【正文】 eel like you’vegot their backs, and they’ll stay with you.
　　And it’s not just these big corporations that are embracing these policies. So Cheryl Snead, whois the CEO of Banneker Industries where’s Cheryl? She was here just a second. There she isback there. So Banneker Industries, a supply chain management firm, is based in NorthSmithfield. And when Cheryl was in college, she studied mechanical engineering. At the time,there weren’t that many African American women in mechanical engineering. There stillaren’t. (Laughter.) We’re working to change that.
　　Cheryl wants to do something about that. Her pany has made it a priority to find talentedyoung women and minority students, encourage them to study science and math in college,hire them once they graduate. (Applause.) And what Cheryl was explaining was that having adiverse workforce, having more women in the workforce, all that makes her a strongerpany. And it’s not just good for the workers it’s good for business.
　　So if large businesses like Google, small businesses like Cheryl’s all see the wisdom of this, let’sjoin them. Let’s encourage more women and more girls into fields like science and technologyand engineering and math. And let’s work with those panies to ensure that familyfriendlypolicies can support more women in that workforce. (Applause.)
　　AnnMarie Harrington where is Ann? AnnMarie is right here. So AnnMarie, she’s thepresident of a pany called Embolden, based in Pawtucket. And it provides web services tomunity foundations and nonprofits. A small business about 20 employees。 21 I thinkshe said. She just hired somebody, must have been. (Laughter.) But she lets them work fromhome and keep a flexible schedule when they need to. And she says that’s increased herpany’s productivity.
　　So I’m taking a page from these panies’ playbooks. This summer I directed the federalagencies in the executive branch to put flexible workplace policies in wherever possible。make it clear that all federal employees have the right to request them. We want the besttalent to serve our country, and that means making it a little bit easier for them to maintainthat workfamily balance.
　　But these are issues that are too important to hinge on whether or not your boss isenlightened. We have to raise our voices to demand that women get paid fairly. We’ve got toraise our voices to make sure women can take time off to care for a loved one, and that momsand dads can spend time with a new baby. We’ve got to raise our voices to make sure that ourwomen maintain and keep their own health care choices. We’ve got to raise our voices tobasically do away with policies and politicians that belong in a “Mad Men” episode. “Mad Men”is a good show, but that’s not who we want making decisions about our workplaces these women succeed, America succeeds. And we need leaders who understand that. That’swhat we need. (Applause.)
　　So if you care about these policies, you got to keep pushing for them. This shouldn’t bepartisan. Republicans and Democrats should be supportive of all these issues.
　　I was talking to Tom Perez。 he had just e back from Europe. He was talking to chambers ofmerce and conservative politicians. They were all supportive of family leave, supportiveof childcare, because they understood it actually made the economy more productive. Thisisn’t a liberal or conservative agenda.
　　When I talk to women, like the ones I spoke to earlier, when I hear folks’ stories from acrossthe country, and when I think about my own mom and how she made it all work, or mygrandmother, nobody is looking at these issues through partisan lenses. We’re not Democratsfirst or Republicans first, we are Americans first. And as Americans, it’s up to us to protect andrestore the ideals that made this country great. (Applause.)
　　And that is, that in this country, no matter who you are, what you look like, where you efrom, whether you are male or you are female here in America, you can make it if you ’s the promise of America. That’s the future I’m going to fight for. (Applause.) I want youto fight there with me.
　　Thank you, everybody. God bless you.