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

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.

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.

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

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

I believe the person who was out conquering the world, who was out fighting in the world were our fathers, so to have them come... I adored my father more than anyone in the world, but my father had more advice on work policies and how to get a job and how to survive in the work environment than my mother because my mother never worked outside of the home. So I think the support of fathers is very important.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.