Subject: CTR TALKING POINTS: HILLARY CLINTON: CHAMPION OF EQUAL PAY
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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 14:14:18 -0500
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*TALKING POINTS:  HILLARY CLINTON: CHAMPION OF EQUAL PAY*

*Secretary Clinton’s record on equal pay is an insight into her core values
– her belief that every American, regardless of gender, should be able to
earn an equal day’s pay for an equal day’s work. By virtue of hard work and
fair play, all Americans should have the opportunity to live the American
Dream.*

Hillary Clinton Pushed
<http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-a-fighter-for-equal-pay/> for
Equal Pay Legislation:

-          In the Senate, Hillary Clinton championed the fight for paycheck
fairness, introducing the Paycheck Fairness Act in 2005 and 2007 to help
prevent and eliminate paycheck discrimination.

-          Senator Clinton fought to expand workers’ rights to take pay
discrimination issues to court.  She was an original co-sponsor of the
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.

Hillary Clinton Bypassed
<http://correctrecord.org/hillary-clinton-a-fighter-for-equal-pay/> Congress
to Fight for Pay Equity:

-          Senator Clinton worked directly with young women to help them be
paid equally for equal work.  Senator Clinton published a guide for young
professional women on getting equal pay, titled, “Know How to Ask & Know
Your Rights: A Pay Equity Guide on How to Help Yourself in the Workplace.”

-          Senator Clinton pushed the Bush Administration to enforce equal
pay laws by calling for an investigation into their enforcement of equal
pay.  The investigation found that the Bush Administration was not
monitoring the enforcement of pay equity laws.

Hillary Clinton Fought for Equal Pay Worldwide:

-          As First Lady, Clinton went
<http://www.un.org/esa/gopher-data/conf/fwcw/conf/gov/950905175653.txt> to
China and spoke forcefully about wage disparities.  It was there that she
famously said, “women’s rights are human rights.” Clinton pointed to wage
inequities as a problem that needed to be solved:* “Families rely on women
for labor in the home; and increasingly, families rely on women for income
needed to raise healthy children and care for other relatives. As long as
discrimination and inequities remain so commonplace around the world - as
long as girls and women are valued less, fed less, fed last, overworked,
underpaid, not schooled and subjected to violence in and out of their homes
- the potential of the human family to create a peaceful, prosperous world
will not be realized.”*

-          As the Secretary of State, Clinton launched
<http://correctrecord.org/breaking-glass-womens-economic-empowerment/> the
Equal Futures Partnership to fight for women’s political and economic
empowerment.

-          Secretary Clinton asked
<http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/189379.pdf> U.S. embassies to
help “unleash the potential of women to spur economic development.”