WOMEN MAKING A DIFFERENCE
A Woman’s Nation
Maria Shriver, in partnership with the Center for American Progress,
launches a project on the modern American woman.
M
aria Shriver, who leads the to better understanding Ameri-
California Women’s Confer- can women today are invaluable,
ence—the pre-eminent and we look forward to the
forum for, by, and about American results of this work.”
women—is launching a multifac- “As a reporter by trade, I look
eted project in partnership with forward to working with CAP and
the Center for American Progress our other partners to take a factual
and the University of Southern look at the consequences of
California’s Annenberg Center on today’s economic realties,” said
Communication Leadership and Maria Shriver. “The world has
Policy. TIME magazine will also changed dramatically since my
be involved in research and uncle launched his commission in
reporting, as well as co-presenting 1961, and the fact is we need a new
discussions and roundtables portrait of the American woman
around the country. so we can better understand what
The project, A Woman’s she needs to be successful in this
Nation, will take a new, empirical complicated world. The truth is,
look at American women who for we are now what I like to call, ‘A
the first time in our nation’s histo- Woman’s Nation’.”
ry make up fully half of all workers Center for American Progress. “We The report will be co-edited by CAP
and are becoming the primary bread- look forward to teaming up with Maria Senior Economist Heather Boushey, a
winners in more families than ever Shriver on this important work.” widely respected expert on women and
before. The last expansive government proj- the economy, and Ann O’Leary, CAP
The project will include the Shriver ect centered on women was conducted senior fellow and executive director of
Report, which will combine the work under the presidency of John F. the Berkeley Center for Health, Eco-
of economists and academics to Kennedy, who appointed Eleanor Roo- nomic and Family Security at the Uni-
address the consequences of women’s sevelt in 1961 to chair a commission to versity of California Berkeley School of
more prominent economic status in the report on the status of women. A Law.
institutions that matter most in Ameri- Woman’s Nation will report its find- “Over the past generation, a seismic
can life, including government, busi- ings to the nation, Congress, and Presi- change has occurred in the family role
ness, faith, education, and health. The dent Obama, who recently signed an and work life of American women,”
report will also include data from executive order to establish a council to explained Heather Boushey. “Most
research and on-the-ground reporting coordinate the federal government’s married-couple families now have two
around the country, looking especially efforts to address the needs of women earners, and, compared to a generation
at the interplay between women and and girls. ago, many more families today are
men in our society today. “Examining ways to improve the headed by a single working parent. But
“We will take a hard look at how lives of women in this country is a our institutions and culture have not
women are doing in the United States noble cause, and I congratulate Maria fully adapted to this reality. A Woman’s
today and consider the central question Shriver and CAP on launching this Nation will take a hard look at this.”
of the role government, business, and new venture,” said White House A Woman’s Nation will include
faith organizations, as well as individ- Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett. “As a roundtables, a national poll, and inter-
ual women and men should play in true leader in this area, Maria brings views with icons of the women’s move-
supporting women’s role now in the the perspective of a professional jour- ment and other prominent leaders. The
workforce and the U.S. economy,“ said nalist, a working mother, and a care- preliminary report will be released in
John Podesta, president and CEO of the taking daughter. Maria’s contributions the fall, to be followed by a book. PWM
64 PROFESSIONAL WOMAN’S MULTICULTURAL MAGAZINE
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