UNDATED (AP) Hillary Clinton focused on so-called “work-life balance” issues on Monday, May 9, when she campaigned in northern Virginia.
She has been targeting white women — a demographic group that President Barack Obama lost — in her early effort to defeat Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Her campaign believes women, particularly those in battleground states, will be turned off by his history of sexist statements.
Clinton highlighted her support for increased family leave and equal pay at an event with parents in a coffee shop in suburban Loudoun County — a battleground county outside Washington where the votes of affluent women are critical.
“We need to really start looking at these programs from the lens of what life is like today and not what it was like 50 years ago,” she said.
Clinton said the problems facing families today are “just harder” than the ones she dealt with as a young lawyer in Arkansas trying to raise her daughter, Chelsea.
“Costs are greater, everything from commuting time to feeling like if you take that vacation day, you are going to be viewed as slacking off,” she said.
