Act Quote by Jackie Speier

It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer…

— Mike Honda

President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one…

— Rosa DeLauro

“The Institute for Women’s Policy Research in the United States estimates that in 2015 women working full time earned only seventy-nine cents for every…

— Angela Saini

When we talk about equal pay for equal work, women in the workplace are beginning to catch up. If we keep going at this…

— Lya Sorano

We have required under law for years that men and women get paid equal money for equal work. But we've faced challenges enforcing that…

— Lois Frankel

It's going to take from 40 to 118 years for the pay gap to close for women if we just go along with the…

— Patricia Arquette

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and…

— Barack Obama

It's 2014, and women are still paid less than men. Does this suggest that a gender pay gap is an unfortunately permanent fixture? Will…

— Sendhil Mullainathan

While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average…

— John F. Kennedy

The pay gap is a myth, and the pay gap is something that the White House used in 2012 to get Barack Obama elected.…

— Katie Pavlich

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem,…

— Steve Israel

It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.

— Valerie Jarrett