[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4825]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EQUAL PAY DAY

  (Ms. FRANKEL of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, today, Tuesday, April 9, is 
Equal Pay Day because it symbolizes how far in 2013 women must work in 
order to make what their male counterparts earned in 2012. This means 
that it took more than 3 months in 2013 for women's wages to finally 
catch up to what men were paid in 2012.
  For working mothers who have to put food on the table and the retired 
women whose income is tied to their former salary, the wage gap means 
real dollars.
  Listen to this. In south Florida, if the wage gap was eliminated, a 
working woman would have enough money for 51 more weeks of food, 3 
months more of mortgage and utility payments, 5 more months of rent, or 
1,600 additional gallons of gas.
  Equal pay is about fairness and it's about families.

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