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Immigration Is A Feminist Issue
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PA NOW SUPPORTS NOW MEMBERS IN THEIR 48-HOUR FAST ON NATIONAL MALL AS CULMINATION OF MONTH-LONG WOMEN’S FAST FOR FAMILIES After more than 1500 women fasted in 80 events across 35 states, Washington DC and Mexico City, 100 women converge in DC to host a “Courage Cafe” to feed the courage of Federal leaders to…
We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn’t a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change. Men have to demand that their wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters earn more—commensurate with their qualifications and not their gender. Equality will be achieved when men and women are granted equal pay and equal respect.
- Beyonce, The Shriver Report
Women’s Fast for Families
by Caryn Hunt •
On April 7-9, Harrisburg Area NOW President Shamaine Daniels will join National NOW President Terry O’Neill in a 48-hour Women’s Fast for Families, taking place on the National Mall in Washington, DC. 100 women leaders from across the country will gather for the event to demand fair immigration reform. This event is the culmination of…
Equality & Justice NOW: National NOW President Terry O’Neill
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Caryn Hunt talks to National Organization for Women President Terry O’Neill about reproductive justice and equality for women.
PA Reps Sims and Molchany Introduce Pay Equity Law
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Pennsylvania Representatives Brian Sims and Erin Molchany unveiled the pay equity law they were co-sponsoring on December 11, as part of the first package of bills rolling out for the Pennsylvania Agenda for Women’s Health. They officially introduced it on January 6th.
PA NOW Agenda for Women’s Health Statement of Support
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Pennsylvania NOW Supports the Pennsylvania Agenda for Women’s Health HARRISBURG, December 11, 2013- The Pennsylvania state chapter of the National Organization for Women (PA NOW) applauds the work of the House and Senate Women’s Health Caucuses as they roll out a comprehensive plan to address the real issues affecting Pennsylvania women today.…
Rep. Jim Roebuck On the Future of Education in Pennsylvania
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Representative Dan Frankel Unveils Pennsylvania Agenda for Women’s Health
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Pennsylvania House Women’s Health Caucus Chair Dan Frankel kicks off the December 11th press conference in Harrisburg to introduce the public to the Agenda for Women’s Health, a comprehensive, inclusive approach to addressing the true concerns and needs of women in the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania NOW, in coalition with many women’s advocacy groups in the state, including Women’s Law Project and Planned Parenthood, helped to shape the Agenda and issued this statement of support.
For the past few years, but especially since the 2010 midterm elections which put the Republican Party in leadership within the General Assembly, there has been one bill after another focused on bridging and eroding women’s right to an abortion in the Commonwealth, and no effort spent on trying to close the gender wage gap or to address many of the other issues of concern to Pennsylvania women. Hopefully this Agenda will begin to change the one-dimensional conversation House and Senate Republicans have engaged in about women’s health.
Equality & Justice NOW: Fracking & Endocrine Disruptors/Raising Women’s Voices Rally
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Caryn Hunt speaks with former Philadelphia City Health Commissioner Walter Tsou about the public health dangers of fracking and we go to Harrisburg for a rally protesting continued restrictions on access to abortion care.
