Ginny Brown-Waite Men Quotations

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years.

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

While Kuwait is not a democracy, giving only half the population a voice in their government is not a policy this Congress should support and one that I am glad that Kuwait's leaders are changing.