In America, We Have Long Stood By

When I Started Working, Women Were Working At 59 Cents To The Dollar. We Got A Raise, But It's Still Unfair. We're Still 16 Percent Of Congress, Even Though We're 51 Percent Of The Population. We're A Low Percentage Of Our Ceos. We're A Low Percentage Of Boards And Being Part Of Boards.

While Men's Rights Are Guaranteed By Specific Language In The Constitution, Women's Equal Rights Aren't Mentioned.

One Of My Mentors Was Patricia Schroeder, And One Night She Came To Me On The Floor And She Said To Me, "why Are We Sitting In Congress, When A Lot Of Women Would Try To Do It And Couldn't? Why Are We Here And Others Aren't?" And I Thought Back And Said It Was Because My Father Believed In Me And She Said The Same Thing, She Said Her Father Believed In Her And Thought She Could Do Anything.

More Women Are Working Because They Have To, That's What It Takes To Put The Food On The Table And Pay The Rent. And Yet We Have Not Changed Our Policies To Support The Family. The Right Wing Goes To The Floor, And They Did When They Were In Power, And Talk About Family Values. Well, Where Are They? Family Values Is Support For Child Care. Family Values Is Equal Pay For Equal Work So That Women Are Paid Appropriately.

We Have Not Ratified The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Among Women. I Think 194 Countries Have Signed Onto It, But The United States Has Not. And Cedaw To The United Nations Is What The Equal Rights Amendment Or The Women's Equality Amendment Is To The United States. I Think We Should Pass The Women's Equality Amendment And A Lot Of These Other Fights Would Go Away.