At a campaign stop on Nevada Tuesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was taking questions from the audience when an adorable little girl with curly hair rose to ask about a very serious matter which she wanted an answer to. She asked:
“Do you think that when you’re president you’ll get paid as much as if you were a man?”
The gathered crowd laughed, then applauded, and Clinton replied:
“This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. But there are so many examples where that doesn’t happen.”
Clinton then went on to add:
“As president, I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that not just the president gets paid the same — whether it’s a woman or a man — but every woman in every job gets paid the same as the men who are doing that job.”
Every parent with a daughter has either been asked or will be asked this same question at one time or another. And as Secretary Clinton pledged, each and every one of us should work to guarantee that every woman is paid as much as a man who does the same job.
