Keeping women poor while denying them equal rights is not much different than keeping women poor while advocating for their rights.
He means that for all their lofty rhetoric, the democrats don't do anything for women, just like those evil rethuglicans.
Of course that also applies to black people in a way, almost. Democrats want to
give poor people just enough to subsist on, and keep their votes, but not improve their lives unless it comes from Uncle Sugar.
Conservative would rather give poor people a hand to where they can make it on their own.