Beginning at a breakfast fundraiser with Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama devoted his day to appealing to her most loyal supporters: women.

Speaking to about 2,800 at a campaign rally at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax, Va., Obama said that economic problems that affect women affect everyone. "When a job doesn't offer family leave, that also hurts families who may want to care for a newborn baby or an ailing parent. When there's no affordable child-care or after-school programs, that hurts children," he said. "When women only make 77 cents for every dollar that a man makes, that doesn't just hurt women. It hurts families."