Ann Callis Quotes

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.

I am a fierce advocate for the economic empowerment of all women. In the Congress, I am one of the leaders of an initiative called 'When Women Succeed, America Succeeds.' It is an economic agenda for women aimed at making sure women have equal pay for equal work, paid sick leave, and affordable child care.

We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

Equal pay, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare - everywhere I go around the United States, as I talk to working families, these are the issues they raise... We have over 43 million Americans who don't have a single day of sick leave, but everybody gets sick. Everybody's children get sick.

At a time when families are incredibly squeezed, it's essential that we provide a living wage for people who work hard and that women realize equal pay for the work they're doing.

Equal pay for equal work is a fundamental concept of labor agreements.

Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refused to address issues critical to hard-working American women.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.

Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

I have done a great deal of work; as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keeping up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay... Women work in the field and do as much work, but do not get the pay. We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.

Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work. This should be done as quickly as possible.

As president, my father will change the labor laws put in place when women were not a significant portion of the workforce. He will make childcare affordable and accessible to all. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right alongside of him.

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

I think it's incredibly important to spend the first year with your child, and it should be made possible for all women.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

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

I've always believed in equal pay for equal work.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

We'd certainly have paid leave already by now, we'd have equal pay, we'd have a living minimum wage - a lot of things would change having that diversity of opinion in Washington. We certainly wouldn't be debating whether women should have access to birth control.