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Ohio women call on U.S. Senator Rob Portman to take action in Congress on equal pay: The women say that Portman puts Washington first, and not working women and families....State representative Janine Boyd, a Cleveland Heights Democrat, speaks on the issue in Cleveland....The women hold events on the issue in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and Columbus....Black women earn 63 percent of what non-Hispanic White women are paid in America, data show....Posted by Cleveland Urban News.Com Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman

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  Pictured are Ohio State Representative Janine Boyd (D-9) ( fourth from left), a Cleveland Heights Democrat, and other Dems before speaking during an event on Thursday in Cleveland, one also held that day by women's advocacy groups in the key Ohio cities of Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati. The progressive women, with some men standing with them,  demanded that U.S. Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, a Cincinnati Republican, take action in Congress on equal pay legislation. In addition to presenting petitions, the women also presented Portman with an artificial invoice for holiday meal for a family of four for ham, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and Christmas cookies, a message, they say, that represents the need for working class women to get pay equity like men as breadwinners also of American families. Ohio State Representative Janine Boyd (D-9),  a Cleveland Heights Democrat  whose ninth state House district includes Cleveland Heights, University Heights, Shaker Hei