W orking women shoulder a heavy burden in America's families, workplaces and communities.
And even though times are good, their lives are not necessarily getting any easier. Instead, the unique demands of today's strong new economy mean that working women need more help than ever. Working women around the country say that if they are to meet their obligations at home and at work, they need more time, pay and benefits . And their top legislative priorities in this all-important election year are equal pay, paid family leave, health care and retirement security . Those were the findings of the Ask a Working Woman telephone survey recently conducted by the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest organization of working women with more than 5 million women members.