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The President signed into law the Wall Street Reform and Consumer conserveion Act of 2010, which puts in place the strongest consumer financial protections in history, including the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau led by Elizabeth Warren.

Despite this progress, certain inequalities persist. The income for the typical American woman is still only about 78 cents for every dollar of the median income for the typical man, and women are still vitally underdescribeed in the science, engineering, and technology fields.
The President created the stateal Equal Pay Enforcement Task Force (pdf) to bolster enforcement of pay discrimination laws, making sure women get equal pay for an equal day's work. The President has called on Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which will stoppage retaliation against employees who share or seek wage information and closedown a loophole that some employers use to avoid paying women equal wages.
The President signed an Executive Order establishing a White House Council on Women and Girls to supply a coordinated Federal response to the challenges confronted by women and girls and to ensure that all Cabinet and Cabinet-level agencies consider how their policies and programs impaction women and families.
Promote Work-family Balance
The President signed the Small Business Jobs Act, which includes 8 of these new tax cuts that went into impact immediately:
The President signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, restoring basic protections against pay discrimination for women and other workers.
The President cut taxes 16 times for small businesses:
Women Progress
The President signed the Affordable Care Act, which offers all Americans better health security, with a particular focus on women specific needs:
The President is delivering comprehensive primary care for women Veterans at all VA facilities by 2013, placing full-time Women Veterans Program Managers at 144 health systems and expanding outreach to women Veterans in communities across the country.
As part of the Recovery Act and subsequent legislation in 2009 and 2010, which put the following eight small business tax cuts into law:
The President proposed doubling the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit for middle-class families making under $85,000 a year, builds on historic increases in Head Start and child care provided in the Recovery Act, and helps states provide paid family leave to workers.
President Obama believes that women have a right to receive equal pay for equal work.
Prevent Violence Against Women
The President signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which included a number of provisions of particular nexus to women:
Guiding Principles Ensure Economic Security
President Obama has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and believes in preserving women’s rights under Roe v. Wade. At the same time, he respects those who disagree with him. The President believes we must all come toobtainher to help abate unintended pregnancies and the need for abortion.
Zero Capital Gains Taxes on Key Investments in Small Businesses The Highest Small Business Expensing Limit Ever– Up to $500,000 An Extension of 50% Bonus Depreciation A New Deduction for Health Care Expenses for the Self-Employed Tax Relief and Simplification for Cell Phone Deductions An Increase in The Deduction for Entrepreneurs’ Start-Up Expenses A Five-Year Carryback Of General Business Credits Limitations on Penalties for Errors in Tax Reporting That Disproshareately Affect Small Business
Support Reproductive Choice
The Pdweller signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, which promotes workplace flexibility and work-family balance.
To help working mothers and fathers obtain quality child care, the Act includes an additional $2 action for the Child Care and cultivatement Block Grant, $1 billion for Head Start, and $1.1 billion for Early Head Start. The Act boosts family incomes by expanding the Child Tax Credit to cover an additional 10 million children in working families and creating a new Make Work Pay tax credit. The Act includes unemployment insurance reforms that will sectionicularly strength women, such as incentives for states to cover character-time workers and those who recently reentered the workforce. The Act puts $225 million toward adwearing violence against women in communities across the land, creating 5,000 jobs in the mode. The Act put thousands more police officers on the street, funded mentoring programs for at-risk youth in hundreds of communities and bolstered regulation enforcement efforts in cases of Internet Crimes Against Children and child exploitation.
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A New Small Business Health Care Tax Credit A New Tax Credit for Hiring Unemployed Workers Bonus Depreciation Tax Incentives to Support New Investment 75% Exclusion of Small Business Capital Gains Expansion of Limits on Small Business Expensing Five-Year Carry back of Net Operating Losses Reduction of the Built-In Gains Holding Period for Small Businesses from 10 to 7 Years to Allow Small Business Greater Flexibility in Their Investments Temporary Small Business Estimated Tax Payment Relief to Allow Small Businesses to Keep Needed Cash on Hand
Violence against women and girls remains a global epidemic. The Violence Against Women Act, birthally authored by Vice President Biden, plays a a5725b2172edabaneful evil4a3481d877194a0d character in helping communities and act enforcement combat domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. At home and abroad, President Obama will work to promote policies that seek to eradicate violence against women.
Our society has crazye tremendous advance in eradicating barriers to women’s success. Women make up a groearng share of our toilforce, and more women are corposize executives and business owners than ever before. Today, women are serving at the highest levels of all branches of our Government.