A Quote by Barack Obama

Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
American - President
Born: August 4, 1961

Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work.

Barack Obama

Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.

Alice S Rossi

The women tennis pros don't really want equal pay for equal work. They want equal pay for inferior work.

Stephen Moore

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Barbara Mikulski

I believe men and women should get equal pay for equal work.

Satya Nadella

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

Karen Morley

I think we should have equal work for equal pay for women all over the world.

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

Karen Morley

Now 'pay equity' has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It’s based on the vague notion of 'equal pay for work of equal value,' which is not the same as equal pay for the same job.

Stephen Harper

What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.

Betty Ford

Making sure women get equal pay for equal work remains one of my top priorities.

Jan Schakowsky

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Susan B. Anthony

I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.