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.

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States.

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

Where are the women? The women are here.

While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.

I think in a society where you can't even pass the Equal Rights Amendment, it's very difficult to women make a progress. Incidentally, we are exactly 160 years after the very first women's public rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, when a handful of women started it all and began the movement to make women equal.

We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long as women are not universally defended under our Constitution. As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.