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Carolyn Maloney

Carolyn Bosher Maloney (born Carolyn Jane Bosher; February 19, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for New York's 12th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

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I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

Believe, Leave, Paid, Sick

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

Constitution, Guaranteed, Language, Men, Mentioned, Rights

I think that changing stereotypes and attitudes, it takes time. As we progress and we have more women astronauts and more women in construction sites and everything else, then we're making progress. Discrimination is deeply embedded in our community, but we do have the tools to combat it.

Astronauts, Attitude, Attitudes, Changing, Community, Thinking

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.

Boards, Ceo, Congress, Part, Percent, Unfair

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Bank Accounts, Easy, Horror Stories, Story, Tell

Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

Badass, Birth, Healthy, Mean, Mom, Woman

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.

Children, Home, Mother, Thinking, Tremendous, Workforce

My idea is that we've worked so many years for equality, but the only area where we've achieved equality, with men, is in job loss. We are still 77 cents to the dollar.

Dollar, Loss, Men, Worked

I asked, "What do you think the most important advancement was for women in recent years?" And the majority, the item that polled the most, was Hillary Clinton's run for President. Can you believe that? Women saw that as a breakthrough in something very, very important. She didn't win. And I think another thing that her race did was it showed sexism in our society.

Running, Believe, Winning, Society, Sexism, Win

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

Afford, Daughter, Ensure, Interpretation, Mother, Rights

We're going to school for higher education in higher numbers, but the numbers still show we're not breaking though the glass ceiling. For every Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton there are millions of women stuck in cement on the floor that are not getting up.

Clinton, Higher Education, Pelosi, School, Stuck, Women

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.

Appropriately, Care, Changed, Child, Children, Support

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

Concept, Equally, Law, Men, Proposal, Women

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.

Fall, Incidentally, Make, Progress, Thinking, Years

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.

Feminist, Hard, Progress, Sports, Vote

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.

Cedaw, Convention, Country, Fighting, Thinking, United

Usually women are the lynchpins of the family. They carry the brunt of the work at home and of being mothers and of taking care of the children. Not always. I have a wonderful husband, who is a great father and has helped tremendously at home. And I think that men are getting in touch and I think that the role that they have is so important, to be a good father and have a good career and be a good husband. But I think that as more and more women go into the workforce, you have to have more help at home and it becomes more of a sharing of responsibilities.

Carry, Children, Home, Husband, Mother, Usually

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.

Children, Constituents, Country, Helping, Passed, Talks

Because it's important. Laws can be reversed, Supreme Court decisions can be overturned, gender classifications can continue.

Classifications, Decision, Decisions, Important, Law, Overturned

In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.

America, Law, Long, Meant, Protections

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