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Employers make day to day decisions regarding pay and promotion, work environment, access to credit and markets, workplace savings and benefits.


Legal Protections


– The Right to Vote – Birth Control Rights


– Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (barred employment discrimination on the basis of race and sex)


– Affirmative Action to Include Gender


– Desegregation of “Want Ads” (opened the doors to higher paying jobs)


– Title IX of the Education Amendments (banned sex discrimination in schools)


– Roe v. Wade – Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act


– Pregnancy Discrimination Act (banned employment discrimination against pregnant women)


– Violence Against Women Act – Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act


Employers drive work-related policies and opportunities


Many challenges for women persist, even – after legal protections have been put in place, because market forces are so strongly driven by employers who make day to day decisions regarding pay and promotion, work environment, access to credit and markets, workplace savings, and employment benefits.


Since men are so much more firmly in control of large corporations and the highest earning, independently owned employer businesses – they are driving the characteristics of the whole business and employment marketplace.


Increase Business Influence


To fuel greater progress, we must secure greater strength as industry and employer market leaders.


Today Reliance on Legal Protections Legal Protections


Business Market


Leadership Tomorrow Stronger, Balanced Influence Legal Protections


Business Market


Leadership


Women-Led. Progress for All.


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