Events and Opportunities

Equality Can’t Wait!

Tuesday, May 7th, 7:00 pm

We are electing our first new mayor in 12 years. Now is the time to make sure the next leader of New York City puts equality at the top of their agenda. Hear from the candidates on the critical issues that impact women and girls and affect every New Yorker.

Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University
3 Spruce Street @William Street
New York City
Subways: N,R,4,5,6 to City Hall | 2,3 to Park Pl | J,Z to Fulton

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Join us for back-to-back debates and get answers to the questions no one else is asking.

Moderated by Joyce Purnick - Political analyst, former New York Times city columnist, and author of MIKE BLOOMBERG: Money, Power and Politics.

Candidates Participating

Democrats
Bill de Blasio
John Liu
Christine Quinn
Bill Thompson

Republicans
John Catsimatidis
Joe Lhota

Independent
Adolfo Carrión Jr.

Hosted by the National Organization for Women New York City, Pace University and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Pace

Forum Co-Sponsors
AAUW NYS, AAUW Empire State Virtual Branch, Equality Now, Hollaback, League of Women Voters of the City of New York, Ms. Foundation for Women, National Association of Female Executives, National Council of Jewish Women NY, New York Women’s Agenda, United Neighborhood Houses, Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York, Women’s City Club, YWCA of Brooklyn, YWCA of the City of New York, YWCA of Queens

More to do: The Road to Equality for Women in the United States

Wednesday, March 7, 2013, 1-2pm
Presentation from Deborah Jacobs, Vice President, Advocacy and Policy

This free webinar will discuss the Ms. Foundation's recently released, More to do: The Road to Equality for Women in the United States, report and will suggest policy recommendations that address the root causes of inequality.

Solutions like increased public funding for child care and early education, improved access to non-traditional jobs and an increased minimum wage would benefit women, who are disproportionately affected by unaffordable child care and lack of opportunities and who remain concentrated in low-wage jobs. The dramatic inequities in access to health care can be addressed through actions like the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, repeal of the Medicaid waiting period for immigrants and removal of legislative barriers to reproductive health care services, including abortion. To eliminate violence against women, the report advocates such policy changes as the establishment of national standards for child sexual abuse prevention for youth-serving organizations, increased resources to female service members who experience military sexual trauma and reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, including protections for immigrant, LGBTQ and Native American women.

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