The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is establishing a new project, called the Women’s Law and Policy Project (WLPP), focusing on the needs of women and girls.
March 3, 2006 (Press Release) --
For Immediate Release:
March 3,2006
Contact:
Rikeesha Cannon, Media Coordinator
312.368.2677 or 217.671.1970
Wendy Pollack, WLPP Director
312.263.3830 ext. 238 wendypollack@povertylaw.org
New Focus on the Needs of Low-Income Women in the Midwest
(Chicago)—The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is establishing a new project, called the Women’s Law and Policy Project (WLPP), focusing on the needs of women and girls. The Shriver Center recognizes that successful strategies to end poverty must take gender into account. The reality is that women are more likely to be poor than men. U.S. Census Bureau data indicate a persistent difference in the poverty rates between men and women over the last 40 years.
“Our presence at the Shriver Center provides us access to subject-matter expertise on many of the issues keeping women in poverty,” says Wendy Pollack, the project director. “We have a proven track record of working on the issues that most impact the opportunities of women and girls to escape poverty.”
The Women’s Law and Policy Project will draw from the experiences of women and girls in the analysis of poverty and the development of policy solutions. From education to employment, housing to family law, health care and public benefit issues, the project understands how advocacy, public policy, and the law affect the opportunities of women and girls and their communities as a whole. The current policy practice areas of the new group include:
* Employment Law
* Education and Training
* Gender Equity
* Family Law
* Public Benefits
* Violence Against Women and Girls
Adding expertise to the new project is a 17-member advisory council of local and national advocates to offer insights and broader understanding of the complex issues affecting low-income women and girls. The members are Jacquelyn Boggess, Center for Family Policy and Practice; Dr. Beth Catlett, DePaul University Women's & Gender Studies Program; Sunny Fischer, The Richard Driehaus Foundation; Aviva Futorian; Maya Friedler; Elizabeth Gracie, O’Keefe Lyons & Hynes, LLC; Erica Hade, Illinois AFL-CIO; Deb Hass, Serendipity Counseling; Melissa Josephs, Women Employed; Jo Moore, Jo Moore Associates; Maria Del Socorro Pesqueira, Mujeres Latinas En Accion; Catherine L. Robb; Janice E. Rodgers, Quarles & Brady LLP; Esther Saks and Jane Saks, Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; Kaye Wilson; and KyungNan Yu, Korean American Women In Need (KAN-WIN).
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The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law champions economic opportunity
through fair laws and policies so that people can escape poverty permanently.
For Immediate Release:
March 3,2006
Contact:
Rikeesha Cannon, Media Coordinator
312.368.2677 or 217.671.1970
Wendy Pollack, WLPP Director
312.263.3830 ext. 238 wendypollack@povertylaw.org
New Focus on the Needs of Low-Income Women in the Midwest
(Chicago)—The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law is establishing a new project, called the Women’s Law and Policy Project (WLPP), focusing on the needs of women and girls. The Shriver Center recognizes that successful strategies to end poverty must take gender into account. The reality is that women are more likely to be poor than men. U.S. Census Bureau data indicate a persistent difference in the poverty rates between men and women over the last 40 years.
“Our presence at the Shriver Center provides us access to subject-matter expertise on many of the issues keeping women in poverty,” says Wendy Pollack, the project director. “We have a proven track record of working on the issues that most impact the opportunities of women and girls to escape poverty.”
The Women’s Law and Policy Project will draw from the experiences of women and girls in the analysis of poverty and the development of policy solutions. From education to employment, housing to family law, health care and public benefit issues, the project understands how advocacy, public policy, and the law affect the opportunities of women and girls and their communities as a whole. The current policy practice areas of the new group include:
* Employment Law
* Education and Training
* Gender Equity
* Family Law
* Public Benefits
* Violence Against Women and Girls
Adding expertise to the new project is a 17-member advisory council of local and national advocates to offer insights and broader understanding of the complex issues affecting low-income women and girls. The members are Jacquelyn Boggess, Center for Family Policy and Practice; Dr. Beth Catlett, DePaul University Women's & Gender Studies Program; Sunny Fischer, The Richard Driehaus Foundation; Aviva Futorian; Maya Friedler; Elizabeth Gracie, O’Keefe Lyons & Hynes, LLC; Erica Hade, Illinois AFL-CIO; Deb Hass, Serendipity Counseling; Melissa Josephs, Women Employed; Jo Moore, Jo Moore Associates; Maria Del Socorro Pesqueira, Mujeres Latinas En Accion; Catherine L. Robb; Janice E. Rodgers, Quarles & Brady LLP; Esther Saks and Jane Saks, Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media; Kaye Wilson; and KyungNan Yu, Korean American Women In Need (KAN-WIN).
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The Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law champions economic opportunity
through fair laws and policies so that people can escape poverty permanently.
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