Groups launch new initiative for women’s equality

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'At a symposium here House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., influential Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., top Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett, speakers from the Service Employees and other allies declared the start of a grass-roots national campaign to enact the "Fair Shot: A Plan For Women And Families To Get Ahead."

That campaign, said Center for American Progress executive director Neera Tamden, recognizes the only way to move issues through a gridlocked Congress is to shove lawmakers with mobilized popular support. The Center was the sponsor of the Sept. 18 rollout of Fair Shot.

Pelosi, the keynote speaker, had unveiled a Democratic women's economic agenda last month, with support of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, among others. Both that agenda and the new Fair Shot campaign go far beyond concentration on reproductive rights to embrace pay equity, good jobs and a just economy.
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The resolution pledged unions to "continue the fight to raise the minimum wage and close the wage gap," along with greater job training and educational opportunities for women - especially in sectors, such as construction, which are traditionally male - and "to make wage and benefit standards more transparent."'