Obama Inaugurates Monument to Women's Equality

U.S. President Barack Obama designated a historic house in Washington as a monument honoring the movement for women's equality in the country. “Today (April 12) is Equal Pay Day. Which means a woman has to work about this far into 2016 just to earn what a man earned in 2015," Obama said in a speech at what it now called the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument. The name honors activist and suffragist Alva Belmont, a former president of the National Woman's...

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