Allison Stevens, a contributor to Women’s enews, a news service which too few good men bother to read, has just reported that the hugely expanded bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues now has the power to put women’s issues on the national agenda. The caucus, which Stevens says may end up outnumbering the so-called “Blue Dog Coalition, a caucus of 44 fiscally conservative Democrats, and the New Democrat Coalition, a group of 63 pro-business Democrats,” also has the support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was a member of the caucus, which was founded in 1977.

Among the issues on their “wish list” according to Women’s Enews, are women’s health, educational equity and sex trafficking, women in prison, and international domestic violence.

All are important but will go nowhere if they don’t challenge Market Fundamentalism, the exaggerated belief and faith in the ability of markets to solve problems that have dominated our national political debate for a generation. Without directly challenging Market Fundamentalism, they will ultimately fail to improve the lives of ordinary American women and their families.

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