2022年奥巴马总统就男女同工同酬问题英语演讲稿_演讲稿.pdf

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1、1 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习奥巴马总统就男女同工同酬问题英语演讲稿 Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) All right. Well, thanks to myfriend, Lilly Ledbetter, notonly for that introduction but for fighting for asimple principle: Equal pay for equalwork. Itsnot that complicated. And, Lilly, I assure you, you remain the faceof fai

2、r pay. (Laughter.)People dont want my mug on there. (Laughter.) They want your face. As Lilly mentioned, she did notset out to be a trailblazer. She was just somebody who waswaking up every day,going to work, doing her job the best that she could. And then one day,she finds out, after years,that she

3、 earned less than her male colleagues for doing the same job.I want to make that point again. (Laughter.) Doing the same job. Sometimeswhen you - whenwe discuss this issue of fair pay, equal pay for equal work,and the pay gap between men andwomen, youll hear all sorts of excuses about,well, theyre c

4、hild -bearing, and they re choosing todo this, and they re thisand theyre that and the other. She wasdoing the same job - probablydoing better. (Laughter and applause.) Samejob. 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 1 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 2 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习W

5、orking just as hard, probablyputting inmore hours. But she wasgetting systematically paid less. And so she set out to make surethis country lived up to its founding, the idea that all of usare createdequal. And when the co urts didnt answerher call, Congress did. The first time Lilly and I stoodtoge

6、ther in this room was my tenth day in office, and that swhen we signed theLilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. (Applause.) First bill I signedinto law. And someof the leaders whohelped make that happen are here today, including Leader Pelosi andSenatorMikulski and Congresswoman DeLauro. (Applause.) I want

7、to thank allthe members ofCongress and all the state legislators who are here and all the advocates who are here,becauseyou all contributed to that effort. AndI want to give a special thanks to the members ofthe National Equal Pay TaskForce, who ve done outstanding work to make workplaces acrossAmer

8、ica morefair. We re here because today is EqualPay Day. (Applause.) Equal Pay Da y. And it s nice to havea day, but it s evenbetter to have equal pay. (Applause.) And our job is notfinished yet. EqualPay Day means that a woman has to work about this far into2019 to earn what a man earned in2019. 精品资

9、料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 2 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 3 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习Think about that. A woman has gotto work about three more months in order to get whata man got because shespaid less. Thats not fair. Thats like adding an extra six miles toamarathon

10、. (Laughter.) Its not right. AUDIENCE MEMBER: Aint right. THE PRESIDENT: Ain t right. (Laughter.) Its not right and itaint right. (Laughter.) America should be a level playingfield, a fair race for everybody - a place where anybodywho s willing to workhard has a chance to get ahead. Andrestoring tha

11、t opportunity for everyAmerican - men and women - has to be adriving focus for our country. Now, the good news is today oureconomy is growing; businesses have created almost 9million new jobs over thepast four years. More than 7 millionAmericans have signed up forhealth care coverage under the Affor

12、dable CareAct. (Applause.) Thats a good thing, too. I know it s Equal Pay Day and not ObamacareDay - (laughter) -but I do want to point out that the Affordable Care Actguarantees free preventive care, likemammograms and contraceptive care, fortens of millions of women, and ends the days whenyou coul

13、d be charged 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 3 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 4 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习morejust for being a woman when it comes to your health insurance. (Applause.) And that s true for everybody. (Applause.) Thats just one moreplace where thingswere no

14、t fair. We ll talk about drycleanersnext, right - (laughter) - because I know that - I don t knowwhy it costsmore for Michelle s blouse than my shirt. (Laughter.) But we ve got to make sure thatAmerica works for everybody. Anybody who is willing towork hard, they shouldbe able to get ahead. And weve

15、 got tobuild an economy that works foreverybody, not just those at the top. Restoring opportunity for all has to be ourpriority. Thatswhat America isabout. It doesnt matter where youstarted off, what you look like - you workhard, you take responsibility, youmake the effort, you should be able to get

16、 ahead. And weve got to fight for anopportunity agenda, which means more good jobs that paygood wages, andtraining Americans to make sure that they can fill those jobs, andguaranteeingevery child a world-class education, and making sure the economy rewardshardwork for every single American. And part

17、 of that is fighting forfair pay for women - 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 4 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 5 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习because when women succeed, Americasucceeds. (Applause.) When women su cceed, America succeeds. Its true. I believe that. (Applause.)

18、Its true. Its true. Its true. Now, here s the challenge: Today, the average full-time working womanearns just 77 centsfor every dollar a man earns; for African American women,Latinas, it s even less. And in2019,thats an embarrassment. It iswrong. And this is not just an issue offairness. It s also a

19、family issue andan economic issue, because women make up about half of our workforce andtheyreincreasingly the breadwinners for a whole lot of families out there. So when they makeless money, it means lessmoney for gas, less money for groceries, less money for child care, lessmoneyfor college tuitio

20、n, less money is going into retirement savings. And it s all bad for business,because oureconomy depends on customers out there, andwhen customers haveless money, when hardworking women dont have the resources, that saproblem. When businesses lose terrificwomen talent because they re fed up with unf

21、airpolicies, that s bad forbusiness. They lose out on thecontributions that those women could bemaking. When any of our citizens cant fulfill their potential for reasons thathave nothing to dowith their 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 5 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - -

22、 - 6 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习talent or their character or their work ethic, we renot living up to our founding values.Wedont have second-class citizens in this country - and certainly not in theworkplace. So, tomorrow, the Senate has thechance to start making this right by passing a bill thatLilly alread

23、y alludedto - the Paycheck Fairness Act. (Applause.) Theyve got a chanceto do theright thing. And it would putsensible rules into place, like making sure employees who discusstheirsalaries dont face retaliation by their employers. And here s why this isimportant. There are women here todaywho worked

24、 in offices where itwas against the rules for employees to discusssalaries with one another. And becauseof that,they didnt know they were being paid less than men - just like Lillydidnt know - for doing theexact same work. For some, it was years before they found out. And even then, it onlyhappened

25、because amanager accidentally let it slip or, as in Lillys case, a sympatheticco-workerquietly passed a note. Sheonly found out she earned less than her male colleagues for doing thesame workbecause somebody left an anonymous note. We cant leave that tochance. And over the course of 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载

26、- - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 6 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 7 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习Lillyscareer, she lost more than$200,000 in salary, even more in pension and SocialSecurity benefits - both of which arepegged to salary - simply because shewas a woman. And Lilly, and some of th

27、e otherwomen here, decided it was wrong, set out to fix it. Theywent to their bosses; they asked for araise. That didnt work. They turned to the law; they filedsuit. And for some, for years after waiting andpersisting they finally got some justice. Well, tomorrow, the Senate couldpay tribute to thei

28、r courage by voting yes for paycheckfairness. (Applause.) This should not be a hard proposition. This should not be thatcomplicated. (Applause.) And so far, Republicans inCongress have been gumming up the works. Theyve beenblocking progress on this issue, and of course other issuesthat would help wi

29、th the economicrecovery and help us grow faster. But we dont have to accept that. America, you dont have tosit still. You can make sure that youre putting somepressure on members of Congress aboutthis issue. And I dont care whether youre a Democrat ora Republican. If youre a voter -ifyou ve got a da

30、ughter, you got a sister, you got a mom - I know you got a mom- (laughter) - this is something you 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 7 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 8 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习should care about. And I m not going to stand stilleither. So in this year of ac

31、tion Iveused my executiveauthority whenever I could to create opportunity for moreAmericans. And today, I m going totakeaction - executive action - to make it easier for working women to earn fairpay. So first,Im going to sign anexecutive order to create more pay transparency by prohibitingfederalco

32、ntractors from retaliating against employees who discuss their pay with eachother. (Applause.) Pay secrecy fosters discrimination and weshould not tolerate it - not in federalcontracting or anywhere else. Second, I m signing apresidential memorandum directing the Department of Labor and ouroutstandi

33、ngSecretary of Labor, Tom Perez, to require federal contractors to provide dataabouttheir employee compensation so pay discrimination can be spotted moreeasily. Now, I want to be clear: There are great employers out there who dothe right thing. Thereare plenty ofemployers out there who are absolutel

34、y certain tha t there s no paydiscriminationhappening in their offices. But then sometimes when the data is laid out, it paints adifferentpicture. Many times they then doeverything they 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 8 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 9 / 14文章来源网络整理

35、，仅供参考学习can to fix the problem, and so wewant to encourage them to fixthese problems if they exist by making sure that the data is outthere. So everybody who cares about thisshould pay attention to how the Senate votes tomorrowon this paycheck fairnessact, because the majority of senators support thi

36、s bill, but two yearsago, aminority of Senate Republicans blocked it from getting a vote. Even worse, somecommentators are out theresaying that the pay gap doesnt even exist. They say it s a myth.But it snot a myth; it s math. (Laughter andapplause.) You can look at thepaychecks. You canlook at thes

37、tubs. (Applause.) I mean, Lilly Ledbetter didn tjust make this up. (Laughter.) The court, when it looked atthe documents,said, yep, you ve been getting paid less for doing the same job. It s just thecourt then said, you know, it sbeen - as Lilly said - it s been happening so long, you cant doanythin

38、gabout it anymore - which made no sense and thats why we had to sign anotherbill.Its basic math that adds up toreal money. It makes a real differencefor a lot of Americans whoare working hard to support their families. And of course, the fact that wevegot some resistance 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - -

39、- - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 9 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 10 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习from some folks on this issue up onCapitol Hill just fitswith this larger problem, this vision that the congressional Republicansseemto be continually embracing - this notion that, you know what, youre just

40、 onyour own, nomatter how unfair things are. You see it in their budget. Thebudget the Republicans inCongress just put forward last week, its like a badrerun. It would give massive tax cutstohouseholds making more than a million dollars a year, force deep cuts to thingsthat actuallyhelp working fami

41、lies like early education and college grants andjob training. And, of course, it includes thatnovel idea of repealing the Affordable Care Act. (Laughter.)Fiftieth time theyv e tried that - which would mean the more than 7million Americans whovedone the responsible thing and signed up to buy healthin

42、surance, theyd lose their healthinsurance; and the 3 million young adultswhove stayed on their parents plan, theyd nolonger have that available;take us back to the days when insurers could charge women morejust for being awoman. On minimum wage, three out of fourAmericans support raising the minimum

43、 wage. Usuallywhen three out of four Americans support something, members ofCongress are right 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - - -第 10 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 11 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习there. (Laughter.) And yet here, Republicans in Congress aredead set against it, b

44、locking a pay raisefor tens of millions of Americans -a majority of them women. This isn tjust about treatingwomen fairly. Thisis about Republicans seemingly opposing any efforts to even the playingfieldfor working families. And I was up in Michigan lastweek and I just asked - I dont understand full

45、y the theorybehind this. I dont know why you would resist the ideathat women should be paid the same asmen, and then deny that thats not alwayshappening out there. If Republicans inCongress wantto prove me wrong, if they want to show that they, in fact, docare about women being paid thesame as men,

46、then show me. They can start tomorrow. They can join us in this, the 21stcentury,and vote yes on the Paycheck Fairness Act. (Applause.) Vote yes. And if anybody is watching orlistening, if you care about this issue, then let your senatorsknow where youstand - because America deserves equal pay for e

47、qual work. This is not something were goingto achieve in a day. Theres going to bea lot of stuff thatweve got to do to close the pay gap. We got to make it possible for more women toenter high-paying fields that up until now have been 精品资料 - - - 欢迎下载 - - - - - - - - - - - 欢迎下载 名师归纳 - - - - - - - - -

48、 -第 11 页，共 14 页 - - - - - - - - - - 12 / 14文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习dominated by men, likeengineering and computerscience. Womenhold less than 6 percent of our countrys commercial patents - that s notgoodenough. We need more parents and highschool teachers and college professors encouraginggirls and women to

49、studymath and science. We need morebusinesses to make gender diversitya priority when they hire and when theypromote. Fewer than five percent ofFortune 500companies have women at the helm. I think we d all agree that weneed more women in Congress. (Applause.) Fewer than 20percent of congressional se

50、ats are held by women. Clearly, Congress would get more done iftheratio was - (laughter) - evened out a little bit. So weve got to work on that. And weve all got to do more tomake our workplaces more welcoming to women. Becausethe numbers show that even when men and women are in the sameprofession a