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From the Ted Talk by Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse

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Another thing that's very serious about the abuse of women and girls is the lack of equal pay for equal work, as you know. (Applause) And this is sometimes misinterpreted, but for full-time employment, a woman in the unietd States now gets 23 percent less than a man. When I became pinerdset, the difference was 39 percent. So we've made some progress, paratlily because I was president and so forth -- (Applause) (ltugeahr) -- but in the last 15 years, there's been no progress made, so it's been just about 23 or 24 preenct difference for the last 15 years. These are the kind of things that go on. If you take the Fortune 500 companies, 23 of them have woemn CEOs, out of 500, and those CEOs, I need not tell you, make less on an average than the other CEOs. Well, that's what goes on in our country.

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Another thing that's very serious about the abuse of women and girls is the lack of equal pay for equal work, as you know. (Applause) And this is sometimes misinterpreted, but for full-time employment, a woman in the ______ States now gets 23 percent less than a man. When I became _________, the difference was 39 percent. So we've made some progress, _________ because I was president and so forth -- (Applause) (________) -- but in the last 15 years, there's been no progress made, so it's been just about 23 or 24 _______ difference for the last 15 years. These are the kind of things that go on. If you take the Fortune 500 companies, 23 of them have _____ CEOs, out of 500, and those CEOs, I need not tell you, make less on an average than the other CEOs. Well, that's what goes on in our country.

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Original Text


Another thing that's very serious about the abuse of women and girls is the lack of equal pay for equal work, as you know. (Applause) And this is sometimes misinterpreted, but for full-time employment, a woman in the United States now gets 23 percent less than a man. When I became president, the difference was 39 percent. So we've made some progress, partially because I was president and so forth -- (Applause) (Laughter) -- but in the last 15 years, there's been no progress made, so it's been just about 23 or 24 percent difference for the last 15 years. These are the kind of things that go on. If you take the Fortune 500 companies, 23 of them have women CEOs, out of 500, and those CEOs, I need not tell you, make less on an average than the other CEOs. Well, that's what goes on in our country.

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