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>> reporter: its one of president obamas top agenda items. here just yesterday. >> lets make sure women earn pay equal to their efforts. >> reporter: and back in april this -- >> the average-working woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. >> reporter: thats been one tricky statistic. thats the u.s. on average. what it doesnt explain is the fact that more women hold the lower-paying jobs in a number of fields. for the highest-paying roles, the pool of applicants is predominantly male f...

Just yesterday. >> lets make sure women earn pay equal to their efforts. >> back in april this. >> the average woman earns 7 cents for every dollar a man earns. >> reporter: that has been one tricky statistic on the u.s. on average. it doesnt explain why more women hold lower paying jobs, for the highest paying roles the field of applicant is predominantly male for a number of reasons, including choice and those fields include the whoigs where more women hold lower paying positions and if you us...

>> our copanderer in chief spent the day kissing up to women. >> the average woman earns 7 cents for every dollar a man earns. the equal payday means a woman has to work about this far into 2014 to earn what a man earned in 2013. >> yes, to get the same amount of pay, womens work year is three months longer. good news, ladies. if youre 38 years old, financially, youre just 29. >> that was stephen colbert taking on equal pay debate. but the pig big news today is colbert is officially set to repla...

Cents for every dollar a man earns. >> the statistics the president used to day were thrown back at jay carney. after according to an analyst, the median salary of women working in the white house is 88% of that of men working in the white house. >> you would say there is no pay discrimination here at the white house, right? there is no pay discrimination at the white house? is that your -- >> it is absolutely the case there is ookabequal pay for equ work. >> but you are using the same metric to...

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If you are a voter, if youve got a daughter, a sister, a mom -- i know you got a mom, its something you should care about. >> there was a dispute today over how big the pay gap is between men and women and the pay gap at the white house which brings us to the twitter war i was mentioning and ed henry is live at the white house. the briefing got a little heated in there, eddy. >> remember, the president got in hot water over if you like your plan you can keep your plan. he had to sort of adjust o...

I believe that. [ applause ] >> its true. its true. heres the challenge. today the average full-time working woman earns 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. for african-american women, lati latinas, its even less. in 2014, thats an embarrassment, it is wrong. this is not just an issue of fairness, its also a family issue and economic issue because women make up about half of our workforce. and they are increasingly the bread winners for a whole lot the families out there. when they make less ...

Our workforce. and theyre increasingly the breadwinners for a whole lot of families out there. so when they make less money, it means less money for gas, less money for groceries, less money for child care. less money for college tuition. >> reporter: an executive order bans government contractors from targeting workers who talk about their salaries. a presidential memorandum requires a report on workers pay by race and gender to help identify cases of discrimination. but both moves still leave ...

White house is making it and insist pay equality is better in the genders than in years past and point to the white house saying the 88 cents on the dollar the white house has to reconcile itself. for the white house this is a significant topic and for democrats in general. they need to raise this issue, that targets women specifically, women the plarnlgest demographic in terms of voting and on top of that single women specifically for whom this issue really speaks volumes. >> its a huge and ser...

Its true. its true. its true. heres the challenge. today, the average full-time working woman earns just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. for african-american women, latinas, its even less. in 2014, thats an embarrassment. it is wrong. and this is not just an issue of fairness, its also a family issue. and an economic issue. because women make up about half of our workforce. and theyre increasingly the breadwinners for a whole lot of family also out there. so when they make less money, it ...