Pelosi: ‘Our success as a nation really depends on our success of women’

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'In a meeting with reporters on Capitol Hill, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) rolled out on Thursday what they called a campaign to economic issues important to women.

“Our success as a nation really depends on our success of women,” Pelosi said to reporters. “And this is something that has to be unleashed in a more important way than it has.”

The agenda, named “When Women Succeed, America Succeeds: An Economic Agenda for Women and Families” hones in on three key principles the four congresswomen — Pelosi, DeLauro, Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) and Rep. Doris Matsu (D-CA) — view as essential to women’s economic success: Equal pay for equal work, emphasis on the work-family balance, including paid sick leave, and adequate funding for child care.
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“We want to have many more women in Congress,” Pelosi said. “I keep saying, if you reduce the role of money in politics and increase the level of civility, you’d have more women in Congress, and that would be a very wholesome thing for our society, in terms of successes we can have for women.”'