I think she's talking about both fathers and mothers, and about societal models, as Lakoff does. I think that his model (not for how society works, but how society is thought ought to work, by people of different political persuasions) is, to be ungenerous, very badly flawed.

That said, it does lead to some interesting descriptions and suggestions for what he calls "framing" of political issues. (I'd call it "spinning madly," myself, but I've observed in my own political work that the opposition is often very good at framing/spinning, and find my own side remarkably weak at it, all too often.)