’t want anyone cooking for us. We wanted to be taken seriously. 

Now this.

Several high-profile female Biden administration members seem determined to reverse decades of progress by making it impossible for anyone to take them seriously. I’m talking about CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Let’s look at Walensky first.

There she was at a press briefing this week, doing her best to gin up Covid hysteria. At one point she  choked back tears, saying “right now I’m scared” and yapping about her “feelings of impending doom.”
Feelings? 

Lady, no one cares about your feelings. You’re supposed to be a scientist. Act like one. This is NOT how scientists talk. In fact, “doom” is not in their lexicon. They don’t act on hunches or feelings.

They definitely don’t tear up at press briefings.

Honestly.

As the head of the Centers For Disease Control, would it kill Walensky to exude a little confidence and optimism? After all, 72% of Americans over the age of 65 have gotten at least their first Covid shot, more than 2 million Americans a day are getting the vaccine and Covid deaths are down 23% in the U.S. in the past two weeks, according to The New York Times.

Couldn’t she refrain from whimpering about being scared?

In fact, if she really is frightened, Walensky ought to hand over the CDC directorship to someone who can cope with a slight uptick in Covid cases without coming down with a case of the vapors.

Then there’s the vice president. There’s a reason Kamala Harris was down around 2 percent in the polls when she dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

Even Democrats couldn’t stand her inappropriate, slightly insane, cackle.

Harris giggles like a little girl at the most inappropriate moments. How did someone who acts like that ever succeed as a prosecutor?

Did she snicker her way through murder and rape trials?

Yet there she was earlier this week, talking about kids being out of school and guffawing about how hilarious it was that parents had been forced to stay home and educate their children.

Cracking up over the misery inflicted on American families as a result of unnecessary school closures is heartless.

Millions of parents have watched their children become withdrawn and depressed this past year. Many kids have become mentally ill or have committed suicide. These families don’t find their situations funny.

Beyond that, it’s  been estimated that more than 1 million women had to leave their jobs to care for children who were not in school due to shutdowns.

As early as last fall, The American Spectator reported that school closures  were disproportionately hurting women.

“Four times as many women as men dropped out of the labor force in September, roughly 865,000 women compared with 216,000 men,” AS reported in October

This validates predictions that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women—and the accompanying child care and school crises—would be severe. 

In July, a Washington Post article—titled, “Coronavirus child-care crisis will set women back a generation”—pointed out that “[o]ne out of four women who reported becoming unemployed during the pandemic said it was because of a lack of child care—twice the rate among men.” In August, CNN ran the headline, “Working mothers are quitting to take care of their kids, and the US job market may never be the same.”

Then again, if someone had pointed that out to Harris the veep probably would have dissolved in weird laughter.

These two females need to grow up - stop crying and cackling - and act like pros.

Instead of little girls.