Language is important here
"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."
— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
Planned Parenthood does provide some basic health care
"In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, November 8th, 2019
Not exact, but close
"Black women make only around 63 cents while Native American women earn 58 cents, and Hispanic women make just 54 cents in comparison to every dollar a man makes."
— PolitiFact West Virginia on Thursday, May 16th, 2019
Needs context
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019, than in the year 1850..."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Gillibrand thinks women get more done
"Studies even show that when women go to Congress they get more things done - more bipartisan effort, more bills passed."
— PolitiFact New York on Friday, November 16th, 2018
She held firm against it
Says Marsha Blackburn "voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape."
— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
Lately on rebound?
"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, June 14th, 2018
We gotta testify
"Kanye (West) looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees (women’s unemployment) the lowest it’s been in now almost 19 years."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, April 26th, 2018
State can't regulate some plans
"Women in our state will continue to have cost-free access to reproductive health care"
— PolitiFact New York on Saturday, October 21st, 2017
U.S. trails essentially all rivals
"We’re the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t have paid maternity leave."
— PolitiFact Missouri on Thursday, September 28th, 2017
'Puzzling' rate spike
"Texas mothers are dying during childbirth at the highest rates in the nation."
— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Off by just a few percentage points
"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, June 12th, 2017
Gap is narrower in New York
"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."
— PolitiFact New York on Friday, June 9th, 2017
Handel seems to want it both ways
"In 2012, you were discussing how you led the effort to defund breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood."
— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
Women work, work, work, work, work
"40 percent of American households have female primary breadwinners."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
Dems have far more women and minorities
In Congress, "on the Democratic side of the room, you’ve got men and women of all different races; on the other side, you’ve got a bunch of white men in dark suits, all over 55 or so."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, April 28th, 2017
Yes, with qualifications
Says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson "oppose a woman's right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, November 3rd, 2016
No national law for paid leave
"We are the only industrialized nation that doesn't guarantee workers paid family leave."
— PolitiFact National on Monday, July 25th, 2016
The toll of war, poverty and family traditions
In South Sudan, "more teenage girls die in childbirth than finish high school."
— PolitiFact Global News Service on Monday, July 25th, 2016
College ball's popularity is surprisingly low
"In North Carolina, paid family leave is more popular than college basketball."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, July 15th, 2016