[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3750-3751]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

  (Ms. HAHN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. HAHN. Madam Speaker, this month we join together as a nation to 
celebrate Women's History Month. We pay tribute to the generation of 
women whose courage, perseverance, and leadership have helped build our 
great Nation--from everyday working mothers

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to women like civil rights icon Rosa Parks and labor activist Dolores 
Huerta. Our journey would not be possible without these great women and 
so many others who proudly took the seat at the table and at the front 
of the bus to chart the way for our Nation's progress.
  But, while progress has been made in gender equality, we still have a 
lot more work to do when two-thirds of the minimum wage workers are 
women in this country and nearly one-third of families headed by a 
single female are living in poverty.
  Instead of simply using Women's History Month to highlight the 
contributions of women leaders, let's take this opportunity to examine 
the current challenges facing our mothers, our sisters, and our 
daughters and ensure that these women have workplace protections such 
as equal pay, affordable child care, and medical leave.
  Our success as a nation hinges on the success of women, because we 
know that when women succeed, America succeeds.

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