Where Are The Women? The

In My Research, I Found That Since 1979, Women Have Lost The Equivalent To One Night's Sleep Due To The Pressures Of Balancing Work And Family. And As More Women Have Gone Into The Work Force Because They Have To, And When You Discriminate Against A Woman's Pay You Discriminate Against Her Children Or Her Husband Or Her Significant Other In Terms Of What The Family Income Is.

In America, We Have Long Stood By The Principle That The Protections Of The Law Are Not Meant Just For Some.

We Need A Mayor Who Knows How To Balance A Budget, Who Understands The Urgency Of Delivering All The Services That A Great City Needs, Who Understand The Need Of Working Families.

Healthy Moms Mean Healthy Families. When My Republican Colleagues Held A Hearing About Birth Control And Refused To Include A Single Woman On The First Panel As A Witness, I Asked, "where Are The Women?"

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.