Obama Calls For Equal Pay For Women: 'This Isn't 1958'

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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Amid grappling with crisis in Ukraine, President Barack Obama made a pitch for women's pocketbook issues Thursday, calling for legislation requiring equal pay for equal work and saying Congress would get more done if it had more women.

"Women with college degrees may earn hundreds of thousands of dollars less over the course of her career than a man at the same educational level, and that’s wrong." Obama said. "This isn’t 1958 -- it’s 2014.”

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White House aides say turning out female voters, particularly single women, will be a key to Democratic performance in November so Obama is putting extra emphasis on financial challenges facing that demographic, including equal pay.

"I've got a personal stake in seeing women get ahead," Obama said from a Valencia College stage filled with 25 women of diverse ages and ethnicities. "First of all, women make up 80 percent of my household, if you count my mother-in-law, and I always count my mother-in-law." He also noted he was raised by a single mother, with the support of a grandmother who he said hit a "glass ceiling" at the bank where she trained men to become her boss.

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In the hunt for female voters, Obama appeared via satellite Thursday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." He joked about how his wife and daughters are smarter than he is and teased DeGeneres for breaking his Twitter record on Oscar night with a star-filled "selfie" photo that's been retweeted more than Obama's re-election victory photo.

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[William769]

1. Good!

[polichick]

2. Good move. Women RepubliCons disrespect themselves.

[steve2470]

3. wow he was here today ?

I'm such a bad Democrat

Great message, President Obama !