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With him on this and now they want? is it pay peace meal issue where the white house says we've made progress and then it stops here and doesn't spread to laundry workers, workers in the hotel industry across the country. those are the larger numbers of these workers. it's whether this is symbolic policy but good politics for this president and how it will play out for so many workers? it will help the workers at the white house. the broader group of minimum wage workers are still struggling to get by carol. >> christine, thanks so much. stay tuned to cnn for the complete koencoverage and anal...

These racial barriers, get children in the good schools, get women the education that they need, provide some resources and loans so that women can pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. if we don't deal with racism, we can't deal with the impact of gender on women. >> so let's talk about some of the specific things that are going on. two-thirds of the minimum wage jobs in 2011 were held by women. even though they represent only 40% of the overall labor force. president obama, they want to raise the minimum wage. >> they do. and i think what's interesting about those two-thirds of minimum wage ...

Solutions here, right? more than 70% of low wage workers get no paid sick days at all. you have a minimum wage that's no longer a livable wage. and if you look out on the political horizon, the prospects of these are going to be uphill political battles. do you think couching in gender helps at all? >> i don't know if it helps politically. it is the truth. the way the bottom wrung of the american wage scale works is it is a very female space. women as you cited are a majority of minimum wage workers. there's an entire universe of professions that are growing that can't be outsourced that are o...

So often boys emulate their fathers. on so talking to boys as a mother about respecting women is one thing, but if men come in and say it's important, men say, you know, equality in a relationship and lifting women up is good for men and why that is, that goes a long way. i think women, as a woman's nation, we need to include men in this or we are always going to be just half the population talking to ourselves. >> get them while they are young. >> at any age. >> get them at age but certainly while they are young so you can instill that value and that gender equality so that there is not the d...

The difference. >> so, you know that there is going to be a higher minimum wage that will be addressed by the governor of california, that's also something the president would like to see. you're asking for yet another one and just from political expediency, do you believe it's even possible? >> i really think so. for example, in california the cost of living is about 30% above the national average. and i commend the governor and state legislature for raising the minimum wage and passing legislation a few months ago to raise it to $10 an hour by 2016. but $10 an hour for minimum wage workers i...