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- June 16, 2010 | News
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- Wyoming Women's Foundation Outlines Child-Care Problems
- March 10, 2010 | News
Casper Star-Tribune: A statewide tour of child-care facilities by the Wyoming Women’s Foundation found child care is becoming prohibitively expensive for an increasing amount of parents.
- Study: Median Wealth for Single Black Women at $5
- March 10, 2010 | News
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Women of all races bring home less income and own fewer assets, on average, than men of the same race, but for single black women the disparities are so overwhelmingly great that even in their prime working years their median wealth amounts to only $5.
Tags: Economic Security PA Poverty Race Wage Gap
- International Women’s Day Marked Around the World
- March 8, 2010 | News
Democracy Now!: Amy Goodman interviews Global Fund for Women CEO Kavita Ramdas about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Tags: Global Gender Human Rights
- International Women’s Day: Reasons to Be Optimistic About the Developing World
- March 8, 2010 | News
Change.org's Women's Rights Blog: Ruth Messinger, President of American Jewish World Service, says women are making positive changes happen in communities throughout the world.
Tags: Global
- International Women's Day: How to Reduce Violence and Poverty in 10 Years
- March 8, 2010 | News
Change.org's Women's Rights Blog: On the 99th annual International Women’s Day, activist Zainab Salbi says the world should be ashamed of the violence and poverty women still face around the globe. Here’s how to reverse the startling statistics within a decade.
- Report: Women Still Target of Discriminatory Laws
- March 6, 2010 | News
USA Today: Equality Now says many nations have failed to repeal discriminatory laws against women regarding marriage, economic and personal status, and violent acts including rape.
- Getting Personal: Not Your Parents' Philanthropy
- March 5, 2010 | News
The Wall Street Journal: The next generation of philanthropists is shifting dollars away from large established charities to smaller ones that allow donors to better see how each dollar is spent.
Tags: Philanthropy
- Show Me the Money: Women Still Need a Seat at the Table
- March 4, 2010 | News
Financial Planning: A Chinese proverb says that “women hold up half the sky,” and if that is true what does it mean that women make up only 16% of executive and board positions in the financial services industry and less than 10% in fund management?
- Where Were the Women at the Health-Care Summit?
- March 3, 2010 | News
The Daily Beast: If there were more women in Congress, might our politics be less rancorous and might our elected officials get more accomplished? Dan Rather speaks with the Institute for Inclusive Security.
- Girl Scouts, Moms Learn Merits of Thrift in Financial Workshop
- February 27, 2010 | News
The Kansas City Star: Nearly 150 girls and mothers attended “Making Cent$ in the City,” a one-day financial education workshop put on by the Women’s Foundation of Greater Kansas City and the Girl Scouts of Northeast Kansas and Northwest Missouri.
Tags: Economy Financial Literacy Girls MO Political Rights-Civic Participation
- Phone Drive Has Nice Ring to It
- February 25, 2010 | News
Memphis Commercial Appeal: Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Associates donated 624 cell phones, 540 chargers and 34 batteries during a cell phone recycling drive for The Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis.
Tags: Environment Poverty TN
- Poverty in Atlanta: You Can Help
- February 25, 2010 | News
Womenetics: The plight of all women is important to us, but the plight of our own women and girls trying to step up and out of poverty should be paramount.
- Montana Initiative Would Cap Rate on Payday Loans
- February 24, 2010 | News
The Missoulian: A coalition of state organizations, including Women's Foundation of Montana, will ask voters to cap at 36 percent the annual interest rates that payday lending businesses can charge, compared with the current 400 percent maximum.
Tags: Dismantling Poverty Economic Security MT Payday Lending Policy
- Report: Pittsburgh Families Headed by Women Hit Hard by Recession
- February 18, 2010 | News
Pittsburgh Business Times: The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research released a report that families headed by women have been hard hit by the recession and unemployment.
Tags: Economic Crisis Economy PA Recession Wage Gap Women's Economic Security
