Closing the Wage Gap
YWCA: Addressing economic disparity
Closing the Wage Gap
YWCA: Addressing economic disparity
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Urge your Senator: Support the MOMS Act
PROTECT MATERNAL HEALTH
Urge your Senator: Support the MOMS Act
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What's New
2019 National Conference: Dare To Be Powerful
YWCA USA Honors Extraordinary Women Leaders at National Conference Awards
Ensuring Safety and Opportunity for Immigrant Women
Simply Hiring People of Color Is Not a Racial Equity Strategy
When Women are Civically Engaged, Our Democracy is Stronger
YWCA Greater Cleveland: Providing Support for Women to Find Housing
2019 National Conference: Dare To Be Powerful
YWCA USA Honors Extraordinary Women Leaders at National Conference Awards
Ensuring Safety and Opportunity for Immigrant Women
Simply Hiring People of Color Is Not a Racial Equity Strategy
When Women are Civically Engaged, Our Democracy is Stronger
Act Now
In the U.S., an estimated 700 women die each year during childbirth or from pregnancy-related complications, and 50,000 nearly die. The statistics are even worse for Black women, who experience pregnancy-related deaths at at least 3 to 4 times the rate of white women. The vast majority of these deaths and complications could be prevented, but Congress must take action on this crisis.
Help protect mothers and pregnant people: Urge your Senator to co-sponsor the Modernizing Obstetric Medicine Standards (MOMS) Act (S. 116) TODAY!
On February 12th, the Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act (S. 463 / H.R. 1185) was re-introduced in Congress by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-3). The FAMILY Act provides crucial support for working women and families, particularly low wage workers who are disproportionately women and people of color.
Join YWCA in celebrating this exciting bill introduction and ACT NOW to urge your Member of Congress to co-sponsor this bill!
On April 4th, H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 (VAWA), passed through the House of Representatives! This critical and lifesaving legislation maintains the safety, resources, and protections that have been critical to all survivors, particularly women of color and other marginalized communities. Before VAWA is introduced in the Senate, take a moment to urge your Senators to stand with survivors!
Urge your Senators to support full funding of VAWA and to pass a substantially similar bill in the Senate.
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Health & Safety
YWCA & Planned Parenthood Chat/Text Program
As an organization that advocates for increased access to health care and education, and for the healthy and safety of all women and girls, YWCA is a proud national partner of Planned Parenthood’s Chat/Text program, which allows young people and adolescents to contact health educators through text or instant messaging to ask questions about birth control, emergency contraception, STD testing, pregnancy testing, or abortion.