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Women continue receiving less salary for the same kind of job. Women have a higher unemployment rate in our country. When you analyze the composition of poverty, you will find that most of the families in poverty are being run by a woman.

Because there still exists a significant pay gap, women tend to earn less than men over the course of their lifetimes. Compounding the problem, women tend to spend less time in the workforce than men.

The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

There are millions of women who are trapped in lower-paying jobs and don't have the skills for a higher-paying job, and don't have the money or the time to access the higher education that they need for a better job.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes economic sense, and growth is improved. There are countries where it's almost a no-brainer: Korea, Japan, soon to be China, certainly Germany, Italy. Why? Because they have an aging population.