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Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to ensure fair pay for women in the workplace. In addition, he succeeded in getting a…

— Kitty Kelley

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

— Barbara Mikulski

We have held forums here at the White House on workplace flexibility, and the first major bill signed into law by President Obama was…

— Valerie Jarrett

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities…

— Lilly Ledbetter

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

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

Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent…

— Jackie Speier

President Obama has called for economic and political empowerment of women globally. The Equal Futures Partnership promotes removal of policy, legal, and regulatory barriers…

— Lael Brainard

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

— Hillary Clinton

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can…

— Jimmy Carter

Few politicians did much to move the needle toward anything resembling gender equality, but it was President Nixon who first threw women under the…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Instituting equal pay is especially important because families in our country increasingly rely on women's wages to make ends meet. When women bring home…

— Jan Schakowsky