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The Women's Center works for women's rights. While tremendous strides have been made since the early 1970's for some groups of women in the United States, other groups of women continue to experience extreme vulnerability, demeaning gender-based stereotypes, and gender-based poverty. In addition, the gains made by even the most privileged women, are constantly threatened by right wing conservatives.
Some Facts:
- Based on the 2000 census, on average women earn 25% less than men and they earn that percentage only if are able to work outside of the home full-time, year round.
- While women constitute more than 50% of the adult population in the United States, the majority of US public policy makers - both in Washington and in each state - are men.
- At every age, women are more likely to experience poverty than men.
- According to the 2000 US Census, ten million women are raising children alone. For every single father, there are 5 single mothers in the United States.
- Women continue to be the primary caretakers of children.
- Nurturing and care taking jobs, predominantly filled by women, are undervalued and underpaid or unpaid.
The intersection of race, class, and gender oppression is directly correlated to how vulnerable women are to poverty and homelessness. During the 1990's, state and national policy makers utilized race, class, and gender stereotypes to pass regressive and punitive welfare 'reform' initiatives. In turn, those new rules have a direct impact on:
- women's reproductive freedom;
- the poverty level of single parent families; and
- the amount of 'work' that single mothers are expected to do, without any guarantee of moving out of poverty.
The Women's Center promotes and supports public policy initiatives designed to:
- Value women;
- Value (both socially and economically) the work that women have traditionally done;
- Eliminate gender-based poverty;
- Broaden women's educational and work options;
- Protect women's health;
- Protect and broaden women's reproductive choices
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HUD plans cuts to Housing Voucher program. Single parent families will lose valable resources
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Support equal rights for women.
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