Tomorrow is a big day
Thanks to your support, we're all about to make history. And we have a great story to tell just nine months into the life of our start-up non-profit. We want you to be among the first to hear it.
Soon after WomenCount launched the campaign last November calling for the creation of a Presidential Commission on Women, Rep. Jackie Speier of California received one of our e-mails. She was inspired, and immediately got to work on legislation supporting the cause.
Tomorrow - on the 92nd anniversary of Rep. Jeannette Rankin's swearing-in as the first woman Member of Congress - Rep. Speier will introduce a bill to create a Presidential Commission on Women.
For too long, women have been an afterthought when it comes to the political process. We've been counted out and left behind, and it's time we stood up and made our voices heard.
That's why WomenCount started the campaign to establish a Presidential Commission on Women. The Commission would provide an independent, thorough look at the lives of women in America -- in the home, in the workplace, raising our families, our health, our economic impact -- and make substantive policy recommendations that will help women move forward.
You've probably seen the news recently about President Obama creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. It's an important step, and we applaud the President for taking it.
But the White House Council serves a very different purpose than the Commission created by this bill. The Council coordinates all federal policy dealing with women's issues, whereas the Commission would take a step back and look at every aspect of life for women in America.
The Commission would develop the policies that create equality and opportunity for women, and work with the White House to implement those policies.
We can't think of a more important step for women in America than creating this Commission. Tell Congress to support a Presidential Commission on Women today!
Soon after WomenCount launched the campaign last November calling for the creation of a Presidential Commission on Women, Rep. Jackie Speier of California received one of our e-mails. She was inspired, and immediately got to work on legislation supporting the cause.
Tomorrow - on the 92nd anniversary of Rep. Jeannette Rankin's swearing-in as the first woman Member of Congress - Rep. Speier will introduce a bill to create a Presidential Commission on Women.
For too long, women have been an afterthought when it comes to the political process. We've been counted out and left behind, and it's time we stood up and made our voices heard.
That's why WomenCount started the campaign to establish a Presidential Commission on Women. The Commission would provide an independent, thorough look at the lives of women in America -- in the home, in the workplace, raising our families, our health, our economic impact -- and make substantive policy recommendations that will help women move forward.
You've probably seen the news recently about President Obama creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. It's an important step, and we applaud the President for taking it.
But the White House Council serves a very different purpose than the Commission created by this bill. The Council coordinates all federal policy dealing with women's issues, whereas the Commission would take a step back and look at every aspect of life for women in America.
The Commission would develop the policies that create equality and opportunity for women, and work with the White House to implement those policies.
We can't think of a more important step for women in America than creating this Commission. Tell Congress to support a Presidential Commission on Women today!
Posted by: Barnett Goodstein @ 06:52PM on April 06 2009
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Certainly, we do not want to earn the reputation that the Middle Eastern Arabic countries have in their treatmwent of girls amd women. Then vote dor this legislation.
Posted by: Trisha Mason @ 07:00AM on April 04 2009
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WE are 51% of the population and we vote.
Posted by: Sharron Powell @ 09:41PM on April 03 2009
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Please support a Presidential Commission on Women.
Thank you
Posted by: Leslie Kline Capelle @ 12:01PM on April 03 2009
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"Women hold up half the sky." I can think of no better perception of the role of women and girls in society. Desires for a better economic and social community in the US therefore require equality and opportunity for women and girls. To treat the status of women and girls as merely a supplement or appendix to existing policy is essentially to rob the future, because we would be allowing "half the sky" to fall.
Posted by: KATHLEEN COLVIN @ 09:55AM on April 03 2009
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This proposed legislation is long overdue, and the Commission will help focus attention on women's issues that have been marginalized for too long.
Posted by: Kathy Smith @ 10:56PM on April 02 2009
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Women have been an afterthought when it comes to the political process. We've been counted out and left behind.
The Commission would develop the policies that create equality and opportunity for women, and work with the White House to implement those policies.
Please support a Presidential Commission on Women.
Posted by: Paul Johnson @ 10:46PM on April 02 2009
Comment:
Now is the time to make changes in the way we treat Women.
Posted by: Wilma E Ralls @ 06:48PM on April 02 2009
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It is far past the time when women should have been equal in politics and in the work place, but that has not happened. The 'glass ceiling' no longer exists because women have ceased trying to break through instead leaving corporate america in droves to start their own businesses or to change their lifestyles substantially. This is a huge loss to America. Women are smarter, better managers, and more empathetic than men. With such skills, holding women down brings down countries and continues cultural pasts instead of the futures we all need.
Posted by: Dr. Kyle Nash @ 06:25PM on April 02 2009
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This is important!!!
Posted by: ann Watters @ 05:35PM on April 02 2009
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Equal rights as men and equal pay.
Posted by: tom & christine shaughnessy @ 03:47PM on April 02 2009
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women in america need equal rights, equal pay and the right to privacy over our lives and bodies. isn't it time?
Posted by: Eva Vangi-Stern @ 03:32PM on April 02 2009
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Women have already contributed a great deal to our society and to our country. We need this Commission to make certain that women have the same opportunities and equality to continue contributions.
Posted by: Claude Strebe @ 03:20PM on April 02 2009
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Everyone needs to stand and be counted without discrimination.
Posted by: Raymond Keeling @ 02:41PM on April 02 2009
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We need to monitor, reveal and take action to end the bias against girls and women that has gone on since the founding of our country.
Posted by: Barbara Speidel @ 01:01PM on April 02 2009
Comment:
Stop discrimination against women through a Presidential Commission on Women.
Posted by: Angela Mannino @ 12:53PM on April 02 2009
Comment:
It's about time... For years, when I was an executive in the Fashion Industry, making millions for manufacturers, my male counterpart always made more money and worked less. At least I was part of a generation that opened the doors to women to at least enter the world of executives.
Posted by: Barbara Bates @ 09:20AM on April 02 2009
Comment:
We do so much for so many people including our families and at work, please help us!
Posted by: Gwen Payne @ 02:49AM on April 02 2009
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I would like to support this bill, but historically there has been a disconnect between the attention paid to the lives of European-American women and African-American women. As an African-American woman, before I support a "women's commission," I would want to be sure that it would give equal weight to the lives of all ethnic groups of women.
Posted by: BettyJean Kling @ 07:56PM on April 01 2009
Comment:
Ladies- Please come on my blogtalkradio show and let's take this live for a nationwide push.
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