Of course women will be affected as active participants in the workforce. I fail to see where the gender has anything to do with it. Both men and women, who are in the same income brackets, will be affected equally. The same goes for those who will be put out of work. Tax increases will slow the economy and will cost jobs. It always has and many of those jobs will be held by women. I also find it very interesting to hear all of these folks complaining now that their taxes went up Jan. 1 and their paychecks are now smaller. They though tax increases were for the "rich". Well, welcome to the real world. Look around, you may now be "The Rich".