[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 48 (Thursday, April 28, 1994)]
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                OPENING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR DAUGHTERS

  (Ms. HARMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HARMAN. Mr. Speaker, my 9-year-old daughter, Justine, joined me 
at work today. She is the youngest of my four children, and her older 
sister, Hilary, is a freshwoman at Princeton.
  The professional world Justine enters after she graduates from 
college in 2006--or even the world Hilary enters in 1997--will be very 
different from what was available to me as a 24-year-old law school 
graduate in 1969.
  A major reason why the workplace is and will be different has much to 
do with courageous women who fought and refought so many battles for 
equality for women.
  I was pleased to play a part in this fight, as a young lawyer who 
wrote a landmark appeal for the Women's Legal Defense Fund, as an 
advocate in the Carter White House for extension of time to ratify the 
equal rights amendment, and as an initial cosponsor and passionate 
supporter of the Freedom of Choice Act, the Family and Medical Leave 
Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinics Act and legislation to promote 
gender, workplace, and health equity for women.
  Women taking our place at the table as equals. This is what the 
election of more women to public office means. I am honored to serve 
and to help open up infinite opportunities for Justine, Hilary and all 
our daughters.

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