While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.
While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.
When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.
In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.