11/01/2008
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"That's why so many of us are here today, because of the women who came before us who were determined to see us sit in the high seats. Women who reached for the balance and raised families and traveled..."
"One of the first women bank vice presidents in the state of Hawaii but I also saw how she hit a glass ceiling."
"Women still earn just 78 cents for every dollar men make. Women are more than half of our population but just 17 percent of our Congress."
"Taxing employee health benefits is the largest middle-class tax increase in history."