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"  Tuesday night the two candidates for President faced off for their second debate, this time in the form of a town hall with questions coming from undecided voters in the audience and moderator Candy Crowley.  We didn&amp;#039;t hear much from Barack Obama and Mitt Romney on women&amp;#039;s issues in the first debate, but they certainly voiced their opinions this time around. One of Mitt Romney&amp;#039;s phrases even turned into the latest Internet meme of the moment!  Here&amp;#039;s are some of the key quotes from both candidates on the lady issues of the day.  On Being Asked About Rectifying Pay Inequalities in the Workplace Barack Obama: &amp;quot;And this is one of the reasons why one of the first - the first bill I signed was something called the Lily Ledbetter bill. And it&amp;#039;s named\u2028after this amazing woman who had been doing the same job as a man for years, found out that she was getting paid less, and the Supreme Court said that she couldn&amp;#039;t bring suit because she should have found about it earlier, whereas she had no way of finding out about it. So we fixed that. And that&amp;#039;s an example of the kind of advocacy that we need, because women are increasingly the breadwinners in the family. This is not just a women&amp;#039;s issue, this is a family issue, this is a middle-class issue, and that&amp;#039;s why we&amp;#039;ve got to fight for it. Mitt Romney: &amp;quot;[Regarding his cabinet as governor] And I - and I went to my staff, and I said, &amp;#039;How come all the people for these jobs are - are all men.&amp;#039; They said, &amp;#039;Well, these are the people that have the qualifications.&amp;#039; And I said, &amp;#039;Well, gosh, can&amp;#039;t we - can&amp;#039;t we find some - some women that are also qualified?&amp;#039; And - and so we - we took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women&amp;#039;s groups and said, &amp;quot;Can you help us find folks,&amp;quot; and they brought us whole binders full of women. I was proud of the fact that after I staffed my Cabinet and my senior staff, that the University of New York in Albany did a survey of all 50 states, and concluded that mine had more women in senior\u2028leadership positions than any other state in America.&amp;quot; On Planned Parenthood, Including Contraception Barack Obama: &amp;quot;When Governor Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country, who rely on Planned Parenthood for, not just contraceptive care, they rely on it for mammograms, for cervical cancer screenings. That&amp;#039;s a pocketbook issue for women and families all across the country. And it makes a difference in terms of how well and effectively women are able to work. When we talk about child care, and the credits that we&amp;#039;re providing. That makes a difference in whether they can go out there and - and earn a living for their family.&amp;quot; Mitt Romney: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d just note that I don&amp;#039;t believe that bureaucrats in Washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not. And I don&amp;#039;t believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care of not. Every woman in America should\u2028 have access to contraceptives. And - and the - and the president&amp;#039;s statement of my policy is completely and totally wrong.&amp;quot; This is not what Governor Romney has said about this issue previously in the campaign. Do you think his stance has really changed?  How did you feel about the candidates opinions on issues that affect women? Tell us in the comments!  Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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