Expanding access to paid leave would help families across Country balance needs at home and at work.

This is a public health imperative that businesses that are eligible for that tax credit use it and that other businesses give workers paid sick days for the vaccination.

As we have discussed today, caregiving obligations disproportionately fall to women and can impact the number of women in the workforce.

The demand for caregiving is likely to only grow as our population is aging.

I just think you will need to have some flexibility there and supports available.

According to the retirement confidence survey, 38 percent of divorced women have less than $1,000 saved for retirement, and 42 percent of never-married women.

Enhancing the survivor benefit... would be really important.

I also think it is important to have portable retirement benefits so that when women do leave the workforce, they are able to take their benefits with them.

I think that a--first, a focus on Social Security is really essential because that is the primary retirement vehicle for most Americans, including most women.

I think paid family leave is a big factor here, as well as just the access gap that we have been talking about all morning.

Every worker should be able to save enough to cover their expenses during their retirement years, but we are here today because we know that's not always the case.

I think this Congress can act to make it easy for employers to offer incentives, like in a match, an emergency savings account.