5th Democratic Primary Debate: on Jobs

Kamala Harris: Women are still only paid 80 cents compared to $1 for men

People are having children in their 30s, often in their 40s, which means that these families and parents are often raising young children AND taking care of their parents, which requires a lot of work. And what we are seeing in America today is the burden principally falls on women to do that work.

The reality also is that women are not paid equal for equal work in America. We passed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, but fast forward to the year of our lord 2019, and women are paid 80 cents on the dollar, black women 61 cents, Native American women 58 cents, Latinas 53 cents.

So my policy is about -- there's a whole collection of the work that I am doing that is focused on women and working women in America and the inequities and, therefore, the injustice that women in America are facing that needs to be resolved and addressed.