Carolyn Maloney Quotes

I Think In A Society Where You Can't Even Pass The Equal Rights Amendment, It's Very Difficult To Women Make A Progress. Incidentally, We Are Exactly 160 Years After The Very First Women's Public Rights Convention In Seneca Falls, New York, When A Handful Of Women Started It All And Began The Movement To Make Women Equal.

We Have Not Ratified The Convention On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Among Women. I Think 194 Countries Have Signed Onto It, But The United States Has Not. And Cedaw To The United Nations Is What The Equal Rights Amendment Or The Women's Equality Amendment Is To The United States. I Think We Should Pass The Women's Equality Amendment And A Lot Of These Other Fights Would Go Away.

In My Research, I Found That Since 1979, Women Have Lost The Equivalent To One Night's Sleep Due To The Pressures Of Balancing Work And Family. And As More Women Have Gone Into The Work Force Because They Have To, And When You Discriminate Against A Woman's Pay You Discriminate Against Her Children Or Her Husband Or Her Significant Other In Terms Of What The Family Income Is.

As More Women Have Gone Into The Workforce, They Find It Harder To Be A Good Mother And A Good Worker. When I Go Into The Office, I Always Feel Guilty. I'm Thinking About The Children. When I'm At Home, I'm Thinking About My Work. So You're Always Under Tremendous Pressure. Women Feel Very Stressed. They Feel Like They're Working Harder And Harder And Harder. And Society Is Not Really Helping Them.

More Women Are Working Because They Have To, That's What It Takes To Put The Food On The Table And Pay The Rent. And Yet We Have Not Changed Our Policies To Support The Family. The Right Wing Goes To The Floor, And They Did When They Were In Power, And Talk About Family Values. Well, Where Are They? Family Values Is Support For Child Care. Family Values Is Equal Pay For Equal Work So That Women Are Paid Appropriately.

I Have Always Been Supported By The Men In My Life, Which Is Why I Think I've Been Successful In Many Of My Endeavors. My Father Believed I Could Do Anything. He Even Wrote To Al Gore And Told Him That He Thought I Should Be His Vice President.

One Of My Mentors Was Patricia Schroeder, And One Night She Came To Me On The Floor And She Said To Me, "why Are We Sitting In Congress, When A Lot Of Women Would Try To Do It And Couldn't? Why Are We Here And Others Aren't?" And I Thought Back And Said It Was Because My Father Believed In Me And She Said The Same Thing, She Said Her Father Believed In Her And Thought She Could Do Anything.

When I Started Working, Women Were Working At 59 Cents To The Dollar. We Got A Raise, But It's Still Unfair. We're Still 16 Percent Of Congress, Even Though We're 51 Percent Of The Population. We're A Low Percentage Of Our Ceos. We're A Low Percentage Of Boards And Being Part Of Boards.

The Original Feminists Wanted Two Things. They Wanted The Right To Vote, From Which We Could Work To Get More Equality. And We Have Made Progress. We Did Pass The Anti-discrimination Law, Title 7, Title 9, Equality In The Workplace, Equality In Education And In Sports And In All These Other Areas. But Enforcement Is Very Hard. Changing Stereotypes Is Very Hard.

I Would Say That The Race Of Hillary Clinton Was Very Important To This Country, Because It Showed That A Woman Could Win The State, That A Woman Could Raise Money. I Think That Every Woman Is Sitting A Little Taller, Not Only In Our Own Country, But I Think Women Around The World Watch What's Happening In The United States.

You See We're A Country That Talks About Family Values. But We Haven't Passed Anything To Help Family Values Since The Family And Medical Leave Act. And The Family And Medical Leave Act Was One Of The First Things I Voted On When I Came To Congress. It Was Very Thrilling To Me, Because When My First Child Was Born, I Was Terrified Of Being Fired. When My Second Child Was Born, I Was A Member Of The City Council, And In Some Ways It Was Easier To Respond To 250 Constituents Than It Was To Respond To One Employer.

I Just Remember When My First Child Was Born I Called The Personnel Office And I Asked Them About Their Leave Policies. And They Said, "leave Policies? Women Just Leave And They Don't Come Back." And I Said, "but I Want To Come Back." They Said, "we Have No Leave Policy." And Then They Said, "why Don't You Apply For Disability?" Well, Having A Child Is Not A Disability.