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Institute for Women's Policy Research
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 13, 2015
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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