Second gentleman Doug Emhoff met with Angel City leaders Wednesday to support a franchise 'doing the right thing' investing in women's sports.
For Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman of the United States, gender inequity isn’t complicated. It’s simply wrong. “It’s not right. It’s not fair,” he said Wednesday during a brief visit to the practice facility for Angel City FC, the NWSL team that trains at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. “It’s actually discrimination,” he said. “There is a misconception out there that if somehow a woman is succeeding, some guy out there is not. That’s not true. Women succeed, we all get lifted up.
It’s across the entire workforce, talking about women’s access, family leave, parental leave, child care, affordable child care, valuing some of the some of the jobs that are traditionally held by women.” Emhoff is a soccer fan, having met with the Chelsea women’s team last fall before attending the NWSL Challenge Cup in March. That has made it easy to match his passion with his purpose.
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