Political Quotes

“I very much appreciate it. It will take just a couple of minutes. These are the women that came. One my colleagues may have read about, a woman from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is a molecular biologist who is at the top, who never dreamed of herself as a victim of discrimination, at the top at MIT of a tenured professor, the top of the scale. Then she found out that she was making 20 percent less than men who had come at the same time, had done the same amount of work, and she talked to other women, found 14 other tenured women had precisely the same circumstance. To MIT's credit, instead of becoming defensive, MIT said, ``Let us do a study. We're scientists, let us study,'' and have been decided to bring up the women's pay. That is the example, it seems to me, that we want to put forward. Sanya Tyler who is the head women's coach, basketball coach, at Howard University sued Howard University. She now compliments Howard University because our university has now moved forward to rectify a situation where the only team that was winning was the girls' basketball team, and yet they had disparities in everything from facilities to her own pay. Her pay was brought up, and again the employer has moved forward instead of becoming defensive.”