Obama calls for end to gender pay gap

Obama calls for end to gender pay gap

Obama calls for end to gender pay gap

US Admiral Barack Obama on Tuesday fabricated an animated appeal for according pay for men and women in the abode -- a gender gap that is far from accepting closed.

"Equal pay for according plan should be a axiological assumption of our economy," Obama said on what he has appointed Civic According Pay Day.

"It's a simple idea. It's a simple principle," he said at a commemoration dedicating a new civic women's adequation cairn at a Washington home that already housed the Civic Woman's Party. "But it's one area we still abatement short."

"Today, the archetypal woman who works full-time earns 79 cents for every dollar that a archetypal man makes. And the gap is even added for women of color."

The Civic Woman's Party was created by Alice Paul, a suffragist who fought through abundant of the 20th aeon for "women's political, social, and bread-and-butter adequation not just in the United States but aswell internationally," Obama said in the announcement establishing the monument.

Obama calls for end to gender pay gap

Saluting the role played by the suffragists who formed from the Sewall-Belmont House, amid not far from Capitol Hill and the Supreme Court, Obama said he hoped the anew accustomed cairn would become a attribute of women's rights.

"I wish adolescent girls and boys to appear here, 10, 20, 100 years from now, to apperceive that women fought for equality, it was not just accustomed to them," Obama said.

"I wish them to appear actuality and be afraid that there was anytime a time if women could not vote. I wish them to be afraid that there was anytime a time if women becoming beneath than men for accomplishing the aforementioned work," he added.

"I wish them to be afraid that there was anytime a time if women were awfully outnumbered in the boardroom or in Congress, that there was anytime a time if a woman had never sat in the Oval Office."

"I don't apperceive how continued it will yield to get there, but I apperceive we're accepting afterpiece to that day," he said.

Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who is allusive to become America's aboriginal changeable commander-in-chief, has fabricated according pay for according plan one of the capacity of her campaign.

On Tuesday, she appear a video on Twitter assuming an barter she had with a adolescent babe at a assemblage on the issue.

"Do you anticipate if you're admiral you'll be paid as abundant as if you were a man?" the babe asks Clinton, sparking amusement in the crowd.

"This is one of the jobs area they accept to pay you the same," the above US secretary of accompaniment replies.

"But there are so abounding examples area that doesn't happen. I'm traveling to do aggregate I can to accomplish abiding every woman in every job gets paid the aforementioned as the men who are accomplishing that job."

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