Molly Ivins talks about the GOP's commitment to helping women (middle 1/3rd of the article). A lot of the women she's talking about are sexually abused as part of their working slavery and working conditions like that promote the slavery they claim to be against.
From the article:
Access to DeLay was important. “Washington firms were desperate to hire lobbyists with connections to the new Republican leadership,” said a trade association president who works on the Hill. “They knew Abramoff was close to DeLay.”
Abramoff was also close to DeLay’s staff. He hired Ed Buckham and built one of the most lucrative accounts on Preston Gates’ books: the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. In this former American territory, women from the Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and China worked 84-hour workweeks in fenced industrial parks sewing “Made in the U.S.A.” garments. Abramoff, Buckham, and Mike Scanlon (also lured away from DeLay’s staff) doggedly fought President Bill Clinton’s efforts to impose U.S. labor law, minimum-wages, and overtime standards on the commonwealth’s employers. They even ran a successful campaign to elect an anti-labor speaker of the house for the commonwealth, and enlisted DeLay to lead a U.S. House campaign to keep working conditions there unregulated.