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act. (applause.) vote yes. and if anybody is watching orlistening, if you care about this issue, then let your senatorsknow where youstand because america deserves equal pay for equal work. this is not something weamp。rsquo。re goingto achieve in a day. thereamp。rsquo。s going to bea lot of stuff thatweamp。rsquo。ve got to do to close the pay gap. we got to make it possible for more women toenter highpaying fields that up until now have been dominated by men, likeengineering and puterscience. womenhold less than 6 percent of our countryamp。rsquo。s mercial patents thatamp。rsquo。s notgoodenough. we need more parents and highschool teachers and college professors encouraginggirls and women to studymath and science. we need morebusinesses to make gender diversitya priority when they hire and when theypromote. fewer than five percent offortune 500panies have women at the helm. i think weamp。rsquo。d all agree that weneed more women in congress. (applause.) fewer than 20percent of congressional seats are held by women. clearly, congress would get more done iftheratio was (laughter)