Obama Says U.S. Still Has Steps to Take for Women’s Equality
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President Barack Obama said women have made great strides toward full equality with men over the past 50 years, yet more progress is needed to close an economic gender gap.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said women are still more likely than men to live in poverty, are underrepresented in math and engineering education, and earn, on average, 75 percent as much as men.