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Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

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.

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

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

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

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.

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask.

In addition to being an economic security issue, the failure to pay women a salary that's equal to men for equal work is also a women's health issue. The fact is that the salary women are paid directly impacts the type of health care services they are able to access for both themselves and their families.

I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.

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