On Tuesday, President Barack Obama said he would agree to the House Republicans' passage of immigration reform legislation in a piecemeal fashion if it means the bill will eventually pass. 

Obama recently implored House GOP members to pass comprehensive immigration legislation, which would give 11 million undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship and reform the immigration system. However, Republicans have been unwilling to come to a vote on the bill. 

"They're suspicious of comprehensive bills," Obama said at a Wall Street Journal CEO summit.

"But you know what? If they want to chop that thing up into five pieces, as long as all five pieces get done, I don't care what it looks like," he added, according to Agence France Presse. 

House Speaker John Boehner and other GOP members prefer a piecemeal approach to passing the reform bill, which would allow for votes on issues like border security and laborer visas.  

However, Obama does have some imperatives when it comes to the passage of the bill. The bill must include better enforcement of U.S. borders, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who pay a fine, and it must also address the status of children who are brought to the U.S. by parents who are undocumented. 

Women's groups are also speaking up about overhauling the immigration system. On Tuesday, women's groups went to the National Press Club to bring attention to the impact that immigration laws have on women, TIME confirms. 

"A vote against immigration reform, or inaction on this issue," said Pramila Jayapal, the co-chair of the women's immigration group We Belong Together, "is really a vote against women, children, and families."

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, who was honored today by President Obama, spoke on Tuesday about the large number of undocumented female immigrants, which is often forgotten. 

"The truth of the matter is," Steinem said, "there is an unrealistic portrayal of who immigrants really are."

Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Congressman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) also spoke on Tuesday about how women's issues need to be taken into account in regard to reform legislation.

"Our new immigration system is inadvertently disadvantaging women," said Sen. Hirono, who voted in favor of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Act in June. 

"Let's at least get a vote," Roybal-Allard said. "If we get a change to vote in the House, it will pass."

Yet, Speaker Boehner recently said that the Senate-passed bill will not come to a vote in the House before the end of the year. 

"I'm trying to find some way to get this thing done," Boehner said. But he added that the legislation is "not going to be an easy path forward."

Although the GOP is under pressure to appeal to Hispanic voters before the 2016 presidential election, many Republicans oppose reform. Many House Republicans see the reform bill's path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants as "amnesty."