Jonathan actively supports wide-ranging rights for women, not just reproductive rights.

Wage equity regardless of sex must be respected, including equal pay for comparable work (not merely for identical jobs).

Workers deserve a living wage nationwide. We must end America’s futile and destructive attempts to protect our jobs - including so many service jobs now held by low-paid women - by competing with the pay scales of the world’s poorest.

America must ensure that survivors of intimate violence receive social supports that are considerate, consistent, and ample to enable these women, children and men to grow past their suffering.

The nation needs to commit to real support for caregivers of our children and other dependents – ensuring income support for the neediest, and granting Social Security Retirement credit for years worked in homes as caregivers outside of the labor market.

-- Title IX civil rights need to be defended, not eroded!