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Issue Position: Women's Issues

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2014
Issues: Women Employment and Affirmative Action Reproduction

EQUAL PAY

Many Ohioans are living in difficult economic times, and things are harder than they need to be because, under John Kasich, Ohio's women are not earning equal pay. Women in Ohio make only about $0.77 for every $1 made by an Ohio man. And things aren't much better in John Kasich's office: the Governor's staff has the largest pay gap between men and women of any statewide office holder.

Ed FitzGerald understands that when women succeed, Ohio families succeed. Ed FitzGerald supports legislation that will increase corporate accountability and transparency in order to prevent companies from engaging in pay discrimination. FitzGerald also supports raising wages for minimum wage workers, two-thirds of whom are women.

WOMEN'S HEALTH

John Kasich has made access to healthcare a practical impossibility for poor and middle-class women in Ohio. He has also passed some of the most extreme restrictions on reproductive rights in the country, such as prohibiting rape crisis counselors from informing victims of all their medical options. Planned Parenthood, which provides a host of services, including contraceptive care and cancer screenings, is also at risk of losing significant funding under Governor Kasich.

Ed FitzGerald strongly disagrees with John Kasich and other statehouse politicians who think they can dictate to women and their families what should be private health decisions. In order to ensure that women have access to affordable, quality healthcare, Ed FitzGerald will restore funding and repeal laws that have made it difficult for poor and working class families to gain access to healthcare.

Ed's running mate, Sharen Neuhardt, has also personally witnessed the importance of providing quality, community health services to Ohio's women. Sharen served on the Board of Trustees of Planned Parenthood of Miami Valley for seven years, and she currently serves on the board of Premier Community Health, an organization that provides breast and cervical cancer screenings to underserved women in Dayton.


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