Kirsten Gillibrand Women Quotations

When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.

The brave men and women who have served - and those who continue to serve - our armed forces have selflessly sacrificed for our nation, and we owe it to them to provide the best services and protections available when they're overseas and after they return home.

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.

I'm fighting to make childcare more affordable for working parents so they can continue working and advancing their careers, closing wage gaps that for too long have held women back from the fair economic opportunities they need.

For me, getting off the sidelines means women making a difference by letting their voices be heard on the issues they care about.

Discriminatory wage practices undermine women's ability to provide for their families and survive on a decent retirement income.

For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system.

Instead of marginalizing women, Congress must get to work on policies that can foster job creation and fuel economic growth.

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.

Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.