Obama keeps focus on fight for women's equality
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
WASHINGTON – Father of two girls, President Barack Obama says he wants to improve the status of women in the United States.
Women are more likely than men to graduate from college today, yet earn less on average, face a greater chance of living in poverty and are outnumbered in critical subjects such as math and science, he said in his weekly radio and online address Saturday.
“Achieving equality and opportunity for women isn’t just important to me as president. It’s something I care about deeply as the father of two daughters who wants to see his girls grow up in a world where there are no limits to what they can achieve,” he said.
Obama noted that one of his first acts as president was to sign legislation allowing women who’ve been discriminated against in their salaries to have their day in court.
Obama said he was disappointed when the Senate blocked action on a proposal that would treat gender discrimination involving pay in the same as race, disability and age discrimination.
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