Sunday, April 29, 2012

Women Teaming Up


Nowadays there are organizations and services that bring women together in support and recognition of their daily hardships. Women with similar issues come together to discuss their ongoing problems and address them, many of them hosting events and creating publications especially for women.

 Women of the Workforce (WOW) is an organization that provides strategies that addresses women's everyday challenges in the workforce.  Women from all across New York State meet to study and recognize organized labor, government, community based organizations, female veterans, immigrants and refugees and the education community. WOW plans the focus of regional events that helps to address these issues.

Some of these issues are as follows:

·         Challenges Women with Disabilities Face in the Workforce: Overcoming Barriers; Sharing Abilities

·         Women's Leadership: Empowering and Supporting Women
December 3, 2011

·         Filling the Gap: Programming for Female Veterans



Just two of the hundreds of women’s empowerment and workforce groups are www.femanist.com andwww.womenforwomen.org. These organizations also discuss the greatest need  for realizing women's empowerment:

(1) technology use

 (2) social norm change

 (3) economic resilience

In 2012, it is not uncommon to come across these kind of groups on a regular basis. You would not typically see this kind of recognition for a men’s group because it is the women who succumb to unequal treatment and discrimination.

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