IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 507 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of a women’s 
economic bill of rights. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2014 
Mr. BARBER (for himself, Mr. BARROW of Georgia, Ms. BROWNLEY of Cali-
fornia, Mrs. BUSTOS, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Ms. CLARK of Massachusetts, 
Ms. DELAURO, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. ENYART, Mr. GARAMENDI, Mr. GRI-
JALVA, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. HONDA, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE 
JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. KIRKPATRICK, Ms. KUSTER, Mr. LOWENTHAL, 
Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
PETERS of California, Mr. PERLMUTTER, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. RUIZ, Mr. 
RUSH, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Ms. SINEMA, Mr. SWALWELL of California, Ms. 
TITUS, Mr. TONKO, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. VARGAS, and Ms. WILSON 
of Florida) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Education and the Workforce 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in 
support of a women’s economic bill of rights. 
Whereas equal opportunity and fairness are among the Na-
tion’s most cherished tenets and are central to the Na-
tion’s economic prosperity; 
Whereas women have entered the workforce in record num-
bers over the past 50 years and families increasingly rely 
on the wages of both men and women; 
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Whereas, despite the enactment of the Equal Pay Act of 
1963, many women continue to earn significantly lower 
pay than men for equal work; 
Whereas, nationwide, women on average earn only 77 cents 
for every dollar earned by men; 
Whereas, on average, African-American women are paid only 
64 cents and Latina women are paid just 55 cents for 
every dollar paid to non-Hispanic White men; 
Whereas women represent nearly two-thirds of all minimum 
wage workers; 
Whereas the poverty rate for women—14.5 percent—is the 
highest in 20 years; 
Whereas, with 40 percent of working women serving as the 
primary breadwinners in their families, pay inequality de-
presses the wages of working families; 
Whereas women should not have to choose between earning 
a paycheck, having a family, and caring for a loved one; 
Whereas, in many families, women are the primary caregivers 
for children and dependents, yet 39 percent of full-time 
workers in the private sector lack access to paid sick 
leave and over 70 percent of low-wage workers do not 
have a single paid sick day; 
Whereas, because over 60 percent of women who gave birth 
in a given year also worked during that time, discrimina-
tion and denial of reasonable workplace accommodations 
threaten the success of women in the workforce; 
Whereas the existence of pay disparities and workplace in-
equities threaten women’s economic security throughout 
their lifetimes and undermine women’s retirement secu-
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•HRES 507 IH 
rity, which is often based on earnings while in the work-
force; 
Whereas neither women nor men have the paid leave they 
need to provide care to children, spouses, elders or to 
care for themselves, and ensuring men have access to 
paid leave promotes gender equity in both work and in 
caregiving; 
Whereas women own 28 percent of all American firms and 
families and communities rely upon women-owned firms 
for employment and wages; and 
Whereas, despite the enactment of the Women’s Federal Pro-
curement Program, women-owned firms continue to se-
cure less than four percent of Federal contracts losing 
access to billions of dollars in opportunity annually: Now 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Resolution may be cited as the ‘‘Women’s Eco-
nomic Bill of Rights Resolution of 2014’’. 
SEC. 2. SENSE OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
It is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the Congress should support efforts that guarantee— 
(1) pay equity, ensuring equal pay for equal 
work; 
(2) fair treatment in the workplace, including 
reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers, 
enabling them to continue working to support their 
families; 
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•HRES 507 IH 
(3) access to paid family and medical leave for 
women and men; 
(4) economic and retirement security for women 
and men; and 
(5) fair access, for women and men, to business 
capital, Federal contracts, and a marketplace that is 
conducive to small business growth. 
Æ 
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