I Believe Very Strongly In Paid Sick

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.

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.

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.

Where Are The Women? The Women Are Here.

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.