[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 8, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H2999-H3000]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             EQUAL PAY DAY

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of Equal Pay Day.
  Fifty-one years ago, the Equal Pay Act was signed into law. Still, 
women

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in my home State of Hawaii, where women have traditionally been part of 
the workforce--like my two grandmothers who worked in the sugarcane 
fields--still earn 82 cents to the dollar earned by a man.
  Equal pay is not just a woman's issue. It is a family and a community 
issue. Women are one-half of the paid workforce. Two-thirds of the 
women are either primary or cobreadwinners for their families, but 
women are two-thirds of the workforce who are earning minimum wage.
  Closing the wage gap cuts poverty in half, and women and their 
families then benefit. Nearly half a trillion dollars is then added to 
our economy.
  Remember, the President said, when women succeed, America succeeds.
  Please bring H.R. 377, the Paycheck Fairness Act, to the floor.

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