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sheshe2

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Mon Mar 18, 2013, 05:39 PM Mar 2013

Womens History Month~

For more than two centuries, our Nation has grown under the simple creed that each of us is created equal. It is a notion that makes America unlike any other place on earth -- a country where no matter where you come from or what you look like, you can go as far as your talents will take you.

Women's History Month is a time to remember those who fought to make that freedom as real for our daughters as for our sons. Written out of the promise of the franchise, they were women who reached up to close the gap between what America was and what it could be. They were driven by a faith that our Union could extend true equality to every citizen willing to claim it. Year after year, visionary women met and marched and mobilized to prove what should have been self-evident. They grew a meeting at Seneca Falls into a movement that touched every community and took on our highest institutions. And after decades of slow, steady, extraordinary progress, women have written equal opportunity into the law again and again, giving generations of girls a future worthy of their potential.

That legacy of change is all around us. Women are nearly half of our Nation's workforce and more than half of our college graduates. But even now, too many women feel the weight of discrimination on their shoulders. They face a pay gap at work, or higher premiums for health insurance, or inadequate options for family leave. These issues affect all of us, and failing to address them holds our country back.




The rest is here:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/02/28/presidential-proclamation-womens-history-month-2013
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Womens History Month~ (Original Post) sheshe2 Mar 2013 OP
I did not know this, she.. this is our month! Cha Mar 2013 #1
It is , Cha. sheshe2 Mar 2013 #2
Him and his beautiful Cha Mar 2013 #3
President announces Cathy Russell as his nominee for Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues.. Cha Mar 2013 #4

Cha

(297,711 posts)
1. I did not know this, she.. this is our month!
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 06:37 PM
Mar 2013


http://theobamadiary.com/

That is why my Administration has made the needs of women and girls a priority since day one -- from signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to helping ensure women are represented among tomorrow's top scientists and engineers. It is why we secured stronger protections and more preventive services for women under the Affordable Care Act. It is why we have fought for greater workplace flexibility, access to capital and training for women-owned businesses, and equal pay for equal work. And it is why we have taken action to reduce violence against women at home and abroad, and to empower women around the world with full political and economic opportunity


NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 2013 as Women's History Month. I call upon all Americans to observe this month and to celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, 2013, with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities. I also invite all Americans to visit www.WomensHistoryMonth.gov to learn more about the generations of women who have shaped our history.


thank you for bringing this important news on board, she..
BOG

Cha

(297,711 posts)
3. Him and his beautiful
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 09:25 PM
Mar 2013

sidekick, Michelle.

It cracks me up that there are those who try and protray the President as having "a women problem". they go after his strengths.

Cha

(297,711 posts)
4. President announces Cathy Russell as his nominee for Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues..
Mon Mar 18, 2013, 11:25 PM
Mar 2013

She was Dr Jill Biden's Chief of Staff..



"Cathy is a longtime advocate for women, for justice, for fairness," President Obama said as he introduced his nominee. "We know that she's going to be powerful voice for women and girls around the world."

The Ambassador's post was created four years ago by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and her "sole job it is to make sure that women and girls are a central part of every aspect of our foreign policy, that their concerns are considered at the highest level of our diplomatic decision-making," President Obama explained. He hailed Clinton herself as "a tireless advocate for women."


According to the President, Russel has been instrumental in Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden's Joining Forces initiative. Russel previously worked at the Justice Department during the Clinton Administration, and was an administrative assistant to Vice President Joe Biden during his Senate days. She is married to Tom Donilon, President Obama's National Security Adviser.

http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/03/president-obama-first-lady-host-womens.html#more

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