Lois Frankel: “This week, we marked Equal Pay Day, which is the day more than 3 months into the year when women's earnings finally…”

“This week, we marked Equal Pay Day, which is the day more than 3 months into the year when women's earnings finally catch up to men's from the previous year. Mr. Speaker, it all adds up--$430,000. That is how much the average income loss is for a woman throughout her career as a result of this unfair wage gap. This means our mothers and our grandmothers get less for their retirement security, and there are more of them in poverty. Inequality hurts the heart and it hurts the pocketbook. It hurts women and their families. That is why we need paycheck fairness, affordable child care, paid family leave, and retirement security. When women succeed, America succeeds. ____________________”