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We banned revenge porn. We strengthened protections for women in the workplace. We expanded the statute of limitations for rape. And we passed nation-leading #EqualPay laws to address the disparity in pay for women, particularly women of color. #NYWomenLead

But just as the early suffragettes never viewed their work as complete, neither do we. The torch must be kept lit. #NYWomenLead

We must build on our nation-leading Paid Family Leave program with #PaidSickLeave. Eliminate profits made on backs of women by ending the Pink Tax – because women’s products should not cost more than men’s. #NYWomenLead

Enact the long overdue Equal Rights Amendment - first proposed in NY by Alice Paul in 1923 as part of the state Constitution. Let's get it done. And we must fight hard to keep affordable, accessible #childcare front and center. #NYWomenLead

We also want to highlight women leaders who may have been left out in the past. I encourage all of YOU to use the #NYWomenLead hashtag to underline some of the New York women who have fought these battles in the past.

This year, women have the moral responsibility to honor the early suffragettes and their sacrifices. #NYWomenLead

Every NY woman must march into polling places throughout this year as surrogates for the countless women who lived before 1917 and 1920 who never realized that their voices could matter. The New York Women of 2020 ARE those voices. #NYWomenLead

We must ensure we are counted in the #2020Census & vote in every single 2020 election. Do it for – Elizabeth Cady Stanton Do it for- Susan B. Anthony Do it for – Harriet Tubman Do it for – Sojourner Truth Do it for – Carrie Chapman Catt Do it for the future. #NYWomenLead