AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Santa Clara, California - February 24, 2015 1. SOUNDBITE (English) Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State: “Less than 5 % of all fortune 500 CEO’s are women. And women entrepreneurs often have a much harder time accessing capital to start or grow a business. Up and down the ladder many women are paid less for the same work which is why I think we all cheered for Patricia Arquette’s speech at the Oscar’s because she’s right, it’s time to have wage equality once and for all but it’s not just wage equality. Many working parents all too often don’t have access to common sense benefits like sick days paid leave that would allow them to balance work and family.” // “When I was young lawyer and was pregnant I worked in a small law firm and there was no family leave policy, it never come up before I was the first woman to be a partner in that law firm so nobody said anything to me and I never said anything to them. I just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and I would walk down the halls and some of my partners would avert their eyes they didn’t know what to say to me. So when the time came and I went in and gave birth, the next morning the lead partner called and he said two things, he said congratulations and when are you coming back to work? I said well thank you very much maybe in four months. He goes, oh, okay. He had no idea. I had no idea. But I was in a position where I could say okay, four months. And too many women even in those days I can remember so well they lost their jobs, they were marginalized they were demoted for doing one of the most important jobs anybody in a society has; producing the next generation.”