President Obama: "When Women Succeed, America Succeeds"
Yesterday, the President hosted a meeting with women in Congress to discuss the 2014 women's economic agenda, and the administration's plan to expand opportunity for every American.
Ahead of that meeting, we released new data that laid out exactly why we've still got work to do to close the gender gap and promote opportunity. Because, as President Obama said in his State of the Union address, "When women succeed, America succeeds."
Here's the state of women in the workforce, in three charts. Take a look and pass it on.
President Barack Obama meets with women members of Congress in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, March 12, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) |