Well, I THOUGHT this WAS getting in the discussion! Here we are, several women with definite views, discussing those views, and STILL we aren't seen!
Funny you don't consider THIS as part of the discussion.

Well, FYI, take the women voices here, right and left, and consider it a cross section of the educated segment of American women. Stay at home, Work out of the Home, small business owners, some privileged and some not so privileged. Young, old, Feminist, or not. Here we are. Ask us anything!

Actually, and this is one reason most scoff at Romney citing his wife as advisor, I don't believe women across the nation are telling her of their concerns about employment, and corporate goals, or any of whatever he said she said, anymore than I believed nuclear proliferation was foremost on little 9 year old Amy Carters mind.
If she is truly an average woman, (and I mean intellectually and emotionally, not financially as it's pretty well documented she isn't that) Her concerns are family oriented as in education, health care (again, I don't see her as advisor on those either as she can afford any school her kids want, and all the health care money can buy) and the related concerns, which encompass the greater neighborhood/city/state/country. When a woman speaks of education, unless she is a dolt, it's understood to mean 'the state of' because of course what affects her family affects her community.

Where a man may discuss 'life' from a business (or sports, or guy thing) perspective, the woman discusses 'life' from a family/people perspective. They are talking about the same thing, and sort of meet in the middle somewhere overlapping, but each must recognize the other's context and metaphors to understand the conversation. Women too often are dismissed in conversation, I think, because maybe they don't talk in man-business speak (and it is a man's world, still) and their speak is actually more metaphorical and encompassing than man-speak, which tends to be self centered, or internalized, (not in a bad way, just in the 'how does it affect me' kind of way)

Rush Limbaugh and his nastiness towards that young college woman is a perfect example. He kept asserting SHE was a slut and SHE wanted to have gratuitous sex with all the birth control SHE wanted. But he didn't actually listen to her did he. (or maybe he did and he's just a nasty, mean, blowhard a**hole.) She wasn't just advocating for herself, but for her fellow students and all women really. Her language told of HER experiences, but her speak was for us all, and included us all. And then what happened to her? She was shouted down by those who keep insisting they aren't warring on women, called a slut, and worse, and found no champion on the right.

Hey, do you remember how those men on the right, those in a position of power who are listened to and respected for their word, came out in her defense, decrying Limbaugh's words and praising this woman who just wanted to join in the discussion? Naw, me neither!

Women do try to join in the discussion and let their voice be heard, but often they realize it's like trying to teach a pig to dance.