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Issue Position: Building a Family-Friendly Economy

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Women Employment and Affirmative Action Reproduction Family

Growing income inequality hits women very hard. Women make up half the workforce today, but our workplace policies do not make it easy for women to balance their jobs and family responsibilities.Women make only 78 cents to the dollar men earn. I am proud to have been a strong participant and co-sponsor for the Pay Equity Act passed in 2018. We have also made good progress by passing an initiative to increase the minimum wage and requiring paid sick days for workers. Legislatively we established a paid family leave program that will allow families to care for their children and take care of their sick loved ones.

Looking to the future: With a changing work world with more gig jobs, we need to work on a system to provide flexible benefits and reduce mis-classification of workers. manweb1.jpg

It is absolutely essential that women maintain the right to access birth control and the full range of reproductive options, including abortion.


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