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Does your organization have a plan for finding female employees, female customers,
women-owned vendors, etc?
If not, maybe you should, please read why!!!
Just The Facts...
Women in the U.S. spend more than $3.3 trillion annually (purchasing power)
Women business owners employ 35% more people than all the Fortune 500 companies combined (how many of your clients are women-owned?)
95% of family financial decisions are made by women (who balances the checkbook in your family?)
Women in business will invest $44.5 billion in high tech products this year
65% of women in senior management positions have children (they kept their job and are raising a family)
*Source: Women and Diversity, WOW Facts 2001 - Business Women's Network
Women and the Workforce/Jobs
The labor-market participation rate for women 25 to 44 years of age - the average child bearing years - rose from less than 20% to
more than 75% between 1900 and 1999 (Source: Business Week)
60% of US women work outside the home, earning $1 trillion each year in aggregate (Source: Chicago Tribune, 1999)
Net increase of the workforce between 1992 and 2005, 62% are projected to be women (Source: U.S. Federal Government, Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Of working married women, 48% provide half or more of the household income (they are the primary bread winner and if we pay well, they want your jobs)
(Source: Families and Work Institute Study)
99% of working women describe equal pay for equal work as extremely important aspect of their job to them.
Almost one-third say their current job does not provide equal pay for equal work (Source: AFL-CIO)
Vision:
We will create a coorperative venture among the many community and woman's organizations and
businesses to offer a venue that welcomes all women who are in search of
Empowerment thru Opportunity, Education and Economic Awareness.
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