Tuesday, April 8th is Equal Pay Day. Hillary Clinton’s record on equal pay is an insight into her core values – her belief that every American should be able to earn an equal day’s pay for an equal day’s work. By virtue of hard work and fair pay, every American family should have the opportunity to live the American Dream.
- As First Lady, Clinton went to China and spoke forcefully about wage disparities. It was there that she famously said, “women’s rights are human rights.”
- As a U.S. Senator, Hillary Clinton fought to expand workers’ rights to take pay discrimination issues to court. She was an original co-sponsor of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.
- Hillary Clinton fought to address the gender wage gap by working to update the restitution and enforcement provisions of the ban against gender discrimination in the payment of wages. That is why, as a U.S. Senator, she introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act.
- As the Secretary of State, Clinton launched the Equal Futures Partnership to fight for women’s political and economic empowerment.
“We’ve made a lot of progress, but I hope that we’ll eventually see the end of Equal Pay Day, because the goal will have been achieved and we won’t have to have any sessions like this, where we continue to talk about it.” — Hillary Clinton, 1999