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Institute for Women's Policy Research
stated on May 20, 2015 a new report:

Georgia ranks 49th for women serving in elected state and federal offices.

True

By Nancy Badertscher • May 27, 2015

Sean Hannity
stated on May 14, 2015 a panel discussion :

As a senator, Hillary Clinton "actually paid female staffers a lot less than men."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • May 21, 2015

EMILY's List
stated on May 14, 2015 a column on Medium:

Says Jeb Bush "once held $1 million in family planning grants hostage until the programs receiving the money agreed not to discuss birth control at all."

Mostly False

By Joshua Gillin • May 20, 2015

Maria Shriver
stated on May 10, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Two-thirds of American families rely on the mother's income to stay above the poverty level."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 23, 2015 a speech at the Women in the World conference:

"The United States is 65th out of 142 nations and other territories on equal pay."

Half-True

By Louis Jacobson • May 5, 2015

Viral BuzzFeed
stated on April 20, 2015 video:

Women make only 78 percent of what men make for the same job.

Mostly False

By Jim Tharpe, Nancy Badertscher • April 22, 2015

Mark Herring
stated on April 14, 2015 a Facebook post.:

"By age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 throughout her working career was a result of the pay gap."

Mostly True

By Warren Fiske • April 20, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on February 24, 2015 a conference in Silicon Valley:

"You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2015

Bishop Thomas Tobin
stated on January 22, 2015 a newspaper column:

"Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood."

False

By Katie Mulvaney • March 2, 2015

CNN
stated on February 18, 2015 a graphic on CNN Newsroom:

"ISIS lures women with kittens, nutella."

Mostly False

By Katie Sanders • February 19, 2015

Lori Haas
stated on January 19, 2015 a news conference:

In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns "49 percent fewer women are shot and killed."

Half-True

By Sean Gorman • February 16, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on February 8, 2015 a public-service video during the Grammys:

"Nearly one in five women in America has been a victim of rape or attempted rape."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • February 16, 2015

Rush Limbaugh
stated on February 2, 2015 his radio commentary:

"A married couple that" use the same last name "is rarer and rarer in our country."

Mostly False

By Tom Kertscher • February 13, 2015

Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
stated on January 10, 2015 a tweet:

"Common welfare programs give income of $43,330 or $20.83 an hour."

Mostly False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 1, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on January 21, 2015 a broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Says President Barack Obama is "not paying women equally by his own measures in his own White House."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • January 22, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on January 20, 2015 the State of the Union address:

The United States is "the only advanced country on Earth" that doesn’t guarantee "paid maternity leave to our workers."

Mostly True

By Steve Contorno • January 21, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on December 7, 2014 an interview on Meet the Press:

"My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas."

True

By Dylan Baddour • December 22, 2014

Anne Nolan
stated on November 12, 2014 a Journal commentary:

"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."

False

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • November 23, 2014

Violence Policy Center
stated on September 8, 2014 an annual study:

Georgia ranks No. 9 in the rate of women murdered by men.

True

By April Hunt • November 19, 2014

Scott Walker
stated on October 14, 2014 an interview:

The gender gap in his support is "not unique to me" and "there’s not a huge gap from where Republicans have been in presidential, gubernatorial and US Senate elections" in recent years.

Mostly True

By Craig Gilbert, Dave Umhoefer • October 31, 2014

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