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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet Clinton Library DOCUMENT NO. SUBJECT/TITLE DATE RESTRICTION AND TYPE 001. transcript off the record FLOTUS remarks at WLF function (political) (2 pages) 01/07/1997 Personal Misfile COLLECTION: Clinton Presidential Records First Lady's Office Speechwriting (Noa Meyer Subject Files) OA/Box Number: 13009 FOLDER TITLE: Working Women [Binder] [1] 2012-0869-S kc944 RESTRICTION CODES Presidential Records Act - 144 U.S.C. 2204(a)] Freedom of Information Act - 15 U.S.C. 552(b)| PI National Security Classified Information |(a)(1) of the PRA] b(1) National security classified information |(b)(1) of the FOIA| P2 Relating to the appointment to Federal office |(a)(2) of the PRA| h(2) Release would disclose internal personnel rules and practices of P3 Release would violate a Federal statute [(a)(3) of the PRAJ an agency |(b)(2) of the FOIA] P4 Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential commercial or b(3) Release would violate a Federal statute |(b)(3) of the FOIA] financial information |(a)(4) of the PRA] b(4) Release would disclose trade secrets or confidential or financial P5 Release would disclose confidential advice between the President information [(b)(4) of the FOIA] and his advisors, or between such advisors [a)(5) of the PRA b(6) Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of P6 Release would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy [(b)(6) of the FOIA] personal privacy [(a)(6) of the PRA| b(7) Release would disclose information compiled for law enforcement purposes |(b)(7) of the FOIA] C. Closed in accordance with restrictions contained in donor's deed b(8) Release would disclose information concerning the regulation of of gift. financial institutions |(b)(8) of the FOIA] PRM. Personal record misfile defined in accordance with 44 U.S.C. b(9) Release would disclose geological or geophysical information 2201(3). concerning wells |(b)(9) of the FOIA] RR. Document will be reviewed upon request. Working W omen Working Women Working A REPORT TO THE NATION Executive Summary WOMEN'S BUREAU U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR WOMEN WORK FOR PAY-in greater numbers, in launched Working Women Count! to ask more occupations, and for more years of their working women about their jobs-what they lives than ever before. Today, women make up like, what they do not like, and what they want nearly half of our nation's workforce, and a to change. staggering 99% of women in America will work We believed that if we spoke to women, for pay sometime during their lives. Nearly they would talk back. And they did. In record every woman has a stake in what happens in numbers. the workplace. In only four months, over a quarter of a Despite the importance of women to million women told us what it means to be a today's economy, not enough is known about working woman in America today. This report how women themselves evaluate their work reflects their concerns and experiences. lives. In May 1994, the Women's Bureau "Not the Run of the Mill Survey" unions, daily newspapers, national magazines As part of the Clinton administration effort to and Federal agencies-in all 50 States, the "reinvent government," Working Women Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico. Count! reached out on an unprecedented In addition to the popular questionnaire, scale with a publicly distributed questionnaire the Women's Bureau conducted a telephone asking women about their lives as workers. survey with a scientifically selected, national "This is not the run of the mill survey," random sample. This scientific sample provid- promised First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. ed a benchmark for evaluating the replies of "This is the experts themselves-working women who chose to be counted in response women-telling us what we need to do." to the public outreach. Unless otherwise The Women's Bureau enlisted more than noted, the figures used to discuss the results 1,600 partners to help distribute the question- of the Working Women Count! question- naire. The partners include more than 300 naire are drawn from the scientific sample. businesses, 900 grassroots organizations, 75 Findings: A Consensus for Change Working Women Count! paints a complex difficulty of balancing work and family portrait of American working women in the obligations. They report that problems with child care are deep and pervasive, 1990's. The voices of working women in this affecting families across the economic report reveal their pride and satisfaction at spectrum. being breadwinners for their families and a Opportunity Should Reflect the significant part of the American workforce. Value of Women's Work: Working women tell us they have valuable skills Fully 79% of respondents tell us that they and on-the- job experience, but often do either "love" or "like" their jobs overall. not get recognition and credit for what they can do-nor access to training to Working Women Count! also reveals a build their skills and increase their powerful consensus among working women marketability. On-the-job training. and giving about what is wrong with their jobs, and what employees more responsibility for how needs to be fixed-a consensus that crosses all they do their jobs, are cited by more than occupations and incomes, all generations and half of respondents as priorities for change. races, and all regions of the country. In addition, the priorities and concerns of Underscoring this consensus, respondents the women in the scientific sample mirror repeatedly express distress and frustration: those of the self-selected respondents to the they are distressed that their work at home and public questionnaire. This convergence points on the job continues to be devalued, and they to the depth of consensus among America's are frustrated with the visible and invisible working women. signs of inequality. Working Women Count! respondents Respondents are concerned about inci- speak with one voice on the following issues: dents of discrimination. However, the most Pay and Benefits Should Provide frequently described inequities, those that Economic Security: Working women tell us they are breadwinners, and frequently seem to weigh most heavily, are systemic. Time the sole support of their households. Yet, and again, women describe a work world that they are not getting the pay and benefits still compensates women in almost every job commensurate with the work they do. the level of responsibility they hold, or the and profession at a lesser rate than men, societal contribution they make. defines jobs done primarily by women as less Improving pay scales and health care insurance for all are the two top-ranking valuable, and fails to acknowledge that women priorities for workplace change of respon- are mainstays in both the workplace and the dents in both the scientific and popular samples. home. As a working mother from Louisiana Workplace Culture Should Support and Respect Families: writes, "My first priority is, and will always be, Working women tell us their families are to care for my family. However, I take my job very important to them. Yet, they feel that neither their employers nor public policy very seriously and I am entitled to receive the adequately recognize or support women's same compensation and consideration for what family responsibilities. I do as does any male working in a comparable The number one issue women want 10 bring to the President's attention is the capacity in the nation." Issues and Concerns The questionnaire surfaced a number of issues More than half of the sample, and concerns that are shared by working 61%, say they have little or no ability women from both the popular and scientific to advance. This increases to 69% for samples. The numbers cited are drawn from blue collar workers and 70% for technical the scientific survey: workers. Health and pension benefits are 14% of white women and 26% of critical concerns. Health care insurance women of color report losing a job or for all ranks as the number one priority for promotion on the basis of their gen- change. Forty-three percent of women der or race. While women of color who work part-time and 34% of women report a higher incidence of discrimina- over 55 years old lack health care insur- tion, both groups give high priority to ance. These percentages far exceed the "insuring equal opportunity"-50% of 18% of the general population who lack white women and 61% of women of color. health insurance. Fifty-seven percent of respondents give their pension plans neg- 63% of mothers with children age ative ratings, including 23% who have no five and under, and 61% of single pension at all. mothers, give high priority to getting paid leave to care for children or rela- Vacation and sick leave benefits tives. Almost half of the respondents of all are inadequate. While 14% of respon- ages and family situations support paid dents report having no sick leave, the fig- leave as a priority for change. ure for those earning less than $10,000 is 31%. Of respondents in blue collar OCCU- 56% of women with children age pations, 46% say they have either inade- five and under say "finding affordable quate vacation time or none at all. child care" is a serious problem, and over half of this group (53%) say "informa- Stress ranks as working women's tion about and support for dependent number one problem. This problem, care" is a high priority for change. identified by almost 60% of all respondents, cuts across income and occupational- 65% of women say "improving groups. It is particularly acute for women pay scales" is a high priority for in their forties who hold professional and change, and 49% say, "I don't get paid managerial jobs (74%) and for single what I think my job is worth." mothers (67%). Conclusions: Making Working Women Count! Working Women Count! gives voice to the children and creating some full-day, full-year hopes and concerns of America's working slots to better serve working parents. women. Most importantly, the administration is We heard a consensus for change across working to provide greater economic security occupations and incomes, across races, ages for all Americans. Expansion of the Earned and regions. Respondents told us: that child Income Tax Credit gives a boost to low-income care is hard to find and difficult to afford; that families with an unprecedented income sup- pay and benefits, especially health care, are plement. Passage of the School to Work neither sufficient nor secure; that training is Opportunities Act provides young women and valued by the professionals who have it and men with new opportunities for job training sought by the blue collar women who need it; and education and demonstrates the impor- that discrimination is experienced by women tance of investing in our future workforce. of all races; and that workplace inequalities on Through tough and consistent enforcement of the basis of gender are endemic and in need our labor laws, the Department of Labor has of remedy. been sending a clear signal to employers that Many of the problems women shared this administration is committed to promoting with us are also issues for working men. equal opportunity in the workplace and pro- While some of the obstacles respondents tecting all workers, regardless of gender, race, wrote about stem from discrimination, others age or ability. reflect the trend toward a workforce anxious Solutions to the problems Working about job insecurity, declining benefits, and Women Count! respondents have identi- stagnant wages. The stresses on working fami- fied must come from many quarters. lies affect all family members and, likewise, the Positive change will require a cooperative effort, remedies stand to benefit all. and the imaginations and talents of many indi- The Clinton administration shares viduals and organizations. More than 1,600 part- working women's concerns about these ners joined the Women's Bureau out of a shared problems and is actively working toward concern and desire to understand what working solutions. For example, the first piece of legis- women care about. Now each of us-govern- lation signed by President Clinton was the ment, business, unions, grassroots organiza- Family and Medical Leave Act, enacted in 1993 tions, and the media-has an important role to MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THIS after a ten-year congressional battle and two play. And we can each begin by discussing these PUBLICATION IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND MAY BE REPRODUCED, vetoes by the previous administration. It is an issues with our own co-workers, our own com- FULLY OR PARTIALLY, WITHOUT important step, and the first legislation in munity organizations, and our own families. We PERMISSION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SOURCE CREDIT decades to recognize the need for policy that must build the consensus documented in this IS REQUESTED BUT NOT REQUIRED. PERMISSION IS REQUIRED ONLY supports women's work and family responsibil- report into a national consensus for change. TO REPRODUCE ANY COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL CONTAINED HEREIN. ities. In 1994, the President signed the Head Our challenge? To build high performance Start Reauthoriza-tion bill, which provides for workplaces that fully and fairly value women as THIS MATERIAL WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE TO SENSORY IMPAIRED the expansion of this very successful child care equal partners in American life. INDIVIDUALS UPON REQUEST. VOICE PHONE: 202-219-6652 program-expanding the number of eligible TDD PHONE: 1-800-326-2577 America's working women have made their voices This report-an historic attempt to collect the views heard. In vast numbers and with extraordinary candor of working women-arrives in a Capitol that has and insight, women from every region of the country already begun to change. Much work remains to have responded to this unprecedented questionnaire improve the lives of working women. But already and told us about their lives. This report is the culmi- hopeful signs of progress are emerging throughout nation. the country. The report weaves a fabric of opinion and experi- The Clinton Administration began making ence that is as richly diverse as America's working progress almost immediately upon taking office. For women themselves. Yet these wide-ranging convic- example, the first bill President Clinton signed into tions are unified by a common thread: women- law was the Family and Medical Leave Act, which indeed, all working people-want the opportunity gives workers-men and women-unpaid time off and the resources to lead full, productive lives. They work to care for a new child or a sick relative. The want to be treated not as disposable parts, but as importance of this achievement cannot be underesti- essential assets. And they want to work in an environ- mated, coming as it did after a decade-long congres- ment that treats them with dignity, respects the impor- sional battle and two vetoes by the previous tance of their families, and invests in their skills. President. This legislation is a landmark achieve- Moving in this direction is essential. It's essential ment, the first legislation in decades to honor for reasons of fairness and equality, but it is equally an women's work and put families first. economic imperative. In today's economy, only one In addition, this year the President signed the resource offers an enduring competitive edge: people. Head Start Reauthorization bill, which expands this Everything else-machines, processes, raw materi- proven child care program. More children will now als-can be easily replicated. The only element that be able to participate, and there will be more full-day, cannot be easily duplicated is workers-their skills, full-year slots to better serve working parents. their creativity, their capacity to work together. The Administration is also forging solutions to Investing in America's workers is the key to com- working women's central concern: economic securi- petitive success. Private companies, government, and ty. Thanks to the School-to-Work Opportunities Act, labor unions must equip workers-whatever their more of our nation's young people-both young gender or race-with a set of flexible skills that they women and men-will be able to move smoothly can sharpen throughout their working lives. Working from the classroom to a job with a future. The women appreciate the urgency of this task. On-the-job Earned Income Tax Credit, part of the President's training was cited by more than half the women in this economic plan, is providing tax relief for fifteen mil- questionnaire as a priority for change. lion working families with modest incomes. And this The same is true for giving workers-especially Administration is vigorously enforcing the laws that women-authority on the job. This, too, is a matter of promote equal opportunity and prohibit discrimina- both equity and common sense. Workers who are tion based on race, gender, age or disability. treated fairly, who are respected, and who are given We've made a good start. And the voices of responsibility perform better and produce more. Our America's working women add the fuel to power best companies have recognized the value of flatten- even greater progress. ing their traditional hierarchies and pushing responsi- bility to the front-line workers who know the product and customers best. Still, not every organization is committed to investing in workers' skills and reorganizing the work- place. Some have opted for another route. And that is why it is also essential to block the low road of unsafe conditions, job discrimination, and meager wages. Fair To OBTAIN A COPY OF THE FULL REPORT, pay and adequate child care, the questionnaire results WORKING WOMEN COUNT! A REPORT TO THE NATION, reveal, are critical to working women and therefore PLEASE SEND A SELF-ADDRESSED MAILING LABEL TO: critical to the country. Providing safe, healthy, and WOMEN'S BUREAU family-friendly workplaces is a national priority. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR As we continue to reshape workforce policy- ATTN: WWC! REPORT together with employers, women's groups, and com- 200 CONSTITUTION AVE., NW munity and labor organizations-we will address the WASHINGTON, DC 20210 issues which working women themselves have SO forcefully and eloquently raised. ROBERT B. REICH KAREN NUSSBAUM SECRETARY OF LABOR DIRECTOR, WOMEN'S BUREAU Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Blank Sabrina - This is from the OVERVIEW first section, page The revolution for gender equality One of the defining movements of the 20th importance to the abolition of slavery, the century has been the relentless struggle for elimination of colonialism and the estab- The relentless gender equality, led mostly by women, but lishment of equal rights for racial and eth- struggle for gender supported by growing numbers of men. nic minorities. When this struggle finally succeeds-as it A full analysis of the historical and equality will must-it will mark a great milestone in political movement for gender equality change most of human progress. And along the way it will extends far beyond what can be covered in today's premises change most of today's premises for social, this Report. No numbers, no indices, no economic and political life. policy packages can capture the true for social, The Human Development Report has essence of that movement. But they can economic and consistently defined the basic objective of help propel that movement by providing the political life development as enlarging people's choices. background of professional analysis. At the heart of this concept are three essen- tial components: Equality of opportunity for all people in Human development, if not society: @ engendered, is endangered. That is the Sustainability of such opportunities simple but far-reaching message of this from one generation to the next. Report Empowerment of people so that they participate in-and benefit from-develop Human development is a process of en- ment processes. larging the choices for all people, not just Equal enjoyment of human rights by for one part of society: Such a process women and men is a universally accepted becomes unjust and discriminatory if most principle. reaffirmed by the Vienna declara- women are excluded from its benefits. And tion. adopted by 171 states at the World the continuing exclusion of women from Conference on Human Rights in June 1993. many economic and political opportunities It has many dimensions: is a continuing indictment of modern Equal access to basic social services. progress. including education and health. For too long, it was assumed that devel- Equal opportunities for participation in opment was a process that lifts all boats. political and economic decision-making. that its benefits trickled down to all income Equal reward for equal work. classes-and that it was gender-neutral in Equal protection under the law. its impact. Experience teaches otherwise. Elimination of discrimination by gender Wide income disparities and gender gaps and violence against women. stare us in the face in all societies. Equal rights of citizens in all areas of life, Moving towards gender equality is not a both public-such as the workplace-and technocratic goal-it is a political process. private-such as the home. It requires a new way of thinking-in which The recognition of equal rights for the stereotyping or women and men gives women along with men, and the determina- way to a new philosophy that regards all tion to combat discrimination on the basis people, irrespective of gender, as essential of gender, are achievements equal in agents of change. The human development paradigm, Barbados (rank 11), Hong Kong (17). the which puts people at the centre of its Bahamas (26), Singapore (28). Urugua: concerns, must thus be fully engendered. (32) and Thailand (33). These countries Any such attempt would embrace at least have succeeded in building the basic human the following three principles: capabilities of both women and men. with. Equality of rights between women and out substantial gender disparity: men must be enshrined as a fundamental But it is clear from the GDI estimates principle. Legal, economic, political or cul- that in no society do women enjoy the same tural barriers that prevent the exercise of opportunities as men. The top rank is equal rights should be identified and enjoyed by Sweden, with a GDI value of removed through comprehensive policy 0.92-compared with a maximum possible reforms and strong affirmative action. value of 1.00 (maximum achievement with The human Women must be regarded as agents and perfect equality). After the top 32 coun- development beneficiaries of change. Investing in tries, the GDI value drops below 0.80- women's capabilities and empowering showing how far women still have to travel paradigm must be them to exercise their choices is not only towards gender equality even in countries fully engendered valuable in itself but is also the surest that seem to be doing better on this score. way to contribute to economic growth and More disturbing is that as many as 45 coun- overall development. tries in the sample analysis are below a GDI The engendered development model, value of 0.5. showing that women suffer the though aiming to widen choices for both double deprivation of gender disparity and women and men, should not predetermine low achievement. how different cultures and different socie- Another interesting comparison is ties exercise these choices. What is im- between the overall HDI rank of a country portant is that equal opportunities to make and its gender-adjusted rank for the GDI- a choice exist for both women and men. since this shows how equitably basic human capabilities are distributed between men and women. The countries showing GDI In no society do women enjoy the same ranks markedly higher than their HDI ranks opportunities as men are fairly diverse. They include Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland-and the An innovation of this year's Report, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary; and gender-related development index (GDI), Poland-and Barbados, Thailand, Sri reflects gender disparities in basic human Lanka, Malaysia, Jamaica and Cuba. capabilities-and ranks 130 countries on a The countries with GDI ranks markedly global scale. The four top countries are in below their HDI ranks include Argentina. the Nordic belt-Sweden, Finland, Nor- Chile, Costa Rica and several Arab states. way and Denmark, in that order. This is Arab countries face a formidable agenda hardly surprising. These countries, much for equalizing gender opportunities- concerned with ending the relative depri- though they have made the fastest progress vation of women, have adopted gender in the past two decades in several gender- equality and women's empowerment as related indicators, particularly in female conscious national policies. In these coun- education. tries, adult literacy rates are similar for Among the countries with sharply lower women and men, and combined enrolment GDI ranks are four industrial countries- is higher for females. Life expectancy is, on Canada (a drop from HDI rank of 1 to GDI average, about seven years higher for rank of 9), Luxembourg (-12). the women (compared with an estimated global Netherlands (-16) and Spain (-26 ranks). biological edge of five years). And women's The real difference is in women's share of earned income is around three-fourths of earned income compared with men's men's income. share-a reflection of the much lower Several developing countries and areas participation of women in the labour force also do quite well in the GDI rankings: and their lower average wage. 20% faster than male life expectancy over Removing gender inequality has the past two decades. nothing to do with national income High fertility rates. which severely restrict the freedom of choice for women, Income is not the decisive factor. Several of have fallen by a third-from 4.7 live births the world's poor nations have been able to per woman in 1970-75 to 3.0 in 1990-95. raise female literacy rates. With limited Life choices are expanding as women are resources but a strong political commit- progressively liberated from the burden of ment, China, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe frequent child-bearing and from the risk of raised adult women's literacy to 70% or dying in childbirth. Maternal mortality more. By contrast, several richer countries rates have been nearly halved in the past lag behind. two decades. The decision to invest in the education More than half the married women of still and health of people, irrespective of gender, reproductive age in the developing world, unequal world seems to cut across income levels, political or their partners, used modern contracep- ideologies, cultures and stages of develop- tives in 1990, compared with less than a ment. In many cases, a strong political com- quarter in 1980. This planned parenthood mitment has driven efforts to improve has brought women much greater control women's human development despite a over their lives. shortage of resources. Countries applying In adult literacy and school enrolment, socialist models, for example, used social the gaps between women and men were and political mobilization to achieve rapid halved between 1970 and 1990 in develop- -and equal-progress in education and ing countries. Women's literacy increased health for men and women and to engineer from 54% of the male rate in 1970 to 74% social transformations to expand opportu- in 1990-and combined female primary nities for women. and secondary enrolment increased from Comparing GDI ranks with the income 67% of the male rate to 86%. Female rates levels of countries confirms that removing of adult literacy and combined school enrol- gender inequalities is not dependent on ment in the developing world increased having a high income. China is ten GDI twice as fast as male rates between 1970 ranks above Saudi Arabia, even though its and 1990. real per capita income is a fifth as high. The Arab States have led the advance in Thailand outranks Spain in the GDI, even women's education, more than doubling though Thailand's real per capita income is female literacy rates. Indeed, the fastest less than half of Spain's. Poland's GDI rank improvement in women's literacy rates-68 is 50 places higher than Syria's, even though percentage points between 1970 and the two countries have about the same real 1990-took place in the United Arab income. So, gender equality can be pursued Emirates. -and it has been-at all levels of income. Overall, female primary enrolment in What it requires is a firm political commit- developing countries increased 1.7% a year ment. not enormous financial wealth. during 1970-90, compared with 1.2% for male enrolment. Girls' combined primary and secondary enrolment in the developing Every country has made progress in world jumped dramatically, from 38% in developing women's capabilities, but 1970 to 68% in 1992. East Asia (83%) and women and men still live in an unequal Latin America (87%) are already approach- world ing the high levels in industrial countries (97%). Gender gaps in education and health have Also remarkable is the rapid closing of narrowed rapidly in the past two decades, the gap in higher education. In developing aithough the pace of this progress has been countries, female enrolment at the tertiary uneven between regions and countries: level was less than half the male rate in Female life expectancy has increased 1970, but by 1990 it had reached 70%. In 3 32 countries, more women than men are 1990. Compare that with a two-thirds now enrolled at the tertiary level. increase in female adult literacy and But it is still an unequal world. Among school enrolment. the developing world's 900 million illiterate Women receive a disproportionately people, women outnumber men two to one. small share of credit from formal banking And girls constitute 60% of the 130 million institutions. They are assumed to have no children without access to primary school. collateral to offer-despite working much Because population has grown faster than harder than men. For example. in Latin women's education has expanded in some America and the Caribbean, women consti- developing regions, the number of women tute only 7-11% of the beneficiaries of who are illiterate has increased. credit programmes. During the 20 years from 1970 to 1990, Women normally receive a much lower The doors to only half the educational gap between men average wage than men, because they hold economic and and women was closed. Another 20 years is low-paying jobs or work in the informal sec- too long to wait to close the remaining half. tor and because they are sometimes paid political Women's special health needs also suf- less than men for equal work. The average opportunities are fer considerable neglect. Many developing female wage is only three-fourths of the barely ajar countries do not provide qualified birth male wage in the non-agricultural sector in attendants, good prenatal or postnatal care 55 countries that have comparable data. or emergency care during deliveries. In All regions record a higher rate of unem- most poor countries, pregnancy complica- ployment among women than men. tions are the largest single cause of death In developing countries. women still among women in their reproductive years. constitute less than a seventh of adminis- Nearly half a million maternal deaths occur trators and managers. each year in developing countries. Too Women still occupy only 10% of the par- often, the miracle of life becomes a night- liamentary seats and only 6% of the cabinet mare of death. positions. In 55 countries, there are either no women in parliament or fewer than 5%. While doors to education and health These countries range from very poor opportunities have opened rapidly for (Bhutan and Ethiopia) to reasonably afflu- women, the doors to economic and ent (Greece, Kuwait, the Republic of Korea political opportunities are barely ajar and Singapore). Despite considerable progress in de- Major forces in closing the gender gaps veloping women's capabilities. their partici- over the past two decades are higher female pation in economic and political decision- enrolments at all levels in developing making remains very limited. countries-and rising women's paid em- Another innovation of this year's ployment in industrial countries. But the Report, the gender empowerment mea- opportunities open to women have sure (GEM), looks at women's represen- remained limited. The Report marshals tation in parliaments, women's share of detailed evidence of the unequal access to positions classified as managerial and pro- opportunities. Some telling examples: fessional, women's participation in the Poverty has a woman's face-of 1.3 bil- active labour force and their share of lion people in poverty; 70% are women. The national income. It ranks 116 countries increasing poverty among women has been with comparable data. linked to their unequal situation in the Once again, the Nordic countries lead labour market, their treatment under social the world, with Sweden and Norway on welfare systems and their status and power top. These countries are not only good at in the family. strengthening female capabilities but have Women's labour force participation also opened many opportunities in eco- has risen by only four percentage points in nomic and political fields. The Nordic 20 years-from 36% in 1970 to 40% in countries have crossed the critical 30% FIGURE 1 Expanding capabilities, limited opportunities The numan development index (MDI) measures the The gender-related development incex (GDI) The gender empowerment measure (GEM) exam- average schievement of a country in basic human measures achievement in the same basic ines whether women and men are abie to actively cases tres. The HDI indicates whether people lead capabilities as the HDI does, but takes note of participate in economic and political life and take 3 crip and healthy life, are educated and know- inequality in achievement between women part in decision-making. ecgaso 2 and enjoy a decent standard of living. and men. Global comparisons GNP Industrial per capital countries (1992) $21,352 1.000 HDI value Developing GDI value GEM value countries Industrial $924 0.900 countries Economic and political opportunities 0.800 are universally denied to women in both industrial and developing countries. 0.700 World 0.600 Developing countries Industrial countries 0.500 0.4CO Developing countries as a group have attained an HDI two-thirds that of industrial countries despite World Expanding human capabilities 0.300 an average income of less than are increasingly more equally shared. Developing countries one-twentieth that of industrial countries. 0.200 Regional comparisons GNP Latin America and the Caribbean cecTa $2.799 992 Arab States $1,662 Asia Sub-Saharan Least $638 Africa developed $365 countries $356 1.000 HDI value GDI value GEM value 0.900 c.aco Latin America and the Caribbean 0.700 Arab States 0.600 Asia 0.5CO Sub-Saharan 0.400 Africa Latin America and the Caribbean Least CECO developed Asia countries Sub-Saharan Africa Least developed countries 0.200 Arab States : gures are calculated for the 104 countries for which estimates of HDI. GDI and GEM are available. The graphs include 27 countries in Africa. 11 Arab States. 17 countries in Asia. es in Latin America and the Caribbean and 28 of the least developed countries. 5 threshold for women's participation in three-quarters of men's work is in market these spheres of life. activities. So, men receive the lion's share of Only nine countries have GEM values income and recognition for their economic above 0.6, compared with 66 countries with contribution-while most of women's work a GDI value above 0.6. On the other hand, remains unpaid, unrecognized and under- 39 countries have a GEM value below 0.3, valued. compared with only 13 countries with a With no economic value given to these GDI value below 0.3. Since the GDI mea- activities, the contribution of women is sures gender equality in basic human capa- seriously underestimated, and there is no bilities and the GEM gender equality in adequate reward or recognition for the bur- economic and political opportunities, this den of work that women carry: In fact, the comparison makes it clear that many coun- failure to value most of their work reduces The non- tries have a longer distance to travel in women to virtual non-entities in most eco- monetized, extending broad economic and political nomic transactions-such as property own- opportunities to women than they have ership or offering collateral for bank loans. invisible already traveled in building basic female Since status in contemporary society is contribution of capabilities. so often equated with income-earning women is S11 But it is precisely the participation of power, women suffer a major undervalua- women at the highest decision-making lev- tion of their economic status. But they carry trillion a year els in political and economic life that can a higher share of the total work burden. drive the change for greater equality And men's work in the market-place is between men and women. often the result of "joint production", not a solo effort, since much of it might not be possible if women did not stay at home A major index of neglect is that many of looking after the children and household. women's economic contributions are If women's unpaid work were properly grossly undervalued or not valued at valued, it is quite possible that women all-on the order of $11 trillion a year would emerge in most societies as the major breadwinners-or at least equal breadwin- The undervaluation of women is reflected ners-since they put in longer hours of in the undervaluation of their work and in work than men. the absence of recognition of the contribu- The monetization of the non-market tion that they make. The debate therefore work of women is more than a question of must cover equality of rewards as well as justice. It concerns the economic status of equality of opportunity. Data on time use by women in society. If more human activities women and men for a sample of 31 coun- were seen as market transactions at the pre- tries tell a dramatic story: vailing wages, they would yield gigantically Women work longer hours than men in large monetary valuations. A rough order of nearly every country: Of the total burden of magnitude comes to a staggering S16 tril- work, women carry on average 53% in lion-or about 70% more than the officially developing countries and 51% in industrial estimated $23 trillion of global output. This countries. estimate includes the value of the unpaid On average, about half of this total work work performed by women and men as well time of both men and women is spent in as the value of the underpayment of economic activities in the market or in the women's work in the market at prevailing subsistence sector. The other half is nor- wages. Of this $16 trillion, $11 trillion is the mally devoted to unpaid household or com- non-monetized, invisible contribution of munity activities. women. Of men's total work time in industrial Such a revaluation of women's work will countries, roughly two-thirds is spent in thoroughly challenge the present conven- paid activities and one-third in unpaid tions. For husbands to share income with activities. For women, the situation is the their wives will become an act of entitle- reverse. In developing countries, more than ment rather than benevolence. The basis of 6 property rights, divorce settlements, collat- It scars early life. A third of the women eral for bank credit-to name only a few in Barbados, Canada, the Netherlands, areas-will have to change completely. Men New Zealand, Norway and the United will also have to share more of the burden States report sexual abuse during child- of household and community work. hood or adolescence. An estimated one mil- If national statistics fully reflect the lion children. mostly girls in Asia, are forced "invisible" contribution of women, it will into prostitution annually. And an esti- become impossible for policy-makers to mated 100 million girls suffer genital ignore them in national decisions. Nor will mutilation. women continue to be regarded as eco- It becomes a part of marriage. Studies in nomic non-entities in market transactions. Chile, Mexico, Papua New Guinea and the Republic of Korea indicate that two-thirds or more of married women have experi- Another major element of enced domestic violence. In Germany, it is discrimination is the unacceptably low estimated that up to four million women a status of women in society, with year suffer from domestic violence. continuing legal discrimination and It is sometimes manifested in rape. Studies violence against women from Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States suggest The starkest reflection of the low status that about one woman in six is raped in her accorded to women is the discrimination lifetime. against them in the law. In many countries, It may end in murder. More than half of women still are not treated as equal to all murders of women in Bangladesh, men-whether in property rights, rights of Brazil, Kenya, Papua New Guinea and inheritance, laws related to marriage and Thailand are committed by present or for- divorce, or the rights to acquire nationality, mer partners. manage property or seek employment. Or in suicide. Cross-cultural evidence In 1979, the United Nations approved from Africa, South America, several the Convention on the Elimination of All Melanesian islands and the United States Forms of Discrimination Against Women established marital violence as a leading (CEDAW), a path-breaking charter of the cause of female suicide. legal and human rights of women. But 41 Although violence stalks women's lives. UN member states still have not signed the laws can do little unless present cultural and convention, 6 have signed without ratifica- social values change. tion, and 43 have ratified the convention with reservations about some of its provi- sions. In other words, 90 countries have not The revolution towards gender equality yet accepted all the tenets of legal equality must be propelled by a concrete strategy for women and men. Even in some coun- for accelerating progress tries ratirying CEDAW, the implementation of the convention has remained half- Engendering the development paradigm hearted and incomplete. So, even under involves radical change in the long-standing law, the equality of women is not yet assured premises for social, economic and political in many societies-let alone in practice. life. And the free workings of economic and The most painful devaluation of women political processes are unlikely to deliver is the physical and psychological violence equality of opportunity; because of the pre- that stalks them from cradle to grave. For vailing inequities in power structures. When too many women, life is shadowed by a such structural barriers exist, government threat of violence. intervention is necessary-both through The devaluation begins even before life comprehensive policy reforms and through begins. In some countries, testing is used to a series of affirmative actions. determine the sex of the fetus, which may Each nation will need to adopt its own be aborted if it is female. agenda for overcoming obstacles to equal rights. This Report identifies a five-point tries. maternity leave was changed from strategy for accelerating progress. protecting mothers' health after birth to providing parents with legal rights for 1. National and international efforts must parental care. The concept of paternity be mobilized to win legal equality within of leave supplemented maternity leave. Japan defined period-say the next ten years. To introduced parental leave in 1992-for achieve this objective. the international both mother and father. The United States community will need to move on several in 1994 endorsed limited parental leave, fronts: but without pay: A campaign should be launched for The Nordic countries have perhaps unconditional ratification of CEDAW by traveled furthest. In Finland starting in the 90 UN member states that have not yet 1990. parents could choose between two Government signed or ratified it or that have entered alternatives: after a 12-month maternity intervention is reservations. Public pressure should be leave. either parent can stay at home until mobilized for this purpose. the child is three years old, with monetary necessary-through The monitoring of CEDAW's imple- compensation and job guarantees. Or the policy reforms and mentation should be strengthened within community must arrange for child care affirmative actions the UN system. and regular, candid reports while parents work outside the home. Some should be published on legal discrimination Nordic countries have legislation that in countries. allows parents to reduce their daily working An international non-governmental hours to take care of family commitments: organization-Woric Women's Watch- since 1976, Finland has allowed parents of should be set up to prepare country-by- children under age four-and Sweden par- country reports on key aspects of legal ents of children under age ten-the right to discrimination and on progress towards shorten their workday by two hours. gender-related targets fixed by national FLENIBLE WORK SCHEDULES. If workers governments and international forums. It were to have the opportunity to stagger could base its reports on information from their working hours, they would be in a bet- national NGOs and mobilize préssure ter position to combine paid work with groups and political lobbies in alliances for other responsibilities, such as child care. change. Sweden already allows interim part-time Pools of legal professionals should be work. with the option to return to full-time organized to offer legal advice for winning hours. so that women and men can combine equality before the law. a career with family commitments. Ger- Legal literacy campaigns could be orga- many and Japan have devised "flextime" nized to make women aware of their legal practices to enable their workers to com- rights and to encourage more women to bine their family needs with production study law through the generous provision schedules. And increasingly. employers are of scholarships. allowing workers to work out of the home To facilitate women's access to legal or to bring their home to work by provid- systems. it may be desirable to set up legal ing child care at the workplace ombudswomen at national and global EXPANDING THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC SERVICES levels. Some countries have expanded public ser- Violence against women as a weapon of vices beyond education and health to child war should be declared a war crime, pun- care, including public day-care centres and ishable by an international tribunal. school lunches. The private sector could also provide such services, helping women 2. Many economic and institutional and men to pursue careers. arrangements may need revamping to extend CHANGING TAX AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN- more choices to women and men in the work- CENTIVES Some countries have revised their place. For example: tax and social security systems to ENCOURAGING MEN TO PARTICIPATE IN FAMILY accommodate family structures different CARE In the 1980s. in most industrial coun- from the one-breadwinner, two-adult fam- 8 ily norm. Sweden has separate taxation for difference in enabling women to gain more part-time and full-time work to increase equitable access to economic and political after-tax earnings for part-time work. In opportunities. Zambia. an income tax amendment was Analysis of experience shows that in introduced in 1987 allowing women to three critical areas-access to education, claim child allowances and deductions on reproductive health and credit resources- their insurance contributions-and remov- women face barriers that can be overcome ing some tax discrimination against women. only through determined policy action. As CHANGING LAWS ON PROPERTY, INHERITANCE long as these barriers persist, women will AND DIVORCE. Once women are recognized as not have equal access to opportunities and the main or equal "breadwinners" in most to the benefits of development. families. a convincing basis exists for a more The returns from educating girls have equitable sharing of rights in property, few parallels in any other type of social inheritance and divorce. The distribution of investment. There are measurable benefits land during agrarian reform would require for women, for their families and for the joint landholding, with women having equal community. If universal girls' enrolment is access to assets. Current restrictions on to be ensured at primary and secondary lev- women's collateral for bank loans would no els over the next 15 years, an additional longer hold. investment of S5-6 billion a year is These changes cannot all originate from required. the state. Many will start from movements The International Conference on Pop- in civil society: And some must come from ulation and Development in Cairo in changes in the business community. September 1994 underlined the principle "that advancing gender equality and equity 3. A critical 30% threshold should be and the empowerment of women, and the regarded as a minimum share of decision- elimination of all kinds of violence against making positions held by women at the national women, and ensuring women's ability to leve! Few countries have reached or even control their own fertility, are cornerstones approached this target, recommended in of population and development-related 1990 by the UN Commission on the Status programmes". of Women. In parliamentary or cabinet rep- Choice in the spacing and number of resentation, only Denmark, Finland, the children has enabled women to control their Netherlands, Norway, Seychelles and life choices. It has meant control over how Sweden have crossed the 30% threshold. their time is spent, released them from con- Progress is somewhat better in administra- tinuous child-bearing and child-rearing and tive and managerial positions (15 countries enabled them to participate more freely in have crossed the 30% threshold) and in public life. But half a million women die municipalities (8 countries). But most coun- every year from pregnancy-related causes, tries are still far from this 30% threshold in and millions more are disabled. The Cairo many of the key decision-making fields. conference estimated that attaining com- The Report recommends that each prehensive coverage of family planning over nation identify a firm timetable for crossing the next decade would require an additional the 30% threshold in some key areas of investment of $5-6 billion a year. A similar decision-making. The 30% threshold should amount would be required for reproductive be regarded as a minimum target, not as the health services. The policy challenge is not ultimate goal. But achieving this threshold only providing services, but ensuring that would build considerable momentum for these policies and services enable women to attaining complete equality. make free choices on their own. Access to productive resources is critical -: Key programmes should embrace to enhancing women's economic choices. universal female education, improved repro- For low-income women-the vast majority ductive health and more credit for women. of women in the world-lack of access to These programmes can make a decisive bank credit is a persistent barrier to attain- ing economic independence and widening to encourage self-employment schemes, choices. Experience in many countries microenterprises and opportunities for the demonstrates that poor women invest poor to enter the market. money wisely and make sound decisions to TARGETED PROGRAMMES FOR POVERTY REDUC- maximize returns. The policy challenge is to non. Poverty reduction requires an overall support effective grass-roots credit schemes national strategy on many fronts. But it also and intermediaries and to ensure that low- demands some targeted programmes and income women have assured credit from affirmative action for the poorest groups- the formal financial system. among them landless peasants. urban slum dwellers, deprived ethnic minorities, eco- 5. National and international efforts nomically disenfranchised women. should target programmes that enable people, CAPACITY BUILDING AND EMPOWERMENT. The particularly women, to gain greater access to Considerable decentralized capacity will economic and political opportunities. Some have to be built in each country-in the elements in such a package: public sector, in the private sector and BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES FOR ALL. As endorsed among grass-roots organizations-so that by the Social Summit in Copenhagen, inter- disenfranchised groups can participate in at the ested developing countries should move designing and implementing the new pro- progressively towards earmarking at least jects and programmes. 20% of their budgets-and interested donor nations 20% of their aid budgets- to human priority concerns. including basic education, primary health care, safe drink- What vision should inspire gender relations ing water, family planning services and in the 21st century? A new world order that nutrition programmes for the most would embrace full equality of opportunity deprived people. between women and men as a basic con- REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE. Although pri- cept. It would also eliminate the prevailing mary health care and essential family plan- disparities between men and women and ning services are already included in the create an enabling environment for the full 20:20 compact, they need to be supple- flowering of the productive and creative mented by another $5-10 billion to ensure potential of both the sexes. reproductive health care services. These This new world order would promote additional sums should be priority items in more sharing of work and experience the enlarged effort. between women and men in the workplace CREDIT FOR POOR PEOPLE. As argued as well as in the household. It would respect above, access to credit is one of the key ele- women as essential agents of change and ments in empowering people and in development and open many more doors to enabling them to participate in market women to participate more equally in eco- opportunities. Since formal credit institu- nomic and political opportunities. And it tions rarely lend to the poor, special institu- would value the work and contribution of tional arrangements may become necessary women in all fields on par with those of to extend credit to those who have no col- men, solely on merit, without making any lateral to offer but their enterprise. distinction. SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD FOR ALL Remu- The new world order would thus put nerative employment opportunities are the people-both women and men-clearly at key to the attack on poverty: But not all of the centre of all development processes. them need to be in the formal, organized Only then can human development be- sectors of the economy: What is essential is come fully engendered. 10 Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Blank Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Blank gile S America THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 21, 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT FROM: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON HRC CC: SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TONY LAKE USAID ADMINISTRATOR BRIAN ATWOOD SUBJECT: REPORT ON LATIN AMERICA TRAVEL OCTOBER 12-17, 1995 Thank you for asking me to travel to Latin America. The purpose of my six-day visit to Nicaragua, Chile, Brazil and Paraguay was to advance the Administration's goals to alleviate poverty; promote universal, quality education; provide wider access to health care; and protect the rights of women and children throughout the Western Hemisphere. These United States goals were endorsed in Miami at the Summit of the Americas by the hemisphere's thirty-four democratic leaders and addressed directly by the hemisphere's First Ladies at the Symposium on Children. During the trip, I stressed that only with persistent progress on social goals will the region be able to attain and sustain democracy and economic prosperity. This message was received with enthusiasm. I sensed a real commitment to tackle difficult but critical social issues and saw firsthand the region's incredible recent progress. As I traveled, I found that representatives of the entire political spectrum -- even in countries with a recent history of severe political polarization like Nicaragua and Chile -- now understand the compelling arguments for social progress. Media coverage on this message was universally positive. Political leaders repeatedly made reference to the commitments made in Miami. This is particularly true for the social issues. The Latin American representatives had pushed the hardest in the preparatory sessions leading up to Miami for a strong focus on poverty eradication. It was in fact the Central Americans, working with a hemispheric coalition of private-sector and NGO leaders, who first proposed what became the Summit's initiative on women's 2 rights. There were also repeated references to the United Nation's Fourth World Conference on Women and the issues of the Conference -- microenterprise; comprehensive health care, including family planning; education; programs that value women as full and equal partners in society; freedom from violence; full political participation for women. These themes were underscored again and again. Schedule of Speeches and Site Visits In each country, through public remarks and site visits, I sought to focus attention on one or more critical social issues: Nicaragua In Nicaragua, I focused on the theme of the rights of women and children. President Violeta Chamorro had been the leading sponsor of the Summit's initiative on women's rights. In an economically depressed barrio, I visited a community-run bank which makes small loans to women microentrepreneurs. There, I observed the transforming impact that credit has had on lives and livelihoods. I also visited a primary health care clinic which is part of Nicaragua's new decentralized public health delivery system, and I engaged in a discussion with patients and staff. Both of these projects are supported by USAID. My speech in Nicaragua drew linkages between social investments and durable democracy through the metaphor of family: "We see that through better health, education, and good jobs, women are building stronger families. We see that through democratic reconciliation and invest- ments in people, Nicaragua is building a stronger national family. And we see that, as the Nicaraguan family unites and your economy grows, your nation will continue to be a vital partner in building a hemispheric family of democracies." I also had the opportunity to visit with President Chamorro at her residence and talk informally with her about Nicaragua and its challenges. Mrs. Chamorro hosted a luncheon to which she invited members of her Cabinet, particularly those who oversee social programs. Chile In Chile, my focus was the value of education and educational reform. I visited a World Bank-supported model vocational training school, where I saw a demonstration of education through computers and learned of plans to equip the schools with interlinking technology. As an example of Chile's education reform agenda, I was told of a proposal to 3 keep the schools open on weekends to allow children to pursue interests and help parents who are working. Mrs. Frei introduced me to her work with publicly-funded foundations which serve poor families by providing head- start-like day care and equipping women with marketable skills. The foundations also have innovative programs to involve fathers so they can realize the full potential of parenthood. Also in Chile, I participated in a forum on the importance of microcredit with representatives of community- based lending institutions and borrowers who had become economically self-reliant. My speech at the University of Chile praised Chile's strong educational system and highlighted our common goals for educational reform that strives to improve high school completion rates, promote quality training to enable workers to compete in the global marketplace, and nurture civic virtues to encourage participation in democratic decision-making. The University's rector noted that Teddy Roosevelt had spoken in the same Hall of Honor in 1917 and had outlined the many collaborative efforts that link the institution to the United States. I also had the opportunity to meet informally with President Frei at the Presidential Palace. Brazil In Brazil, I focused on the health of women and children. We visited modern Brasilia as well as Salvador de Bahia, the capital of the poverty-ridden northeast. Site visits in Salvador included a circus which aims to save street children by enhancing their teamwork and self-esteem, a community center which provides health, education and vocational skills to at-risk adolescents, and a hospital which assists in birth and also cares for women who have performed self-induced abortions. The hospital's programs emphasize how critically important health education and family planning are to the poor community, and the programs I saw provide a model for replication. The Minister of Health is hoping to extend this successful USAID-supported program to rural areas in the region. In Brasilia, I had an excellent meeting with President and Mrs. Cardoso. In Brasilia and Salvador, I participated in discussions with prominent women who are involved in addressing challenges in the areas of jobs, health, education, family life and other careers. President Cardoso discussed an education initiative he was about to announce that would address the problem of school drop-outs by putting more federal resources in schools below the university level. 4 Paraguay In Paraguay, I participated in the Fifth Conference of Wives of Heads of State and Government of the Americas, an annual Conference which brings together the spouses of the leaders of our hemisphere. This Conference marked the first year that North America has participated, and therefore the first year that it was a hemisphere-wide gathering. The Conference focused heavily on follow-up to the issues we had discussed at the Symposium on Children in Miami. We called attention to three concrete initiatives stemming from the hemispheric Summit: the eradication of measles by the year 2000, reduction of maternal mortality by one-half by the year 2000, and education reform. I was proud to announce USAID support for a new Partnership for Education Revitalization in the Americas (PERA), which is designed to help identify, disseminate and replicate innovative education reform programs throughout Latin America. Also, as I had helped launch the measles eradication campaign initiative at the PAHO headquarters last April, it was especially gratifying to learn of the activities of the hemisphere's First Ladies in support of the measles project. The First Ladies of this hemisphere are actively engaged in their own countries on these important social issues. In my keynote address on the opening night of the Conference, I stressed that the conferences in Miami, Copenhagen and Beijing have made clear that democracy and prosperity cannot be attained or sustained in countries that do not value women as full and equal partners in society. President Wasmosy spoke eloquently about the important role that a First Lady can play in working to better life for the people of her nation. He lauded Mrs. Wasmosy's work and stressed how complementary he viewed their efforts. The success of the Conference was noted by representatives of international organizations, such as UNICEF, PAHO, and IDB, who participated in the Conference as resources. They remarked that the Conference was one of the most impressive discussions in which they have participated, highlighting innovative developments to enhance progress on pressing social concerns. As First Ladies, we signed a declaration and agreed to be actively engaged in the issues we discussed, ranging from microenterprise and family planning to innovative education programs. Also in Paraguay, I met with representatives of the Peace Corps in Paraguay, which was holding a training session for its volunteers. Paraguay has the largest number of Peace Corps volunteers in the world, and it was a pleasure to hear from the American men and women who are on the front lines trying to make a difference in the quality of life in Paraguay. 5 Conclusions Throughout my visit, it was striking how very small amounts of money, when placed in the hands of dedicated, well-organized institutions, can transform people's lives. USAID programs, working in partnerships with international and local NGOs and with official entities at federal, state and local levels, are having a positive impact. The World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Organization of American States, the Pan-American Health Association and the Inter-American Foundation are all investing in people in innovative ways. We need to do more to publicize these success stories so that they can be replicated widely, including in the United States. Development assistance is a critical component of our broad-based, active engagement in the hemisphere and it calls for our continuing strong support. Latin America is a very diverse region undergoing dynamic change. The countries I visited are diverse in size, living standards and political development. Nicaragua and Paraguay are two small countries emerging from decades of repressive rule. President Chamorro has made great strides in consolidating democracy and restructuring the economy, even if Nicaragua is still traumatized by years of internal conflict and remains desperately poor, with over half of its population under the age of twenty-one. The United States can continue to work to promote national reconciliation. While the military still casts a shadow over political life in Paraguay, the current government appears to be working to strengthen democracy and make government accountable to its people. In his remarks at the opening of the First Ladies Conference, President Wasmosy focused his comments on the commitment to democracy. Brazil enjoys the strong, enlightened leadership of President Cardoso, who reiterated his determination to stabilize the economy and is working with his wife, Ruth, to invigorate civil society and reform the health and education systems. The Cardosos noted that they very much enjoyed their State Visit last April and seek to forge a new partnership with the United States. Chile appears to be a spectacular success story, combining economic stability, democratic politics and a concern for social equity that has lifted many of its citizens out of poverty since democracy was restored in 1990. The Chilean government appears to be on track to attain the developmental status of southern Europe and become an articulate leader that other countries will seek to follow. The government and private sector continue to be very concerned about NAFTA fast track, and I reiterated the President's support. Latin America continues to make progress, but the 6 region still confronts severe problems -- some of which we also face in the United States. Poverty is widespread and overwhelming in some areas and governments are handicapped by fiscal constraints and inflexible bureaucracies. Educational systems are badly in need of reform, both to reduce the high drop-out rates and to graduate students who can compete in the marketplace of the twenty-first century. Women are still undereducated and underpaid and many, many poor children crowd the streets of the continents' poor barrios. Future Engagement The United States has made a difference in ensuring hemispheric progress. It is my observation that Latin America seeks close working relations with the United States on a wide range of important issues, relations based on a genuine exchange and mutual learning. Finally, I believe we need to continue to help our neighbors strengthen their emerging democracies, expand market economies, and promote social integration. The annual First Ladies' Conference offers another instrument to advance social progress. Attached are copies of the speeches I gave in Nicaragua, Chile and Paraguay. Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Blank THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 18, 1995 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT CC: SECRETARY OF STATE WARREN CHRISTOPHER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR TONY LAKE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE STROBE TALBOTT DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR SANDY BERGER USAID ADMINISTRATOR BRIAN ATWOOD FROM: HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON HRC RE: REPORT ON SOUTH ASIA TRIP Thank you for asking me to make my recent trip to South Asia. It was a personally rewarding experience and I hope useful to our relations in the region. I tried to convey to the governments and the people of the countries I visited how important the United States thinks this region of the world is and how significant you believe the development of the people of this region to be, important not only for the futures of their own countries, but also for our entire global family. My trip to South Asia highlighted the importance of investments in people, especially women and girls, and demonstrated that the United States is committed to engagement in this critical region. My visit to Pakistan was a part of our overall effort to broaden relations strained in recent years by sanctions. In India, while investment opportunities are expanding to attract U.S. business, investments in social programs also remain critical. In Nepal and Bangladesh, U.S. assistance has long been the major element in our relationship and improvements, particularly in health and population control, are evident. Finally, Sri Lanka, a more developed small island nation with which we have historically had cordial relations, has made significant progress in universal access to education and health care. Before describing specific activities in the countries I visited, I would like to underscore some observations: South Asia has the largest number of absolute poor in the world. It faces enormous challenges in creating a better life for the great majority of its people. The countries I visited are making progress in meeting these challenges. Economies throughout the region are expanding and private investment is rising. Progress also has been significant in addressing the key problem of population growth. -- Lower population growth has resulted, to an important extent, from improvements in the social sectors -- health and education. Broad-based sustainable economic growth in the future will depend on more significant investments in these areas. Private investment by itself is necessary but not sufficient, in South Asia as well as elsewhere in the world. I underscored this issue in my speech at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, in which I said, "I recognize that discussion of such problems as education and health care for girls and women is viewed by some as 'soft,' labeled dismissively as a women's issue belonging, at best, on the edge of serious debate about all the problems we confront on the edge of the 21st century. I want to argue strongly, however, that the questions surrounding social development, especially of women, as discussed at the recent social summit in Copenhagen, are at the center of our political and economic challenges. Governments, businesses and citizens must recognize and act upon that truth for the betterment of nations and our global family." The empowerment of women is an important aspect of development in this and other regions. Women have proven again and again in the projects I visited how quickly and effectively they can become income earners when given a chance. No investment pays greater dividends in a nation's development and productivity than investments in the education of girls and women. -- The U.S. has long been engaged in assisting the countries of the region in development. I met countless individuals who had been helped in education, in health, and in support for creating private enterprises or NGOs by our assistance. The U.S. clearly has been effective in the past and must remain engaged in the future. -- U.S. assistance has had a direct impact on the lives and prospects of South Asians, but more importantly it has been a catalyst for further social development by leveraging aid from 2 other donors and local governments in expanding effective activities. One example is the population program in Bangladesh. The U.S. now channels much of its aid to South Asia through NGOs. Governments remain important, but experience shows that NGOs can be very effective partners in development. They are close to the people, accountable to the people and often are effective advocates for the people. Our government's partnership with NGOs -- our own and indigenous -- must continue to grow, while the U.S. must remain capable (as it is today) of channelling its aid in an integrated and strategic fashion toward overall development objectives. This is a partnership where the capabilities of our government and NGOs are complementary. Our bilateral and multilateral aid programs are now threatened with deep cuts or even elimination (as in the case of our contributions to the World Bank). These programs absorb less than 1% of the federal budget, yet as I observed on my trip, their contributions to our foreign policy are enormous. Cuts of the magnitude now being considered in Congress could force us to reduce drastically or terminate our aid to South Asian countries just as we are beginning to see a real impact of our past aid in those countries. There is also a danger that other governments might be tempted to follow our lead in cutting aid budgets. The United States has been of great assistance in this region for many years, and I was pleased to see the results of those years of effort. The investments we have made in the people of the countries I visited have produced concrete results, and I hope that my visits to successful programs and projects in the region helped to highlight the importance of our investments. I also believe that there are lessons we can learn here at home from some of the projects I visited. In each country I emphasized U.S. interest in helping improve people's lives, particularly the lives of women and girls who still suffer from cultural prejudice and the lack of government investment in education for girls, and who bear the brunt of poverty. This theme seemed to find resonance as a welcome complement to the recognized concerns for global stability, non- proliferation, and market access. My reception was very heartening. Government leaders and villagers alike went out of their way to make me feel welcome and to demonstrate the well-spring of respect and affection for the United States and the values they believe we represent. The local press was positive and impressed that our delegation braved the subcontinental heat to undertake such site visits as a village in rural Bangladesh, or SEWA headquarters in Ahmedabad, India. 3 to finance family planning and related health and education services through U.S. and local private voluntary organizations in an effort to make these services effective. The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) could not represent a sharper contrast to the village school I visited. It is a world class management school built with seed money from U.S. assistance together with private and public support from Pakistan. I gave a speech at LUMS (which is attached), and met with some of its impressive students to discuss barriers to women in management. The University is preparing women and men to take responsible positions in the expanding private sector in Pakistan. These and other women I met on my trip were dynamic, but conscious of their roles as pioneers in a society where female professionals remain rare. They are proving that change in society is possible if approached sensitively. The U.S. has played an important role in supporting them with programs to educate girls and women throughout South Asia. INDIA In India I attended a meeting in Ahmedabad of the Self- Employed Women's Association (SEWA), led by the legendary Ela Bhatt. This is a group of extremely poor women engaged in work like paper picking and selling fruits and vegetables. They are both residents of the city of Ahmedabad and the countryside for miles around it; many walked for hours to come to the meeting with me. The women have joined together in a trade union and cooperative which provides them with job training, micro-credit and opportunities to save together with mutual support and solidarity. The latter -- while intangible -- was clearly critical in giving these women, mostly uneducated, the confidence to take the initiative to become entrepreneurs. SEWA has been effective and has had a positive influence on government, police and programs. I was so pleased that the U.S. has been able to provide some support to SEWA and private voluntary organizations like it, for it is these organizations that help women begin to earn incomes and better their own lives and those of their families. Without these kinds of efforts (even where economic policies are supportive of growth), the mass of the populations of poor countries like the ones I visited will remain trapped in poverty for the foreseeable future. And women in particular will remain excluded and marginalized, and their countries severely disadvantaged by their lack of education and productivity. 5 Also in India, I visited a home for children run by Mother Teresa and toured a school project housed at the Indian Institute of Technology whose mission is to provide education to children of the neighboring slums and to empower their mothers through skills training and community support. Finally, I addressed the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and a distinguished group of Indian public and private sector leaders on the topic of investing in women and girls. In it, I focused on the theme of girls' and women's social development. (The speech is attached.) NEPAL Nepal was the poorest country I visited, and one of the very poorest in the world with literacy at only 25%, infant mortality at 107 per 1000 (165 per 1000 for under 5 years old), and life expectancy at 53 for women and 54 for men. It is one of the few countries where men outlive women. Yet, even here, enormous progress has taken place over the past three decades since Nepal opened to the rest of the world. Health is a particular problem for women in Nepal; 8 cut of 100 childbirths result in the death of the mother, usually for want of proper hygiene. At a small health and family planning clinic in Kathmandu (financed by a partnership of Save the Children Foundation, the government of Nepal and USAID), I was given a "Safe Home Delivery Kit" that expectant mothers receive. The primitive nature of the contents of the birthing kit (soap, twine, wax, plastic sheet, and razor blade) say a lot about conditions in Nepal and how far it has to go to reach an acceptable standard of living for its citizens. Development remains the central challenge for Nepal; it is clear that our assistance plays a key role in that development and in our relations with the Nepalese. BANGLADESH Bangladesh is the most densely populated nation in the world and the size of the crowds that surged around the village I visited outside Jessore were overwhelming. Bangladesh is increasingly an example of development success. Because of effective family planning services (pioneered in a project financed first by USAID through the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Control (ICDDC), which I visited, and later by a number of other donors), population growth rates have fallen dramatically in the country -- from 3% to 2.2% at present. 6 The ICDDC is a world class success story in saving lives of people suffering from cholera, malnutrition and diarrhea. It is a prime example of a small USAID investment over many years leveraging significant support from other partners to attack a problem that affects people around the world. One of the most moving events of my trip was a visit to a small village outside Jessore where the Grameen Bank, founded by Mohammed Yunus, has been active. The women in this very poor village of untouchables has significantly improved their incomes and living conditions through the micro-credit and savings programs of Grameen. This village was an impressive example of Grameen's success, but not unusual. Nearly 2 million Bangladeshis -- most of them women -- have benefitted from Grameen loans, along with many others benefitting from a variety of micro-credit schemes modeled on the Grameen approach in other countries, including the U.S. Like SEWA, which I visited in India, Grameen demonstrated the benefits of microcredit for women in reducing poverty, increasing employment and promoting social integration. It contributes to women's self-confidence and their decision-making power in the household and in their communities. I also visited both a BRAC (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) and a government school. BRAC schools, which serve primarily girls, have been burned by extremists protesting the role of NGOs promoting change. The government school participates in one of Prime Minister Zia's favorite programs, Food for Education, which provides weekly commodities to families that keep their children, primarily girls, in school instead of putting them to work. SRI LANKA My last stop offered a contrast to the other countries I visited. Sri Lanka has made the most social progress of any country in South Asia and is, on average, the best off. Its experience shows how important education and universal access to health care are, not only as an end in itself, but also in laying a foundation for overall economic growth, which was nearly 7% last year. Low population growth (1.2% per year) has undoubtedly played a role in facilitating real economic growth as well as the inclusion of women in the country's economic life. There I met the only woman bank president in South Asia, as well as women journalists and TV producers, lawyers, professors and women heading private voluntary organizations (PVOs) helping other women with training and credit to improve their lives. 7 If my visit to other countries in the region highlighted the development challenges and opportunities facing the region, my visit to Sri Lanka underlined the fact that those challenges can be met and just how important health, education and the inclusion of women can be in achieving economic progress anywhere in the world. If Sri Lanka's President is able to negotiate an end to the country's bloody internal conflict, prospects for growth will be even greater. 8 Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Blank PAGE 2 1ST STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright 1995 The New York Times Company The New York Times March 12, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section 1; Page 1; Column 1; Metropolitan Desk LENGTH: 2334 words HEADLINE: 65 Cents an Hour -- A special report. ; Week in Sweatshop Reveals Grim Conspiracy of the Poor BYLINE: By JANE H. LII BODY: "Earnestly, urgently looking for workers, 11 said a small red sign in Chinese posted outside a garment factory in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. "Please inquire within. The steel doors opened into a dim, dusty warehouse. Red and blue rags covered the four windows, shutting out all natural light. Bundles of cut cloth sat piled in haphazard mounds, some stacked taller than a worker. Under fluorescent lights swinging from chains, rows of middle-aged Chinese women hunched over sewing machines, squinting and silent. A fashionable woman in her early 30's rushed over with a clipboard. "What?" snapped in Cantonese, eyeing me from head to toe. The sign says you are looking for workers. 11 She responded with a tirade in rapid Chinese: people said they wanted jobs, but really wanted only to steal her equipment -- bobbins, bobbin cases, thread. It was hard to find people who wanted to work hard the'se days! And without missing a beat, she asked: "Do you know how to use a sewing machine?" Before I could really answer, she cut me off. "It doesn't matter," she said, hiring me on the spot. "As long as you are eager to learn and are willing to work, you will do well. This is America. Hard work will be rewarded." Seven days later, after 84 hours of work, I got my reward, in the form of a promise that in three weeks I would be paid $54.24, or 65 cents an hour. (Minimum wage is $4.25.) I also walked away from the lint-filled factory with aching shoulders, a stiff back, a dry cough and a burning sore throat. For years, going in and out of Chinatown garment shops as a Chinese-speaking reporter, I wondered what lay behind the tired eyes that met my gaze. This time, I had gone to work beside these immigrants, to see what it is really like inside an underground industry that has been notorious in New York City for more than a century. weatshops have long seeméd unknowable; the owners are too secretive, the ers too scared. The list of horrors is well known: long hours, low wages, health hazards. But is it really that bad? Are the owners SO evil, the workers PAGE 3 The New York Times, March 12, 1995 victimized? A week inside the Chai Feng sewing factory in Sunset Park suggests that something more complex is at work a miserable complicity born of necessity in an insular, immigrant world. At Chai Feng, the woman with the clipboard - - the owner, Maggie Zheng is actually benevolent, albeit in a harsh way She does not pay minimum wage, but she serves her workers tea. She makes them work until midnight, but she drives them home afterward. She uses child laborers, but she fusses over them, combing their ponytails, admiring their painted fingernails, even hugging them. And the workers seem to revere her. They call her Nu Qiang Ren, or Strong Woman, an expression that conveys affection and awe. An immigrant and former factory worker herself, Ms. Zheng, the sweatshop boss, is their model of success. The Workers Not in the U.S. To Enjoy Life That first morning, I walked three blocks from the N train's subway stop in Sunset Park to a brick warehouse that originally held a food processing plant. Now it is subdivided into eight garment shops, including Chai Feng. Chai Feng is typical of the new, highly mobile shops that have cropped up outside the garment districts in midtown Manhattan and Chinatown. Many of these 11 shops open and close SO quickly that they easily evade inspections by rstaffed regulatory agencies. Ms. Zheng opened her shop a few months ago. But she was really reopening an old shop under a new name. In December, her brother, Michael Zheng, had closed the factory, then called Superior Fashions, and fled, owing his workers $80,000 in back wages. His sister revived his business to make good on that debt, she later said. It was easy to get the job. Ms. Zheng did not ask any questions -- not my Social Security number, my work history, my immigration status or even my name. She also did not tell me how much I would be paid. And no Chinese worker would ask; it would be considered shockingly blunt. Ms. Zheng showed me to station five, and gave me a stack of trimmings for practice on the Brother Exedra sewing machine. It would be tough in the beginning, she said, but not once I became familiar with the machine. "Then you. can make multiples of $10 a day,' " she said. I practiced controlling the foot pedal and sewing straight lines and even curves. The hum of the sewing machines was numbing; the only distraction came from the scratchy recordings of popular Hong Kong songs emanating from a cassette player. And the cold was numbing, too. Sweatshop was definitely a misnomer; the heater on the ceiling gurgled and gasped. hree other people started training that day. Two very young women did not bother to return after lunch. Cao Wu Yi, who had arrived from Fujian only a PAGE 4 The New York Times, March 12, 1995 th earlier, stuck it out, as Zhang Zhong Zhu, her 5-year-old son, played on floor with toy airplanes. Almost all 30 workers at Chai Feng are Fujianese, and from the same district in Fujian as Ms. Zheng. They arrived in this country within the last seven years, some legally, and others illegally, helped by smugglers to whom they owe huge sums. Fujianese immigrants, because of their debts and their desperation, tend to work longer hours and endure more taxing conditions than Cantonese immigrants. The workers at Chai Feng later confided that they did not like their job, but they were grimly grateful just to have one. They are not in this country to enjoy life but to make money, they said. "When you, have an education and speak the language, you can afford to be choosy, said Lin A. Qing, who immigrated six years ago. "But for people like us, there aren't that many alternatives. We have to compromise. If we don't like what we do, we stay home and starve." Most of that week, the workers at Chai Feng sewed virtually nonstop, from 9 A.M. until midnight, pausing only for 15 minute lunch breaks: rice and tea provided by Ms. Zheng. Time was money, as the workers were paid by the piece, which is against the law if everyone does not make at least $4.25 an hour under such an arrangement. The least experienced were making less than $1 an hour. The most experienced and a ot made almost $5 an hour. At 3 P.M. on my first day, after the straight lines and curves I sewed passed Ms. Zheng's inspection, she brought over a bundle of mint green rayon pants for the New York sportswear company of Rhubarb Fashions. I was to sew pleats on the front part of the pants, for 12 cents a pair. Ms. Cao, the other trainee, was doing much better, attaching waistbands to shorts. by the end of the day. She confided that before she left China, after she heard that her immigration application had been approved, she had quit her job as a quilt maker in Fujian and trained for sewing full time. "Now I don't have to know English to make a living," she said. By 7 P.M., I had finished only 15 pairs of pants and made $1.80, at least on paper. I went home before everyone else, exhausted. The Children From School Days To Sewing Nights By my third day at Chai Feng, I was in pain. Curled in one position for 13 hours, moving only my knee to hit the knob that released the clothes from under the sewing needle, I grew awkwardly stiff. Chen May Xia, who sat at station six, offered a suggestion: "You have what we call sewer's back, she said. "We all have it. Tonight, turn on the shower very and let the water spray the area where it hurts. Then lie still in bed until next day. " PAGE 5 The New York Times, March 12, 1995 She then gave me the Chinese version of "no pain, no gain": "If you want to and make money, of course it's going to hurt. " Ms. Chen is 19, a senior at Seward Park High School in Chinatown, who works after school, through the night and on weekends. She said she had been a garment worker for four years, laws against child labor notwithstanding. Hard work teaches her what American teen-agers cannot understand, she said. "They've never had to work and they don't know how to make their own money, " she said. "All they do is complain about how stupid their parents are. They don't appreciate life as much as I do.' " It had become apparent that children far younger than Ms. Chen also worked at Chai Feng. In the perverse logic of the sweatshop, the workers considered Ms. Zheng a good boss precisely because she was willing to violate labor laws and allow their children to work by, their sides. In fact, she is SO flexible that she allows mothers to leave in the middle of the day, pick their children up from school and take them back to the factory. Some days, after 3 P.M., Chai Feng turned into a virtual day-care center, with children playing amid the lint. Inevitably, some helped their mothers work. Eddie Chan, who is 10, snipped loosè threads as his mother sewed zippers. "I want my children to work," said his mother, Chan Juan. "I don't think I'm ing them by letting them snip off threads. What else would they do at home? h TV and eat junk food? That's evil. I am instilling the work ethic in my S. Because my son works, he knows how hard I have to work to make money He appreciates everything I do for him. When American kids grow up, they move away and forget about their parents. 11. Shi Chuen Mei, 11, is a regular at Chai Feng; she said she had been working in garment shops since she was 9. She worked, she said, to break the boredom of all the hours beside her mother's sewing machine. Ponytail flying, she quickly and nimbly sewed printed labels that said "Made in the U.S.A." onto the waistbands of Christine David shorts. That day, Chuen Mei started to moan dramatically in English, which none of the workers understood. "My head is hurting, she said. "It's about to explode. I'm going to die soon. Oh, let me die." About 7 P.M., she lay down on a mound of clothes and took a nap. When she woke up, Ms. Zheng, the boss, asked the 11-year-old girl to stay late "Please, please, she said; there was a special order due the next morning. Chuen Mei went back to work without dinner. At 9 P.M., two steam pressers switched on. The room grew hazy with lint and moisture.. Chuen Mei rubbed her eyes constantly as others coughed. At 10:30 P.M after seven hours of work, her mother told her it was time to leave. "Yippee!" she shouted. hat night, the hem machines worked full speed, crackling like machine guns. At midnight, Ms. Zheng thanked the workers for staying late and offered them a PAGE 6 The New York Times, March 12, 1995 e home. I took the subway with Ms. Lin. She told me how much she missed her e teen-age children, two sons and a daughter. She recently sent them back to ma because she could not afford to rear them here. "Life in America is SO hard, she said. I asked her why she chose to stay. She turned to look at me and laughed. "Money, what else?" The Owner Erasing Shame Of Brother's Debt On Sunday, my last day, a union organizer came in and spoke to the workers. She explained health insurance and overtime pay, but people seemed most interested in the free English lessons offered by the union. The organizer confided that she had thought about opening her own factory after sewing for 20 years. But she would never have been able to afford a union shop, she said: "It's too expensive.' Later in the day, another visitor, an irate former employee, argued loudly with Ms. Zheng, saying her brother owed him money. "What money are you talking about?" Ms. Zheng shouted. "I opened two months ago. Do I know you?" Later, when I went back and identified myself as a reporter, Ms. Zheng sat n with me and talked about her background. She openly acknowledged that her her used to own the factory and that he had fled owing the workers close to 000 in back wages. Ms. Zheng's mother, who has a restaurant in New Jersey and originally bought the garment shop as'a present for her son, pressed her daughter to reopen it. The Zhengs sold one of their three houses in Fuzhou to finance the reopening. Ms. Zheng, who immigrated a decade ago, said her mother felt concerned that her brother had shamed them. Most of the workers came from the same district in Fujian as the Zhengs; they were "our people, Ms. Zheng said. Still, Ms. Zheng opened the shop under a new name in an effort to avoid being held responsible for her brother's debts or for the back wages owed workers who did not return. Those who did return said they had been paid regularly. I left with the promise that I would be paid in three weeks. I had earned $54.24 by Ms. Zheng's calculations. If I had been paid the legal wage, with time and a half for overtime, the salary would have been $451. Both Ms. Zheng and her workers consider American labor laws to be ideals, laudable but impractical. Ms. Zheng said she would love to pay her workers $4.25 an hour, the minimum wage, but as a subcontractor, she cannot afford to; the designers' middlemen do not pay her enough. The workers said they would love to earn the minimum wage but would take what they could get. The children said it would be great to make r own money for their labor, but would be content to help increase their nts' earnings. PAGE 7 The New York Times, March 12, 1995 And apparently, child labor does not bother Federal inspectors unless a minor tept out of school to work at a factory. After a complaint about child labor and my own inquiries, inspectors visited Ms. Zheng's shop in mid-February, but found only minor violations like incomplete employee records. Federal labor inspectors say they have eased enforcement since the passing of the North American Free Trade Agreement because they do not want to drive jobs out of the United States, although they say they have started cracking down on designers who rely on illegal garment factories. Still, at Ms. Zheng's shop, less-than-ideal conditions are an accepted fact of life. Everyone quotes a Chinese saying: The big fish prey on the little fish, the little fish in turn prey on the shrimp, and the shrimp can only eat dirt. " GRAPHIC: Photos: Many of the women who work in sweatshops take their children with them. Huang Xiao Yan, 8, played recently while her mother worked; The sign in Chinese to the right of the door identifies the Chai Feng sewing factory, in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn. A help-wanted sign on the door says the factory i's urgently looking for workers. (Photographs by Nancy Siesel/The New York Times) (pg. 40) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH D-DATE-MDC: March 12, 1995 RUSSELL BAKER 58 GROWING UP 59 great vine enclosing the end of my grandmother's porch, and wild roses covered the fences. For baths, laundry, and dishwashing, they hauled buckets of water from a spring at the foot of a hill. On a broiling afternoon when the men were away To heat it, they chopped kindling to fire their wood at work and all the women napped, I moved through stoves. They boiled laundry in tubs, scrubbed it on majestic depths of silences, silences so immense I could hear the corn growing. Under these silences washboards until knuckles were raw, and wrung it there was an orchestra of natural music playing out by hand. Ironing was a business of lifting heavy metal weights heated on the stove top. notes no city child would ever hear. A certain cackle They scrubbed floors on hands and knees, thrashed from the henhouse meant we had gained an egg. rugs with carpet beaters, killed and plucked their The creak of a porch swing told of a momentary own chickens, baked bread and pastries, grew and breeze blowing across my grandmother's yard. Mov- ing past Liz Virts's barn as quietly as an Indian, 1 canned their own vegetables, patched the family's clothing on treadle-operated sewing machines, could hear the swish of a horse's tail and knew the deloused the chicken coops, preserved fruits, picked horseflies were out in strength. As I tiptoed along a mossy bank to surprise a frog, a faint splash told potato bugs and tomato worms to protect their gar- den crop, darned stockings, made jelly and relishes, me the quarry had spotted me and slipped into the rose before the men to start the stove for breakfast stream. Wandering among the sleeping houses, I and pack lunch pails, polished the chimneys of learned that tin roofs crackle under the power of kerosene lamps, and even found time to tend the the sun; and when I tired and came back to my geraniums, hollyhocks, nasturtiums, dahlias, and pe- grandmother's house, I padded into her dark cool onies that grew around every house: By the end of a living room, lay flat on the floor, and listened to the summer day a Morrisonville woman had toiled like hypnotic beat of her pendulum clock on the wall a serf. ticking the meaningless hours away. At sundown the men drifted back from the fields I was enjoying the luxuries of a rustic nineteenth- exhausted and steaming. They scrubbed themselves century boyhood, but for the women Morrisonville in enamel basins and, when supper was eaten, life had few rewards. Both my mother and grand- climbed up onto Ida Rebecca's porch to watch the mother kept house very much as women did before night arrive. Presently the women joined them, the Civil War. It was astonishing that they had any and the twilight music of Morrisonville began: energy left, after a day's work, to nourish their The swing creaking, rocking chairs whispering mutual disdain. Their lives were hard, endless, dirty on the porch planks, voices murmuring approval of labor. They had no electricity, gas, plumbing, or the sagacity of Uncle Irvey as he quietly observed central heating. No refrigerator, no radio, no tele- for probably the ten-thousandth time in his life, "A phone, no automatic laundry, no vacuum cleaner. man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is Lacking indoor toilets, they had to empty, scour, never done." and fumigate each morning the noisome slop jars Ida Rebecca, presiding over the nightfall from which sat in bedrooms during the night. the cane rocker, announcing, upon hearing of some Page 3 2ND STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright 1995 The Economist Newspaper Ltd. The Economist August 19, 1995, U.S. Edition SECTION: World Politics and Current Affairs; INTERNATIONAL; Pg. 35 LENGTH: 1332 words HEADLINE: Different roads to development BODY: Why it's better to be poor in some countries than in others IN THE fetid slums of Rio, schools, clean water and basic medical care are impossible dreams for many residents. Sad, but understandable, you might think: Brazil is 8 fairly poor country. Sri Lanka is a poorer one, with less than two-thirds of Brazil's income per person (on a purchasing-power basis). Yet Sri Lankan mothers are less likely to die giving birth, their babies are likelier to survive--and much likelier in due time to finish primary school. The proportion of people in absolute poverty is lower. Disparities between levels of wealth and of health, highlighted each year by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its index of performance (its 1995 report came out this week), are only too familiar. In MoΓocco, infant mortality is 68 per thousand; in poorer China, it is 44. In Ghana, 72% of children finish primary school, more than in richer South Africa or Pakistan. Vietnam's income per head is about 6% of the United Arab Emirates', yet its literacy rate is much higher. Why? One theory says that a firm hand at the top makes the difference. Not so. The UN's top-ten stars in improved human development from 1960 to 1992 are these: China, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Portugal, Thailand, Tunisia, South Korea, Malaysia and Botswana. It is a mixed bunch. Nor, on its own, is economic growth the key. True, high growth and good standards of literacy and health tend to run together, as in the Asian tigers. Yet poor places can show good results. Kerala, home to nearly 30m people in southern India, is not rich, even by Indian standards. But it has, by far, the country's highest literacy and life expectancy, and the lowest infant mortality. So what does make the difference? Answers: effective local government, an egalitarian outlook, an open economy, a degree of personal liberty, sensible and sustained spending--and patience. The place to start is primary education, above all of girls. Women account for 70% of the world's poor and nearly 70% of all illiterates: in no country, not even in top-notch Scandinavia, do women fare as well as men. But when girls go to school, the knock-on effects in terms of lower fertility, healthier children and longer lives are striking. Page 4 The Economist, August 19, 1995 Mortality among Indian babies of mothers with primery education is half that of those born to uneducated women. A literate mother is better equipped to understand hygiene; literate women can be trained as midwives and rural health workers, which are crucial to public health. A shortage of such women is one reason why many Muslim countries, even rich oil states, have surprisingly low social-development indicators. Buddhist societies on the whole do better. Buddha encouraged women to seek enlightenment, and thus girls have long attended school at much the same rates as boys; better health is a natural consequence. How can more girls be got into school? The best way is to make education free. That brings in more of both sexes, but especially girls: if parents have to pay, poor ones tend to send their sons ahead of their daughters. Anything that lessens what is, in many societies, women's work, will help. A nearby water supply means girls will spend less time hauling water for the family. The offer of a free meal for children may overcome the tendency to keep girls at home cooking for the males of the household. School latrines can help; in some parts of Pakistan, when a girl needs to go, she has to go home. The quality of local government is vital: local, not national, officials determine whether truants skip school with impunity, clinics go dirty, water pipes run dry. In Brazil's state of Ceara, in the poor north-east, a committed governor was decisive in ensuring in the early 1990s that its 6.5m people should have above-average access to infant care, immunisation and primary education. A World Bank study of 121 water and sanitation projects found a clear correlation between close participation of community leaders and officials in the design and construction of a given project, and its success five years later. And when officialdom knows it must listen to public needs or lose its job, listen it will. Watch South Africa's dismal basic services improve now that its black majority has the vote. Keralans have been known to raise hell when a rural health clinic goes unstaffed for too long; so not many do. A British constitutional commission in 1928, noticing that life expectancy in colonial Ceylon--today's Sri Lanka--had stagnated after several decades of improvement, recommended that a planned transition to internal self-government should include votes for women, to create pressure on officials for health care. It happened, and--though a direct link cannot be proved--Ceylon went on to develop South Asia's most effective health system. Civil liberty seems an odd parameter, given the record of some of the countries that rank high in social-development indices. Cuba and Vietnam are less-than-free societies, yet their people are generally literate and long-lived. The answer is that national and local freedoms are different: Cubans do not feel free to complain about Fidel Castro, but they are encouraged to complain about cockroaches at the local maternity clinic. In the short term, any populist revolution is likely to be good for human development: often, it was precisely the lack of this that won the revolutionaries popular support. The trouble is that revolutionary fervour does not last. Zimbabwe's new elite did well to develop widespread primary education, but shows signs of adopting the same elitist habits as the old one. Cuba failed to develop the economic base to keep its expensive social programmes in good order now that Soviet subsidies have run out. Page 5 The Economist, August 19, 1995 Any elite tends to look after itself first. That is why many poor countries spend much of their health and education budgets on high-technology hospitals and universities, instead of rural clinics and primary schools. The tendency is still worse if the regime feels threatened by powerful interest groups such as the army or landlords. It will sooner buy them off than get into the long-term process of delivering basic education and health, whose political pay-off is real, but not immediate. Meeting basic needs does not have to be costly. Schools and clinics are labour-intensive, and in poor countries even skilled labour is relatively cheap. So a poor country can get more for its money than a rich one. The UN's children's agency reckons that 5% of GDP is enough to deliver universal basic services--five years of education, immunisation, pre-natal care, and access to a trained medical worker. Provided, that is, that the money is well spent. East Asian countries spent 3.7% of their GDP on education in 1989, says the World Bank, the rest of the developing world 3.6%; but the East Asians spent it better. The proportion of East Asians aged above 15 who had never gone to school dropped from 52% in 1960 to 20% in 1985. In 73 developing countries (including East Asia), surveyed by Harvard's Robert Barro and Korea University's Jong-Wha Lee, the proportion fell less, from 64% to 45%. No society can escape its history. Ex-British colonies tend to do well in human development. Costa Rica and Panama did not have the rest of Central America's hacienda culture; their relative egalitarianism was important in building a social consensus for universal health and education. Kerala owes its achievements in part to its benevolent 19th-century rulers, in part to the influence of the 20%--the top 20%, mostly--of the population whose culture is matrilineal. Still, what matters most are the choices made today. And the best one for any poor society is to get its girls to school. GRAPHIC: charts LANGUAGE: ENGLISH LOAD-DATE: August 18, 1995 / I Page 8 2ND STORY of Level 1 printed in FULL format. Copyright 1995 The Washington Post The Washington Post May 14, 1995, Sunday, Final Edition SECTION: OUTLOOK; Pg. C01 LENGTH: 1983 words HEADLINE: Investing In Sisterhood; An Agenda for the World's Women 9500003397: BYLINE: Hillary Rodham Clinton BODY: THE WOMEN'S BANK is a one-room building in Ahmedabad, a textile center in western India. The teller's counter is an old kitchen table covered with cloth. Bank clerks record all transactions by hand, on yellowed sheets bound in volumes that resemble worn-out telephone books. When I visited, saw poor women who had walked 12 to 15 hours from their villages to take out loans some as small as $ to invest in dairy cows, plows or goods that could be sold at market. The bank is the brainchild of Gandhi disciple Ela Bhatt and was founded by the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). Many of the women in this trade organization rank among the poorest, least educated and most ostracized in India. Today, the bank has more than 40,000 members and assets of more than $ 2 million. Women run the bank, and only women are allowed to make deposits and borrow money. The result is impressive: Against enormous political, social and economic odds, Indian women are transforming their lives. This is one of many images that stayed with me after my trip last month through South Asia -- a trip made all the more meaningful because I shared with my 15-year-old daughter. Although we traveled in special circumstances, as official visitors, we were both struck by the interest an American mother and daughter can generate in places where women are not always accorded the same respect as men. For me, the trip also prompted a rethinking of many issues that concern women -- and men -- in every nation. In each country we visited -- Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka -- we saw women struggling to overcome poverty, illiteracy, inadequate health care and deeply rooted cultural barriers by joining together to increase their earning power and improve their circumstances. SEWA is but one example of how women have organized around their capacity as borrowers, lenders and savers to achieve greater economic independence for themselves and greater prosperity for their families and communities. For the rest of the world, the South Asian experience offers a simple lesson: that investing in people -- especially women and girls -- is as essential to the prosperity of the entire global family as investing in the development of open markets and trade. South Asia reminds us that social development and economic development go hand-in-hand. It reminds us too that women represent the soundest investment any nation can make in the effort to jump-start development. Page 9 The Washington Post, May 14, 1995 Women comprise more than half of the world's population. They care for most of the world's children. And they do more than their share of the world's work. Investing in their education and health, and assuring their full political, economic and social participation in society ought to be the bottom line in any development equation. I realize that issues such as education and health care are still regarded in many quarters as "soft" or marginal to economic growth. Often they are reflexively dismissed as "traditional women's issues" that do not rank high among the problems we will face in the 21st century. A growing body of research from the World Bank and elsewhere suggests otherwise; questions surrounding social development, especially of women, are at the center of our political and economic challenges. In country after country, women have demonstrated that, when given the tools of opportunity -- education, health care, access to credit, political participation and legal rights -- they are better able to make the right choices in their lives. They can lift themselves out of poverty and, even more important, they can lift their families, communities and nations as well. The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh is a case study: In one Grameen village, women pooled savings reaped from their investments to build a communal well. A woman in another Grameen village told me that she had taken out two loans to buy dairy cows; the third loan was used to buy a rickshaw to provide her husband a livelihood. Education also plants seeds of prosperity for women around the world. During my trip, I saw examples of the way schools in South Asia are reshaping the social and economic landscape. The Prayas School in India is a volunteer effort, founded by wives of professors at the Indian Institute of Technology. The school serves the poorest women and girls in the neighboring slums of New Delhi, offering classes for young girls and training women to make ceramics, jewelry and other artifacts that they can sell for profit. In Bangladesh, where the literacy rate for women is 29 percent (compared with 45 percent for men), a nongovernmental organization called the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee acts on the theory that education is a precondition for economic development. The committee has established 27,000 schools, most of whose students are girls, even though extremists opposed to its educational efforts have burned some of the schools. A government-run school I visited in Bangladesh offers material incentives to parents to send their children -- especially girls -- to attend. This is particularly significant among the very poor, who often view school as a diversion from their children's income-producing work. As part of the Food for Education program, families receive a weekly food allotment if their children go to class. Another government program pays parents to keep girls in secondary school. Along with access to credit and education, health care is an equally important ingredient in the recipe for development. Here too South Asia offers instructive examples of low-tech, low-cost strategies, many of which can be Page 10 The Washington Post, May 14, 1995 applied elsewhere, including the West. In Bangladesh, I visited the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Control, and was surprised to see a doctor from Louisiana making rounds. The center is a pioneer in the use of oral rehydration therapy, a method of treating potentially fatal cases of diarrhea through ingestion of a solution of salt, sugar and water. Thousands of lives have been saved through this inexpensive treatment. The doctor from Louisiana was there to learn how the technique might be used in the United States, where 20 million children under age 5 suffer from diarrhea each year and an estimated 300,000 are hospitalized because of resulting dehydration. Intravenous rehydration treatments, which must be given in the hospital, cost on average about $ 800 per day; commercial solutions cost about $ 7 per day and can be administered at home, a potentially cheap and effective alternative to hospitalization. I was also struck by the common-sense approach to health care at a clinic started by American women in Nepal. Often romanticized by Westerners because of its glorious setting in the Himalayas, Nepal is in fact a cruel health environment for indigenous women. A disproportionate number of Nepalese women die during their child-bearing years, the result of early and frequent pregnancies, inadequate health care and poor nutrition. Women are usually the last to eat in their families and as many as 80 percent are reported to be anemic. A recent report by a group of Nepalese women estimates 515 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births. At the health clinic I visited, midwives and others preparing to deliver a baby will soon be given a "Safe Home Delivery Kit" -- a package containing a plastic sheet, bar of soap, piece of twine, wax and a razor blade. This is a cost-effective, low-tech approach that will help improve conditions for childbirth and lower the mortality rate among Nepalese women. As an American, I was proud to learn that many of these grass-roots enterprises were succeeding because of direct assistance from the United States to governments, nongovernmental organizations, or U.S.-supported international organizations such as the World Bank. Nongovernmental organizations have been particularly effective because they are close to the people, accountable to the people, and often are good advocates for the poor. Not only do the partnerships between governments and NGOs help funnel aid directly to programs, they leverage support from local governments and other sources. Throughout South Asia, one can see the results of American investment in governments and NGOs. The "Safe Home Delivery kit," for example, was funded jointly by USAID, Save the Children, the Nepalese government and a small, local women-owned business. The United States has supported family planning services in Bangladesh, where population growth rates have fallen from 3 percent to 2.2 percent since the early 1970s. In Sri Lanka, I visited a remarkable facility built with financial assistance from USAID. A program run by a former theology professor, Sister Bernice, offers shelter, schooling and financial counseling to women and girls who are homeless or victims of violence. Like Bangladesh, Pakistan is also developing rural schools. At the Lahore University of Management Sciences, a center of higher learning in Pakistan built Page 11 The Washington Post, May 14, 1995 with USAID support, I saw dozens of young women who are training along with their male counterparts to become leaders of their nation's growing business and investment sectors. These projects are proof that American aid -- both financial and technical -- has provided the tools of opportunity to people and nations who have shown a courageous commitment to democracy and a market economy. Today, that American aid remains critical. Having watched in the last 10 years as democracy has flourished and markets have opened around the globe, we cannot turn our backs on nations struggling to uphold our ideals. As debates over foreign aid take place in the coming months, I hope that members of Congress and the American public will remember that such assistance accounts for less than 1 percent of our annual budget. Still, at a time of economic anxiety in our own country, I'm sure many Americans wonder why we should be concerned with the conditions facing women and girls living in dusty villages and urban slums around the world. The reasons go beyond humanitarian concerns. As Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said after a recent trip to India, "Development works. It improves lives in developing countries, and as those lives improve, it will have a direct impact on our economy, on the jobs and living standards of Americans." On every continent, we have seen how the development of skills and earning power of women leads to more prosperous regional and national economies. It also leads to better educated and more prosperous consumers of American goods and services. And it is fundamentally important to building a more peaceful world. As long as economies remain underdeveloped and spirits undernourished, conflicts that endanger our own security are less likely to be resolved. Finally, investing in opportunities for women is critical to expanding social justice. Denying women education, health care, economic security, political freedom and legal protections is a violation of basic human rights. Given recent objections voiced in this country about a day devoted to bringing girls to work, it probably bears mentioning that an emphasis on girls and women is not meant to exclude or diminish the rights or interests of men. Men everywhere face challenges and obstacles as they seek to fulfill themselves and their responsibilities to their families. But around the world, including in our own country, women represent a disproportionate number of the poor and vulnerable. Investing in women strengthens families and communities, which helps everyone in society. And investing in women brings us closer to a world in which distinctions between men and women are viewed, ultimately, as complementary parts to a greater whole. First Lady Hillary Clinton traveled through South Asia from March 24 to April 6. GRAPHIC: Illustration, whitney sherman for The Washington Post LANGUAGE: ENGLISH Page 12 The Washington Post, May 14, 1995 COUNTRY: INDIA; LOAD-DATE: May 14, 1995 Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Women's Leadership Forum 1/7/97 Withdrawal/Redaction Marker Clinton Library DOCUMENT NO. 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The current debate over raising the minimum wage has centered around assertions that a higher minimum wage would mostly benefit teenagers from affluent families while costing many low wage workers their jobs. A new report released today by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) shows that the Clinton plan for raising the minimum wage will primarily benefit full-time, adult women workers in low-income and middle-class families. Only 11.7% of all beneficiaries of a higher minimum wage are teenagers in high income families. Who Wins with a Higher Minimum Wage, by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Be, nstein, and Edith Rasell, examines the effects of an increased minimum wage and finds the following: A higher minimum wage will most benefit families with the least income -- low income and middle-class families. Seventy-six percent of the benefits of the Clinton minimum wage proposal will go to working families with below average incomes. Minimum wage earners are primarily women (57.9%), those in full- time jobs (47.2%) or who work more than twenty hours weekly (33.3%), are disproportionately black (15%) or Hispanic (13.8%), and are concentrated in the low wage retail sector (44.3%). Minimum wage earners are frequently the only earner in their family (38%) and, on average, contribute half of all family earnings. Only 11.7% of all beneficiaries of a higher minimum wage are teenagers in families with above average incomes. The Clinton administration proposal only partially restores the deterioration of the minimum wage since 1979. In 1996. after two $0.45 increases, the minimum wage would still be 14% below its - more - Page 2 purchasing power in 1979. A higher minimum wage will help reverse the growth of wage inequality over the 1979.93 period, especially among women. Opponents of increasing the minimum wage paint a picture of little economic gain and many adverse consequences from the wage hike. Contrary to popular perceptions that teenagers are the big winners, an EPI analysis of Current Population Survey data finds that full-time working women from low- income and middle-class families will gain the most from the Clinton proposal to boost the minimum wage. While minimum wage earners are concentrated in the poorest families. a higher minimum wage will also benefit many working families in the middle class (32.8%). The Clinton administration proposes to increase the minimum wage from its current $4.25 level to $4.70 in July 1995 and to $5.15 in July 1996. In Who Wins with a Higher Minimum Wage, the authors show that the minimum wage hike will directly affect 12.2 million workers, or 11.7% of all earners, and indirectly affect an additional 8.9 million workers, or 8.5% of all earners. They firid half of minimum wage earners work full time and another third work between 20 and 34 hours weekly. Minimum wage earners contribute significantly to their family incomes -- half (48.6%) of the total annual earnings. Another indication of their importance to family incomes is the fact that 38.8% of minimum wage earners are the sole earners in their families, while another 35.6% are one of only two earners in their families. Teens make up only a small proportion of all minimum wage earners (25.4%). and only 11.7% of minimum wage earners are teens in families with above average incomes. In contrast. 57.6% of minimum wage carners are adults in families with below average incomes. according to the report. The persistent economic squeeze on families is a result of the continuing deterioration of real wages for the vast majority of workers and the dramatic growth in the wage gap between high wage workers and those earning middle or low wages. According to the authors, a higher minimum wage will help reverse the growth of wage inequality over the 1979-93 period, especially among women. However, these increases will only partially offset the 27% decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the minimum wage over the 1979-94 period. The authors also note that recent studies have shown little. if any, job loss due to the minimum wage hikes in 1990 and 1991. They conclude that the modest boost proposed by the Clinton administration is not likely to result in any significant job loss, but will generate income gains for precisely those families who need it most. In addition, a higher minimum wage would begin to "make work pay" and help shift welfare recipients into jobs. - more - Page 3 Lawrence Mishel is the Research Director of the Economic Policy Institute and the author of various EM publications, including The State of Working America. 1994-95 and 1992-93 editions (with Jared Bernstein). Manufacturing Numbers: How Inuccurate Statistics Conceal U.S. Industrial Decline, and Shortchanging Education (with Edith Rasell). He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and has published in a variety of academic and nonacademic journais. Jared Bernstein is an economist at the Economic Policy Institute. He is a co-author of The State of Working America, 1994-95 and 1992-93 editions. Mr. Bernstein holds a Doctor of Social Welfare degree from Columbia University. He specializes in the fields of income distribution, poverty and social welfare policy. and wage trends and inequality. Edith Rasell is a health economist at the Economic Policy Institute. Dr. Rasell is a former physician. board certified in Family Practice. She is the co- author of the EPI briefing papers The Impact of Health Care Financing on Family Budgets (with Jared Bernstein and Kainan Tang) and The Impact of the Clinton Health Care Plan on Jobs, Investment. Wages, Productivity and Exports (with Dean Baker and Kainan Tang). The Economic Policy Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan economic think tank founded in 1986 and supported by grants from foundations, corporations. labor unions. and individuals. Its founders include economic policy experts Lester Thurow, Robert Reich, Robert Kuttner, Barry Bluestone, Ray Marshall. and EPI President Jeff Faux. To order copies of the EPI briefing paper Who Wins with a Higher Minimum Wage, by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein. and Edith Rasell, contact the Economic Policy Institute at 202-775-8810. Price is $5. - 30 - Clinton Presidential Records Digital Records Marker This is not a presidential record. This is used as an administrative marker by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Staff. This marker identifies the place of a tabbed divider. Given our digitization capabilities, we are sometimes unable to adequately scan such dividers. The title from the original document is indicated below. Divider Title: Working Women Count! (Labor) EMBARGOED UNTIL 11:30 AM, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 WORKING WOMEN COUNT! A REPORT TO THE NATION Voices of Working Women "Many male bosses still don't understand the demands young children put on working women. The job should always come first. They act like having children is like having a dog -- all you do is feed them and walk them once a day. If someone doesn't become more concerned about how this country's children are raised, our nation is in big trouble." Professional/Mother Florida "I am a pioneer for women underground coal miners. I like the challenge and the prestige. I am dissatisfied because I earn approximately $20,000 less than the men foremen with equal experience." Coal Miner, Alabama "I have worked a substantial number of years in corporate America and the atmosphere is not very good for a woman of color no matter how skilled or educated she is. There doesn't seem to be much room for an educated black woman in corporate America." Professional (state unkown) "I am working to pay for my health insurance, not to take my kids to Disneyworld." Divorced Mother of Two, New York "I work very hard for little money. Unable to buy anything extra. Just enough to pay for necessities -- living from paycheck to paycheck. Don't know how I will be able to afford a new car payment. Retirement will be worse!" Clerical Worker, Ohio "Part-time and temporary positions seem to be all there is for my generation." Worker in her Twenties, Minnesota "Working moms already have limited time on their hands, but when they feel like they're searching for a needle in a haystack when it comes to child care it can be a real hassle. The way things are set up, you either make too much for state programs or private day care is well out of reach." Clerical Worker/Single Mother, Illinois NOTE: These and other comments from respondents to the Working Women Count! questionnaire can be found in Working Women Count! A Report to the Nation. For copies call Lisa Lederer at (202) 371-1999. file News United States Department of Labor Office of Information Washington. D.C. 20210 USDL: 94-510 CONTACT: Lisa Lederer FOR RELEASE: OFFICE: (202) 371-1999 EMBARGOED UNTIL 11:30 AM Lauren Asher Friday, Oct. 14, 1994 (202) 219-6631 STRONG CONSENSUS FOR CHANGE EMERGES AS A QUARTER OF A MILLION AMERICAN WOMEN SPEAK OUT THROUGH WORKING WOMEN COUNT! Improved Pay and Benefits, Help Balancing Work and Family, Fighting Discrimination Are Critical, Working Women Say American women like their jobs but want changes that reduce stress, improve pay and benefits, help them balance work and family responsibilicies, increase job training opportunities and and discrimination. Those and other results of Working Women Count!, a groundbreaking initiative by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, were released today at a news conference at the Old Executive Office Building with Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich and other officials. "More than a quarter of a million women took the time to respond and showed their faith in the process when they sent in their questionnaires. We intend to listen," said Gore. "Just a few months ago, we launched an unprecedented effort to talk directly to the experts themselves -- America's working women. Their response exceeded all our expectations, said Mrs. Clinton. "We will continue to listen and respond to the concerns of working women and working families." Working Women Count! found a strong consensus for change among women in three areas -- compensation (pay and benefits), work and family policies and the undervaluing of women's work (equal opportunity and training). The popularly distributed Working Women Count! questionnaire was complemented by a scientific phone survey using the same questions with a nationally representative, random sample of 1,200 working women. Among the results is the fact that four in five women (79 percent) either "love" or "like" their jobs, but women also see a need for change: -- Too much stress is a serious problem for more than half the women in both the popular (58 percent) and scientific samples (59 percent), cutting across income and occupational groups. -more- -3- commodities, but as essential assets. And they want to work in an environment that treats them with dignity, respects the importance of their families and invests in their skills." "Through Working Women Count!, women have raised serious concerns,' said Women's Bureau Director Karen Nussbaum. "Only by addressing these issues will we fully and fairly value women. Government, businesses, unions, national and grassroots organizations and the media all have a role to play in finding solutions. The Clinton Administration has made important progress in improving the lives of working women by signing the Family and Medical Leave Act into law and through the Head Start Reauthorization bill. The voices of America's working women will add the fuel to power even greater progress in the future." The Working Women Count! questionnaire was distributed by more than 1,600 partners, including businesses, labor unions, magazines, newspapers, national and community-based organizations and government agencies. They included 300 businesses (from MeToM Corporation to local hair salons), more than 900 national and community-based organizations (including the YWCA, the National Association of Black Mayors and the National Council of La Raza), 75 international unions and locals, 10 federal and 100 state agencies, mayors, members of Congress, tribal governments; universities, community colleges, historically black schools, and the Compuserve and Prodigy on-line services. Four national magazines, 40 daily newspapers, and many weekly and foreign language newspapers published the questionnaire, and 175 stations ran public service announcements. Working Women Count! was launched May 5th; the deadline to return questionnaires was August 31st. The questionnaire was developed by the Women's Bureau and distributed in all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico. It was translated into Braille and five languages -- Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. The Women's Bureau was created by Congress in 1920 to "promote the welfare of wage-earning women." # # # NOTE: Media can order full copies of WORKING WOMEN COUNT! A REPORT TO THE NATION from Lisa Lederer at 202/371-1999. Also available is a demographic profile of working women in each state, and a list of Working Women Count! partners in each state. WORKING WOMEN COUNT! A NATIONAL QUESTIONNAIRE Sponsored by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor and Today, 58 million women hold paid jobs in America. This is the largest num- Please return this questionnaire to: ber of working women in our history - and the number continues to grow. If you're one of these women, the Women's Bureou at the U.S. Department of Labor wonts to know what you think about your job how to make it better. Please answer this questionnaire and return it to the address of right. We'll give the results right to the President and Congress so they'll know what issues are important to you. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AS 0 working woman, your VOICE counts! Robert B Reich, Secrerary Thanks for your help. Karen Nussbaum, Director, Women's Bureau 1. Would you describe your main work for pay as: 3. How many hours a week do you work for pay? - - Clerical/support (secretary, receptionist, clerical supervisor, computer operator, stock clerk, insurance investigator) 4. The things you like most about your job are (check up to 3): - - Craft/repair (mechanic, electrical/electronic repair, plumber, painter) I get paid well - - Executive or monoger (financial manager, buyer, marketing manager, - I have good benefits occountant, auditor) - - My hours are flexible - - Forming, forestry, or fishing - I have job training opportunities - - Homemoker - - I have the authority I need to get the job done - - Operator/fabricator (machine operator, packaging mochine operator - - My job is secure - - Professional (teacher, lawyer, computer scientist, doctor, RN) - I am productive - - Sales (sales supervisor, cashier, sales representative) - - Service (security, childcare, food service, health aid, hairdresser) - - I enjoy the company of my co-workers - - Technical (LPN, computer programmer, legal assistant, dental hygienist) - - I learn new things - I like what I do - - Transportation (motor vehicle operator, truck or tractor operator) - I like working as part of 0 team 2. How many paid jobs do you have? - Other: 5. Are any of the following issues a problem for you at work? (If so, One of the very somewhat not very not of all DOESN'T check off how serious a problem it is. If not, check DOESN'T APPLY): most serious serious serious serious serious APPLY I don't get poid what I think my job is worth I need better benefits I work too many hours I worry about losing my job ! don't have the flexibility to meet family responsibilities I am under too much stress I do not have the skills to get 0 better job It's hard to find quality child or elder care that I can afford I have lost 0 job or 0 promotion because of my race or sex 1 know someone who lost 0 job or promotion because of race or sex suffer other problems of my job (piease expiain below): News United States Department of Labor Office of Information Washington, D.C. 20210 USDL: 94-510 CONTACT: Lisa Lederer FOR RELEASE: OFFICE: (202) 371-1999 EMBARGOED UNTIL 11:30 AM Lauren Asher Friday, Oct. 14, 1994 (202) 219-6631 STRONG CONSENSUS FOR CHANGE EMERGES AS A QUARTER OF A MILLION AMERICAN WOMEN SPEAK OUT THROUGH WORKING WOMEN COUNT! Improved Pay and Benefits, Help Balancing Work and Family, Fighting Discrimination Are Critical, Working Women Say American women like their jobs but want changes that reduce stress, improve pay and benefits, help them balance work and family responsibilities, increase job training opportunities and end discrimination. Those and other results of Working Women Count!, a groundbreaking initiative by the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, were released today at a news conference at the Old Executive Office Building with Vice President Al Gore, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich and other officials. "More than a quarter of a million women took the time to respond and showed their faith in the process when they sent in their questionnaires. We intend to listen," said Gore. "Just a few months ago, we launched an unprecedented effort to talk directly to the experts themselves -- America's working women. Their response exceeded all our expectations, said Mrs. Clinton. "We will continue to listen and respond to the concerns of working women and working families." Working Women Count! found a strong consensus for change among women in three areas -- compensation (pay and benefits), work and family policies and the undervaluing of women's work (equal opportunity and training). The popularly distributed Working Women Count! questionnaire was complemented by a scientific phone survey using the same questions with a nationally representative, random sample of 1,200 working women. Among the results is the fact that four in five women (79 percent) either "love" or "like" their jobs, but women also see a need for change: -- Too much stress is a serious problem for more than half the women in both the popular (58 percent) and scientific samples (59 percent), cutting across income and occupational groups. -more- -2- Two-thirds of women (65 percent) say improving pay scales is a high priority. Fifty-five percent of women in the popular sample and 49 percent in the scientific sample say they are not getting paid what they are worth. Health and pension benefits are critical concerns. Health care insurance for all is women's number one priority. In the scientific sample, 43 percent of women who work part- time and 34 percent of women over age 55 lack health insurance, while a scant 19 percent rate their health insurance plans as excellent. Fifty-seven percent of respondents give their pension plans negative ratings, including 23 percent who have no pension at all. Three-fifths of women in the scientific sample (61 percent) say they have little or no ability to advance. In the scientific sample, 14 percent of white women and 26 percent of women of color report losing a job or promotion on the basis of their gender or race. Many women consider on-the-job training (52 percent in the scientific and 61 percent in the popular sample) and insuring equal opportunity (51 percent in the scientific and 63 percent in the popular sample) priorities for change. -- The number one issue women would like to talk to President Clinton about is their difficulty balancing work and family -- including child care. Unequal or unfair pay is second, and lack of equal treatment and equal opportunity is third. -- More than half (56 percent) of women with children under age five say that finding affordable child care is a serious problem. More than half (53 percent) of this group say that "information about or support for child or dependent care" is a very high priority for change. Women executives or managers are much more likely to have family-friendly workplaces than women in blue-collar jobs. Three in five women (63 percent) who work as executives or managers -- compared to only 42 percent of women who work in low-wage blue collar jobs -- rated their jobs as either excellent or good in terms of support for family responsibilities in the scientific sample. "In vast numbers and with extraordinary candor and insight, working women have told us about their lives, Reich said. "Women want the opportunity and the resources to lead full, productive lives. They want to be treated not as expendable -more- -3- commodities, but as essential assets. And they want to work in an environment that treats them with dignity, respects the importance of their families and invests in their skills." "Through Working Women Count!, women have raised serious concerns,' said Women's Bureau Director Karen Nussbaum. "Only by addressing these issues will we fully and fairly value women. Government, businesses, unions, national and grassroots organizations and the media all have a role to play in finding solutions. The Clinton Administration has made important progress in improving the lives of working women by signing the Family and Medical Leave Act into law and through the Head Start Reauthorization bill. The voices of America's working women will add the fuel to power even greater progress in the future." The Working Women Count! questionnaire was distributed by more than 1,600 partners, including businesses, labor unions, magazines, newspapers, national and community-based organizations and government agencies. They included 300 businesses (from Xerox Corporation to local hair salons), more than 900 national and community-based organizations (including the YWCA, the National Association of Black Mayors and the National Council of La Raza), 75 international unions and locals, 10 federal and 100 state agencies, mayors, members of Congress, tribal governments, universities, community colleges, historically black schools, and the Compuserve and Prodigy on-line services. Four national magazines, 40 daily newspapers, and many weekly and foreign language newspapers published the questionnaire, and 175 stations ran public service announcements. Working Women Count! was launched May 5th; the deadline to return questionnaires was August 31st. The questionnaire was developed by the Women's Bureau and distributed in all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico. It was translated into Braille and five languages -- Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. The Women's Bureau was created by Congress in 1920 to "promote the welfare of wage-earning women.' # # # NOTE: Media can order full copies of WORKING WOMEN COUNT! A REPORT TO THE NATION from Lisa Lederer at 202/371-1999. Also available is a demographic profile of working women in each state, and a list of Working Women Count! partners in each state. -4- - This information will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice Phone: 202-219-6060, TDD Message Referral Phone: 1-800-326-2577. The text of this release is available from the Department of Labor electronic bulletin board, LABOR NEWS, at 202-219-4784. Callers must pay any toll-call charges. 300, 1200, 2400, 9600 or 14,400 BAUD; Parity: None; Data Bits = 8; Stop Bit = 1. Voice phone: 202-219-8831. 10,94 WORKING WOMEN COUNT! PARTNER SUMMARY More than 1,600 partners joined the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor to distribute the Working Women Count! questionnaire to their members, readers, constituents, employees and/or customers. Below is a summary, with examples, of the number and variety of participating organizations. A complete, state-by-state listing is attached. 4 National Magazines printed the questionnaire: Essence, Ms., Working Mother and Working Woman 40 Daily Newspapers printed the questionnaire, including the Atlanta Constitution, Miami Herald (in English and Spanish), Chi-Am Daily, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Flint Journal, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Daily News, and Philadelphia Daily News; many have already reported on their own results 300- Businesses, from Xerox and NYNEX to the West 47th Street Salon and Day Spa in Kansas City, MO and Skelly's Pub in Sioux Falls, SD 75- Labor Unions, including large international unions and many locals 58 Senators and Members of Congress (bipartisan) 75+ National Organizations like Business and Professional Women, the National Black Nurses' Association, National Conference of Black Mayors, National Council of La Raza, 9tc5, and YWCA of the USA 900+ State and Local Organizations ranging from grassroots groups like La Alianza Cannery Workers Organization Project to Native American groups like the Chippewa Cree Tribe; from state governments like Arizona, Maryland, Nevada and Wyoming, to big city governments like Atlanta, Miami and New York, to small city governments like Fort Collins, CO and Hutchinson, KS; from state universities to community colleges; and women's and workers' organizations around the country 10+ Federal Agencies: Agriculture, Education, Energy, General Services Administration, Health and Human Services, Justice, Labor, Office of Personnel Management, and Veterans' Affairs targeted all of their women employees; many others distributed to select offices 4 On-Line - Services, including Compuserve and Prodigy WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF ALABAMA Alabama Women's Agenda, Birmingham Central Alabama OIC, Montgomery Federal Women's Program, Huntsville Opportunities Industrial Centers, Montgomery Retail, Wholesale & Dept. Store Union, AFL-CIO, Birmingham University of Alabama Center on Education and Research, Birmingham YWCA, Birmingham WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF ALASKA Alaska Department of Education, Juneau Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of AK, Juneau Federally Employed Women-Mendenhall Chapter #139, Juneau Juneau Women's Council, Juneau Klukwan, Inc., Juneau Mt. Redoubt, Alaska Chapter, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Kenai WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA Advocates for the Disabled, Phoenix Arizona Business & Professional Women's Foundation, Scottsdale Arizona Department of Administration, Phoenix Arizona Department of Corrections, Phoenix Arizona Department of Economic Security, Phoenix Arizona Department of Transportation, Phoenix Arizona Governor's Office for Excellence, Phoenix Arizona Governor's Office for Women, Phoenix Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona State University-School of Justice Studies, College of Law, Tempe Arthur Anderson & Company, Phoenix Association for Supportive Child Care, Tempe Bank One of America, Phoenix Big 4 Restaurants, Phoenix Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., Phoenix Circle K Corporation, Phoenix Del Webb Corporation, Scottsdale Girl Scouts Council, Phoenix Honorable Karan English, Flagstaff Honorable John McCain, Phoenix Inter-Tribal Council, Phoenix Kinder Care Learning Centers, Inc., Glendale M ONE, Inc., Phoenix Maricopa County Recorder's Office, Phoenix Motorola Inc., Scottsdale Pima County Attorney's Office, Florence Pima County/Tucson Women's Commission, Tucson Safeway Stores, Inc., Tempe St. Joseph's Hospital, Phoenix Tucson Black Women's Task Force, Tucson Tucson Newspapers, Inc., Tucson Tucson Times, Tucson University Career Women-Arizona State University, Tempe Wal-Mart, Phoenix YWCA, Phoenix Yuma Private Industry Council, Inc., Yuma Zonta International, Mesa WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS Economic Fayetteville Opportunity Association of Washington County, Southeast Arkansas Economic Development District, Pine Bluff Women's Project, Little Rock WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Airtouch Communications, Walnut Creek Alliance of Businesses for Childcare Development, Los Angeles Alumnae Resources, San Francisco American Association for Medical Transcription, Modesto American Business Women's Association, San Pedro Amex Life Assurance, San Rafael Asian Business Co-op, Rosemead Asian Immigrant Women Advocates, Oakland Azusa Pacific University /Graduate School of Theology, Azusa Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers Local 24, Redwood City Bananas, Oakland Bay Area Network of Latin America (BANELA), San Francisco Bay Area Women's Resource Center, San Francisco CARENCEN, San Francisco CHI-AM Daily, Monterey Park California Association of Life Underwriters, Oakland California Commission on the Status of Women, Sacramento California School Employees Association (CSEA), San Jose California Women's Law Center, Los Angeles Career Action Center, Palo Alto The Center for Work and the Family, Berkeley Century Freeway Women's Employment Program, Compton Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County City of Palo Alto City of San Mateo - Police Department Coalition of Labor Union Women - East Bay Chapter, Oakland Commission on the Status of Women, San Francisco Corporate Child Care Consultation, San Francisco Crystal Stairs, Inc., Los Angeles Equal Means Journal: Ms. Foundation for Women, Berkeley Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), San Francisco Family Care, Inc., Pleasanton Frontline Campaigns, Berkeley GENENTECH, South San Francisco The Hispanic Reporter, Los Angeles Honorable Barbara Boxer, San Francisco Honorable Dianne Feinstein, Los Angeles Honorable Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Honorable Lucille Roybal-Allard, Los Angeles Honorable Lynn Woolsey, California Information & Referral Services, Inc., San Jose Information Access Company, Foster City Institute for Childhood Resources, San Francisco InterMedia Partners, San Francisco International Child Resource Institute, Oakland Jewish Family & Children's Services, San Francisco Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Oakland The Korea Central Daily News, Los Angeles La Alianza - Cannery Workers Organizing Project, Watsonville Labor Project for Working Families, Berkeley Last Monday Club, Oakland League of Women Voters of San Francisco, San Francisco Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, San Francisco LifeScan, Milpitas Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Los Angeles Women's Foundation, Los Angeles MAAC Project, National City William M. Mercer, Inc., San Francisco NAACP Western Region, Los Angeles NCO/Advancement Enterprises, Ukiah National Council of Jewish Women, Los Angeles National Immigration Law Project, Los Angeles National Latina Health Organization, Oakland Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City New Ways to Work, San Francisco Occupational Health Services Inc., Oakland One Small Step Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition, San Francisco Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco Professional & Business Women's Conference Inc., San Mateo Project Work & Family 2000, Foster City Public Interest Clearinghouse, San Francisco SRI International, Menlo Park San Francisco Bay Area Federal Executive Board, Oakland San Francisco Women Lawyers Alliance, San Francisco San Francisco Womens Center Inc., San Francisco San Jose Area Home Economics Association, San Jose San Mateo County Transit District, San Carlos San Mateo Times, San Mateo Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety & Health, San Jose Santa Cruz County Women's Commission, Santa Cruz Service Employees Int'l Union-SF Western Reg. Ofc., San Francisco Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View Southern California Tradeswomen Network, Los Angeles Structural Integrity Assoc., Inc., San Jose Turning Point Career Center, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco U.S. Postal Inspection Services, San Francisco US HHS Region IX (Health & Human Services Reg. 9), San Francisco USDA Food and Nutrition Service, San Francisco USDOL Region 9/Federal Womens Program, San Francisco Vietnamese Fishermen's Association of America, Oakland Wells Fargo Alarm Services, San Diego Women In Community Service, San Francisco Women at Work, Pasadena The Women's Foundation, San Francisco Women's Initiative for Self Employment (WISE), San Francisco Women's Network of Contra Costa County, Walnut Creek Women's Resource Center, San Luis Obispo Xerox Corporation, El Segundo YWCA in Santa Clara Valley, San Jose YWCA of San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo Counties WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF COLORADO AT&T, Denver Adams County School District 14, Commerce City African American Women 40 Plus, Inc., Aurora Air Liquide, Denver Allied Group, Inc., Denver Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Aurora American Business Women's Association, Denver American Indian Higher Education Consortium, Lafayette Asian Pacific Development Center, Denver The Athena Group, Denver BPW (Colorado), Denver Bank of Boulder, Boulder Boulder Publishing, Inc., Boulder The Briles Group, Inc., Denver Brothers Redevelopment, Inc., Denver CO Institute for Gender Equity in Vocational Educ., Lakewood Capital Heights Pharmacy, Denver Career Choices, Denver City of Fort Collins Light and Power Company, Fort Collins City of Westminster Coalition of Labor Union Women - Denver Metro Chap, Denver Colorado American Association of University Women, Englewood Colorado Business, Englewood Colorado Christian Home, Denver Colorado Department of Education, Educational Equity Programs and Services Colorado Federation of Business & Professional Women, Denver Colorado Federation of Teachers, Denver Colorado Housing and Finance Authority, Denver Colorado Mental Health Institute of Pueblo, Pueblo Colorado National Bank, Denver Colorado Rural Housing Development Corporation, Westminster Colorado State AFL-CIO, Denver Colorado Women's Agenda, Denver Colorado Women's Chamber of Commerce, Denver Colorado Women's Employment & Education, Denver Community College of Denver Business & Governmental School Community College of Denver-Women's Resource Center Conference Associates, Denver DMJM, Denver Dames & Moore, Denver Denver Alumnae Chapter-Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Denver Denver Business Women's Network The Denver Art Museum, Denver Denver Business Women's Network, Denver Denver Center for Performing Arts, Denver Denver Indian Center, Inc., Denver The Denver Post, Denver The Denver Public Library, Denver Denver Water, Denver Denver Women's Commission, Denver Department of Interior, Office of Surface Mining, Denver Discount Bargain Books, Denver Dissen Swartz P.C., Englewood ERIC Group, Englewood The Eagle Group, Denver Emily Mann Consultants, Aurora The Empowerment Program, Denver Exabyte Corporation, Boulder Fantasy Hair Design, Aurora Federally Employed Women High Plains Chapter, Aurora First Data Corporation, Englewood First National Summitt Bank, Gunnison Firstbanks of Colorado, Lakewood Fulton Elementary School, Aurora Gensler & Associates, Denver Guarantee National Insurance, Englewood Honorable Hank Brown, Denver Honorable Scott McInnis, Pueblo Honorable Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Denver Honorable Patricia Schroeder, Denver Hotel & Restaurant Employees Local Union #14, Denver Inst. for Women's Studies & Services at Metropolitan, Denver International Association of Machinists, Commerce City Jack and Jill Denver, Littleton Joya Wonderlight Music, Littleton KMGH-TV, McGraw Hill Broadcasting, Denver KRMA-Channel 6, Denver Kaiser Permanente, Denver Kevin J. Marshall, D.D.S., Aurora Latin American Research & Service Agency (LARASA), Denver Leprino Foods, Denver Lewan and Associates, Inc., Denver M.A. Mortenson Company, Denver The Maids, Aurora The Mental Health Corporation of Denver, Denver Metro Wastewater, Denver Metropolitan State College, Denver MiCasa Resource Center for Women, Inc., Denver National Jewish Center, Immunology & Respiratory Med., Denver National Civic League, Denver National Council of Negro Women, Denver National Image, Inc., Denver National Renewable Energy Laboratories, Golden New Belgium Brewing Company, Ft. Collins Non Traditional Financial Services, Littleton Norgren Company, Littleton North Metro Community Services, Westminster Northeast Women's Center, Denver Norwest Banks, Denver Park Hill for a Safe Neighborhood, Denver Penrose St. Francis Health Care System, Colorado Springs Peoples Presbyterian, Denver Piper Jaffray, Boulder Planned Parenthood, Boulder Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, Aurora Regional Transportation District, Denver Regis University, Denver Rehability, Denver Resources Trust Company, Englewood Rising Star Missionary Baptist Church, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Denver Rocky Mountain Tradeswomen Assosciation, Broomfield Ruth Welle Consultants, Englewood School of Nursing, Denver Securities & Exchange Commission, Denver Service Employees International Union Local 105, Denver Servicio De La Raza, Denver Smith Lange & Associates, Highlands Ranch Social Security Administration, Denver The Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver Travel Pals, Inc., Denver US Department of Commerce, Boulder US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Denver US Department of Interior-National Park Service, Lakewood US Department of Labor-Federal Women's Program, Denver US Dept of Justice-Immigration & Naturalization, Denver United Technologies/Hamilton Standard Commercial, CO Springs University of Colorado, Denver Wackenhut Corrections Corporation/INS, Aurora Western Farm Bureau, Denver William M. Mercer, Incorporated, Denver Women's Resource Agency, Colorado Springs YWCA of Boulder County, Boulder YWCA of Metropolitan Denver WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT Connecticut Commission on Children, Hartford Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, Hartford Connecticut Post, Bridgeport Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, Hartford Greenwich News, Westport HMA Inc., Hamden Hartford Courant, Hartford Honorable Rosa DeLauro, New Haven Honorable Chris Dodd, Weathersfield Honorable Nancy Johnson, New Britain Honorable Christopher Shays, Bridgeport Inquirer Publications, Hartford Institute for the Hispanic Family, Hartford International Executive Service Corps, Stamford The Kennedy Center, Inc., Bridgeport MADD-Bridgeport, CT, Bridgeport NWPC of Connecticut, Bristol National Organization for Women, Hartford New Haven Register, New Haven Northend Agent, Hartford Norwalk Medical Group, Norwalk Olin Corporation, Stamford Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk Permanent Commission of the Status of Women, Hartford Republican-American Waterbury, Waterbury Shawmut National Corporation, Hartford Today's Woman (Waterbury-Republican-American), Waterbury Town of West Hartford Uniroyal Chemical, Waterbury Vernon Junior Women's Club, Vernon Visiting Nurse Assoc. of South Central Connecticut, New Haven Women's Political Caucus, Bristol Xerox Corporation-Stamford WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE Delaware Commission for Women, Wilmington Delaware Wilmington State American Association of University Women, Women's Leadership Center, Wilmington WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 9 to 5 National Assoc of Working Women DC area, Washington D.C. AFGE, Washington D.C. AFL-CIO, Washington D.C. AFSCME, Washington D.C. American Federation of Government Employees, Washington D.C. American Federation of Teachers, Washington D.C. American Nurses Association, Washington D.C. Association of Flight Attendants, Washington D.C. Association of Research Libraries, Washington D.C. Association of Women in International Trade, Inc., Washington D.C. Banks & Johnson Associates, Washington D.C. Bass and Howes, Washington D.C. Black Women's Agenda, Washington D.C. Business and Professional Women, Inc., Washington D.C. Businesses for Social Responsibility, Washington D.C. Capital Hill Women's Political Caucus, Washington D.C. Center for Policy Alternatives, Washington D.C. Central Pension Fund, Washington D.C. The Children's Foundation, Washington D.C. Church Women United, Washington D.C. The Classification & Compensation Society, Washington D.C. The Corporate Response Group Inc./Corprotec Inc., Washington D.C. Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Washington D.C. General Board of Global Ministries, Washington D.C. The Harrison Center for Career Education, Washington D.C. Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C. Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington D.C. International Union of Bricklayers & Allied Craftsmen, Washington D.C. Interaction, Washington D.C. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Washington D.C. International Union of Operating Engineers, Washington D.C. Laborers' Int'l Union of North America (LIUNA), Washington D.C. Methodist Church Women's Inc., Washington D.C. Metropolitan Women's Organizing Project (MWOP), Washington D.C. National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, Washington D.C. National Center for the Early Childhood Workforce, Washington D.C. National Air Traffic Controllers Assoc (NATCA), Washington D.C. National Association of Commissions for Women, Washington D.C. National Association of Hispanic Nurses, Washington D.C. National Black Nurses Association, Washington D.C. National Committee on Pay Equity, Washington D.C. National Council of LA RAZA, Washington D.C. National Council of Negro Women, Washington D.C. National Education Association, Washington D.C. National Hispana Leadership Institute, Washington D.C. National Women's Political Caucus, Washington D.C. National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women's Clubs, Washington DC National Foundation for Women Business Owners, Washington D.C. National Postal Mailhandlers Union (NPMHU), Washington D.C. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Washington D.C. Organization of Chinese Americans, Washington D.C. Pension Rights Center/Women's Project, Washington D.C. People For the American Way, Washington D.C. Planned Parenthood Association, Washington D.C. SALUD, Inc., Washington D.C. Service Employees International Union, Washington D.C. Tri-State Civil Liberties Dept. (Elks), Washington D.C. United Methodist Church, Women's Division, Washington D.C. US Department of Health & Human Services, Washington D.C. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington D.C. US Patent and Trademark Office, Washington D.C. US Department of Agriculture, Washington D.C. US Department of Education, Washington D.C. US Department of Energy, Washington D.C. US Department of Justice, Washington D.C. US Dept of Veterans Affairs/Ofc. of Equal Oppt., Washington D.C. The Union Institute Center for Women, Washington D.C. Union Privilege AFL-CIO, Washington D.C. United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Washington D.C. United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union, Washington D.C. United Methodist Church, Women's Division, Washington D.C. Washington Child Development Council, Washington D.C. Wider Opportunities for Women, Washington D.C. Women Judges' Fund for Justice, Washington D.C. Women Work! The Nat'l Network for Women's Emplymt, Washington D.C. Women's Information Network, Washington D.C. Women's National Democratic Club, Washington D.C. YWCA of the USA, Washington D.C. Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc., Washington D.C. WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA Adult Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Program, Tallahassee AWMI SO FLA. CHAPTER, Margate Alpi Head Start Program, Ft. Pierce American Business Women's Association, Fort Walton Beach Broward County Women Lawyer's Association, Ft. Lauderdale Casino Drywall, Inc., Pompano Beach Central Florida Women's Resource Center, Inc., Orlando The Center for Women, Tampa Centro Campesino Farmworker Center, Homestead Child Care Resource & Referral, Inc., Delray Beach Child Care Services, Fort Walton Beach City of Hollywood City of Miami-Dept of Equal Opp/Diversity Programs, Miami Cuban American National Council, Inc., Miami Dade County Commission on Status of Women (DCCOSW), Miami Everglades Community Association, Florida City Farmworkers Self-Help, Dade City Federal Executive Board, Miami Florida Children's Forum, Tallahassee Florida Museum of Hispanic Art, Miami Hispanic Coalition, Miami Honorable Corrine Brown, Jacksonville Honorable Tillie Fowler, Jacksonville Jacksonville Women's Lawyers Association, Jacksonville Manatee County Head Start, Bradenton Miami Herald, Miami Office of Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action, Hollywood Palm Beach Cty Comm on the Status of Women, West Palm Beach Redlands Christian Migrant Association, Immokalee Resource Center for Women, Inc., Largo Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, Ft. Lauderdale W.R. Grace & Co., Boca Raton Walker's Aviation, Fort Lauderdale Walt Disney World Co, Lake Buena Vista Wesley House Child Care Agency, Key West Women's Resource Center of Manatee, Inc., Bradenton WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA 9to5, Atlanta AFSCME, Atlanta American Assoc. of Occupational Health Nurses, Atlanta Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, Atlanta Atlanta Desktop, Atlanta Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta Atlanta Prevention Connection, Atlanta Atlanta Women's Fund, Atlanta Bernie Mercer & Company, Atlanta City of Atlanta, GA/Bureau of Personnel Admin., Atlanta Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Atlanta Concerted Services, Inc. -Head Start Program, Waycross Decatur Alumnae Chap. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Decatur Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Decatur Dogwood City Business & Professional Women, Atlanta Georgia Department of Technical & Adult Education, Atlanta Goodwill Industries of Atlanta, Atlanta Hillside Chapel and Truth Center, Inc., Atlanta Honorable Paul Coverdell, Atlanta Honorable Cynthia McKinney, Decatur Metro Atlanta Chapter-Older Women's League, Atlanta National Alliance of Business, Atlanta National Conference of Black Mayors, Inc., Atlanta Office of Adult Literacy, Atlanta Retail Wholesale Department Store Union RWDSU, Atlanta Satilla Child Care Resource & Referral Agency Inc., Waycross Turner Broadcasting, Atlanta Women Business Owners, Atlanta YWCA, Greater Atlanta WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF HAWAII ALU LIKE, Inc., Honolulu Brigham Young University of Hawaii/Univ. Relations, Laie City and County of Honolulu-Dept. of Personnel Federal Women's Council, Honolulu Hawaii State Commission on The Status of Women, Honolulu Honolulu County Committee on the Status of Women Honorable Patsy Mink, Honolulu Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Honolulu Leeward Community College Office of the Governor, Office of Affirmative Action, Honolulu University of Hawaii, East-West Center, Honolulu YWCA of O'ahu, Honolulu WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF IDAHO American Association of University Women-Orofino Beach Honorable Mary Lou Reed, Coeur & Alene Idaho Human Rights Commission, Boise Idaho Women's Network, Inc., Boise Soroptimist International of Boise Southwest Idaho Private Industry Council, Boise University of Idaho Cooperative Extension System, Moscow WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS American Agri-Women, Shannon American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), Chicago American Association of University Women-IL, Inc., Effingham Aztec Corporation, Naperville Cambodian Association of Illinois, Chicago Centro Romero, Chicago Chicago Chapter of The Nat'l Organization for Women Chicago Children's Museum Chicago Council on Urban Affairs The Chicago Foundation for Women Chicago Jobs Council Chicago Metropolitan Association Chicago Women In Trades Chicagoland 9 to 5, Chicago Child Care Connection/Illinois Central College, East Peoria Chinese American Service League, Chicago Citizens Assembly-Citizens Council on Women, Springfield City of Chicago-Department of Personnel Cook County Clerk's Office, Chicago Day Care Action Council of Illinois, Chicago DePaul University Career Development Center, Chicago Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago, Chicago Federally Employed Women - Windy City Chapter, Chicago Foundation for Housing and Speech Rehabilitation, Chicago Foundation for Hearing & Speech Rehabilitation, Chicago Honorable Carol Moseley Braun, Chicago Honorable Paul Simon, Chicago Household International Inc., Prospects Heights Illinois Democratic Women, Orion Illinois Department of Commerce & Community Affair, Chicago Illinois Department of Employment Security, Chicago Illinois Department of Human Rights, Chicago Illinois Migrant Council (IMC), Chicago Illinois Power, Decatur Illinois State Curriculum Center, Springfield Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago La Leche League International, Schaumburg Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago Loyola University Chicago McDonald's, Oak Brook Midwest Women's Center, Chicago Mujeres Latinas En Accion, Chicago NA'AMAT USA Suburban Chicago Council, Northfield Nat'l Consortium of Medical Representative (NCMR), Chicago Nat'l Women's Political Caucus of Greater Chicago National Assembly of Religious Women, Chicago National Forum for Black Public Administrators, Chicago North Chicago V.A. Medical Center, Fed. Wom. Prog., N. Chicago Northern IL Univ., Adult Learning Resource Center, Des Plaines Owl-Illinois, Chicago Prairienet, Champaign Project NOW-CAA, Rock Island Quincy Herald Whig, Quincy Ross & Hardies, Chicago Sears Roebuck and Company, Hoffman Estates Senator Paul Simon, Chicago Southwest Women Working Together, Chicago Stein & Company Female Employment Initiative, Chicago Top Ladies of Distinction, Area 3, Belleville US Commission on Civil Rights, Chicago US Small Business Administration/Chicago Dist Office, Chicago USG Corporation - Women's Network, Chicago University of Illinois, Cooperative Education Program, Chicago University of Illinois, Master of Public Administration Program, Chicago University of Illinois, Office of Women's Affairs, Chicago University of Illinois-Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations, Chicago University of Illinois, Women Studies Program, Chicago University of Illinois-Career Services, Chicago Women Employed, Chicago Women in Management, Chicago Women's Business Development Center, Chicago Women's Council of Realtors, Chicago The Women's Office, Chicago YWCA of Northeastern Illinois, Waukegan YWCA, Pekin YWCA, Peoria YWCA, Rockford YWCA of Sterling-Rock Falls, Sterling Zonta International, Chicago WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF INDIANA AFL-CIO Appalachian Council, Inc.-Office of Job Corps, La Porte AFL-CIO Labor Institute for Training, Indianapolis Affirmative Action Office-IUPUI, Indianapolis Bloomington Human Rights Commission, Bloomington Buis & Associates, Indianapolis Ft. Wayne Women's Bureau, Ft. Wayne The Forum: Dedicated to Wom Business Development, Terre Haute Greater Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce, Terre Haute Indiana State University, Center for Research & Mgmt. Service, Terre Haute Indiana Assoc. for Child Care Resource & Referral, Indianapolis Indiana Department of Education, Indianapolis Indiana State University, Women's Resource Center, Terre Haute Indiana University Northwest, Division of Labor Studies, Gary Indiana University, South Bend Division Labor Studies, South Bend Indiana University-Division of Labor Studies, Bloomington Indiana Vocational Association, Madison Indiana Women & Work Conference, Indianapolis Indianapolis Urban League, Inc., Indianapolis Inland Steel Company, East Chicago Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana, Fort Wayne The Labor Banner, LaPorte Midwest Women's Forum Newsmagazine, Cedar Lake Network of Women In Business, Indianapolis Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council, Ft. Wayne Private Industry Council, Evansville Small Business Development Center, South Bend South Bend Tribune, South Bend Southeastern Indiana Workforce Development Center, Greensburg Southwest Indiana NOW, Evansville Women's Health Task Force, Indianapolis Women's Work! The Indiana Network, Vincennes YWCA, Fort Wayne YWCA, Indianapolis YWCA of St. Joseph County, South Bend YWCA of the Calumet Area, Hammond WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF IOWA Adult Re-Entry Program - Northeast Iowa Comm College, Dubuque ECIA-Job Training Partnership, Dubuque Iowa Commission on the Status of Women, Des Moines Iowa Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, Des Moines Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon University of Iowa Pre-Vocational Training Program, Iowa City WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF KANSAS The Brown Foundation, Topeka City of Hutchinson, Kansas, Hutchinson City of Overland Park, Kansas, Overland Park Community Outreach Counseling Program, Kansas City The Greater Kansas City Federal Executive Board, Kansas City Heart of America Family Services, Kansas City Johnson/Wyandotte Counties NOW, Lenexa KU Dependent Care Referral Service, Lawrence Kansas Advisory Committee on Hispanic, Topeka Kansas Department of Social & Rehabilitation Serv., Chanute Kansas National Guard Federal Women's Program, Topeka Labette Community College, Parsons The MILL/Fort Scott Community College, Fort Scott Oak Park Mall, Overland Park Parsons Precision Products, Parsons Prairie Shore Inc., Overland Park Professional Women of Southwestern Bell-KS City Chapter, Mission Professional Secretary International-City of Kansas City, Kansas City Safehome, Inc., Overland Park St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Overland Park Topeka Branch American Assoc of University Women, Topeka Topeka Mayor's Commission on The Status of Women, Topeka Wichita Commission on the Status of Women, Wichita Winfield Daily Courier, Winfield Women's Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City, KS, Kansas City Women's Resource Network (WRN), Shawnee Mission WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY Cabinet For Human Resources, Frankfort Commonwealth of Kentucky, Frankfort Community Coordinated Child Care, Louisville Henry Vogt Machine Co., Louisville Kentucky Administration and Finance Cabinet Kentucky Bar Association for Women, Corbin Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Frankfort Kentucky Commission on Women, Prospect Kentucky Labor Cabinet, Frankfort Kentucky Tourism Cabinet, Frankfort Kentucky Workforce Development Cabinet, Frankfort Northern Kentucky University Women's Center, Highland Heights Workforce Development Cabinet, Frankfort WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Agenda for Children/CCR, New Orleans Jordan Cummings, Ltd. (JCL), New Orleans Louisiana Governor's Office of Women's Services, Baton Rouge US Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MAINE Aroostook Band of Micmacs, Presque Isle Bureau of Elder and Adult Services, Augusta Gender Issues in Education Cooperative, Rockport Honorable Olympia Snowe, Bangor Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Center, Bangor Maine Civil Liberties Union, Portland Maine Department of Transportation, Augusta Maine Human Rights Commission, Augusta Maine Tradeswomen Network, Portland Maine Women's Business Development Corporation, Bangor Penobscat Nation, Old Town People's Heritage Bank, Portland TRANSITIONS - Maine Displaced Homemakers Program, Augusta Training & Development Corporation, Bucksport Women Unlimited, Augusta Women's Resource Center - University of Maine, Orono WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND Abt Associates, Inc., Bethesda Bakery, Confectionery & Tobacco Workers Int'l Union, Kensington BioConferences International, Inc., Bethesda Clearinghouse on Women's Issues, Friendship Heights Financial Women International, Bethesda Honorable Constance Morella Honorable Barbara Mikulski, Baltimore Honorable Steny Hoyer, Bowie Maryland Commission on Human Relations, Baltimore Maryland State Government, Baltimore Metropolitan Women's Organizing Project, Silver Spring Montgomery Community College Continuing Education, Rockville Montgomery County Commission for Women, Rockville The Newspaper Guild, Silver Spring Public Health Service Women's Network, Rockville RENEW - Carroll Community College, Westminster Transportation Communications International Union, Rockville Women Today - A Monthly Tabloid, Gaithersburg WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS Allin and Bacon Publishing, Needham Alternative Work Options, Boston Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT), Williamstown Asian American Civic Association, Boston Au Bon Pain Co., Inc., Boston BASF Bioresearch Corporation, Worcester Barlower Associates, Boston Bay State Skills Corporation (BSSC), Boston Berkshire Community Action Council, Inc., Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, Chestnut Hill Boston Federal Executive Board, Boston Boston Federal Savings Bank, Burlington Boston Women's Opportunity Committee, Boston The Bottom Line, Springfield Branders University Women's Study Program, Waltham Brazilian Times, Somerville Brockton/West Roxbury VA Medical Center, West Roxbury Business & Professional Women's Clubs of Cape Cod, Hyannis Child Care Works, New Bedford Chinese Progressive Association Workers Center, Boston Comptroller, Naval Air Station, South Weymouth CompuWorks, Pittsfield Cran Barry Inc., East Boston Defense Contract Audit Agency, Lexington Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.-Eastern Region, Randolph Department of Employment and Training, Boston Department of Health & Hospitals, Boston EDCO Youth Alternative, Boston EDS, Waltham East Boston Harborside Community Center, East Boston Ecumenical Social Action Committee, Inc., Jamaica Plain Education Development Center, WEEA Publishing, Newton Elevator Constructors, Local #4, Brighton Gender Issues Council, Bentley College, Waltham Greater Boston Legal Services, UAW Local 2320, Boston Halloran & Company, Boston Honorable Barney Frank, Newton Honorable Edward Kennedy, Boston Honorable Martin Meehan, Marlborough Honorable Gerry E. Studds, Quincy Jewish Vocational Services, Boston Labor Studies Program, CPCS, U Mass/Boston, Boston Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, North Andover Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus, Boston Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training, Boston Massachusetts Federation of Business & Prof. Women, Raynham Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts Nurses Association, Canton Massachusetts Pile Drivers Local Union 56, South Boston Middlesex News, Framingham National Park Service, Boston, MA - Dept of Interior, Boston National Archives & Records Administration (NARA), Waltham National Council of Jewish Women, Dorchester National Organization for Women-Boston National Women's Committee, Waltham The News, Southbridge Oficina Hispana, Roxbury Plymouth Rock Assurance Corporation, Boston Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge Radcliff Camir Senias, Cambridge Reebok International, Ltd., Stoughton Ryka Rose Foundation, Norwood SEIU Local 509, Cambridge Salem State College, Salem Simmons Institute for Leadership and Change, Boston Sing Tao News, Boston Skadden, Arps, Slate, Mergher & Flam, Boston Social Justice for Women, Inc., Boston Soroptimist International Northeastern, Hingham South Shore Women's Business Network, Accord Springfield Republican, Springfield Sterling & Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown TJX Companies, Inc., Framingham Taunton Daily Gazette, Taunton Teamsters Local 122, Boston US Army Corps of Engineers, Waltham US Department of Defense, Boston United Front Child Development Programs Inc., New Bedford Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley Whittier Partners, Boston Women In The Building Trades, Jamaica Plain Women Unlimited Magazine, Springfield Women of AT&T (WATT-MV), North Andover Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston Women's Institute for Housing & Economic Dev., Boston Women's Services of Western Mass., Pittsfield Women's Statewide Legislative Network & Alliance, Boston Workforce Management, Wellesley WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MICHIGAN American Association of University Women of Michigan, Troy CIESIN, University Center City of Detroit, Human Rights Commission, Detroit Coalition of Labor Union Women Metro-Detroit Chap, Detroit Council on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault, Midland Domestic Assault/Rape Elimination Services (DARES), Port Huron Every Woman's Place, Muskegon Family and Children's Service Child Care Concepts, Midland Family Care Resources Program, Ann Arbor The Flint Journal, Flint Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids Hispanic Center of Western Michigan, Grand Rapids Honorable Barbara-Rose Collins, Detroit Huron Valley EAPA, Inkster Jackson "Y" Center, Inc., Jackson Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Kent County Coalition of Labor Union Women, Wyoming Labor Ed Program, School of Labor & Ind. Relations, E. Lansing Lansing Community College-Women's Resource Center, Lansing Lansing State Journal, Lansing Latino Family Services, Detroit Marquette Women's Center, Marquette Michigan Commission on Spanish Speaking Affairs, Lansing Michigan Department of Education, Lansing Michigan Women's Commission, Lansing Michigan Women's Foundation, Lansing Michigan Women's Studies Association, Inc., Lansing Midwest Migrant Health Info Office, Monroe Mott Community College, Flint NAACP - Detroit Chapter, Detroit Nippondenso Manufacturing USA, Inc., Battle Creek Northwest Michigan 4C Council, Traverse City Programs for Educational Opportunity, Ann Arbor Safe Shelta, Inc., Benton Harbor Soroptimist International of Trenton, Trenton St. Joseph Herald Palladium, St. Joseph UAW-Chrysler National Training Center, Detroit University of MI, Program for Educational Opportunity, Ann Arbor WINGS - Women Involved In Giving Support, Troy Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency, Wayne Women In State Government, Lansing Women's Center, Inc., Marquette Women's Resource Center, Grand Rapids Women's Resource Center of Northern Michigan, Petoskey YWCA, Grand Rapids YWCA, Flint YWCA, Lansing YWCA, Kalamazoo YWCA of Shiawassee County, Owosso WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA Ceridian Corporation, Minneapolis Chrysalis, A Center for Women, Minneapolis Commission on the Economic Status of Women, St. Paul Employers Association, Minneapolis Kooch-Stasia Action Council, Inc., International Falls Lake Superior Area Labor Management Assoc., Inc., Duluth Metropolitan Council-Wastewater Services, Eagan Minnesota Department of Transportation, St. Paul Minnesota Hispanic Education Program, St. Paul Minnesota Women's Consortium, St. Paul Office of Monitoring & Compliance/Equal Ed. Oppor., St. Paul Project SOAR, Duluth Ramsey Action Programs, Inc. Family Service Center, St. Paul St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul Twin City Area Labor Management Council, Minneapolis Women Helping Offenders, Minneapolis Women In The Trades, St. Paul Women Venture, St. Paul Women's Network of the Red River Valley, Moorhead Working Opportunities for Women, St. Paul WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Holly Spring Itawamba Community College, Tupelo Jobs For Mississippi Graduates, Inc., Jackson MS Women Work, Nat'l Network for Women's Employment, Gautier Mathieu Electric, Pascagoula Mississippi A. Philip Randolph Institute, Jackson Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, Jackson Mississippi Delta Community College, Moorhead NAACP Mississippi State Conference, Jackson National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Central Mississippi Chapter, Jackson WELD-FAB, Inc., Biloxi Women In Trades, Jackson WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MISSOURI AFL-CIO-Federation of Support, Grandview Alliance of Professional Organization, Springfield Allied Signal Aerospace Company, Kansas City American Business Women's Association, Kansas City American Heartland Theatre, Kansas City Armstrong Gallery & Studio, Springfield Branson Business Journal, Forsyth Career Focus, Kansas City Central Exchange, Kansas City City of Kansas City, Missouri City of Kansas City, Missouri - Women's Group Colonial Patterns, Inc., Kansas City Communications Publishing Group, Inc., Kansas City Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Poplar Bluff Don Bosco Centers, Kansas City Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Reservation Center, St. Louis Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Kansas City Federal Highway Administration, Kansas City Grandview, MO Federation of Support Personnel, Grandview HHS/Office of Civil Rights, Kansas City Honorable James M. Talent, St. Louis Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, Grain Valley The Job Council of the Ozarks, Springfield Kansas City Urban NOW, Kansas City Kansas City Focus Magazine, Kansas City KKFI Radio, The Women's Shift, Kansas city Labor Management Council of Greater KC, Kansas City Lemay Bank & Trust Company, St. Louis M.J. Harden Associates, Inc., Kansas City Midwest Research Institute, Kansas City Missouri Women's Council, Jefferson City Missouri Women's Network, St. Louis NEWHOUSE, Kansas City National Organization for Women, Kansas City New Perspectives, Maryville The News Leader, Springfield Oak Park Development Corporation, Kansas City Office of Equal Opportunity, St. Louis Project Equality, Inc., Kansas City Saint Louis University, African American Studies Institute SafeHaven of Kansas City, Inc., Kansas City Springfield Community Hospital, Springfield SuperSpeakers, Kansas City Surgicenter of Gladstone-Creekwood Surgery Ctr., Gladstone US Department of Energy-Kansas City Area Office, Kansas City University of Missouri-Kansas City Women's Center, Kansas City Univarsity of Missouri-St. Louis University of Missouri, Rolla Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis, St. Louis West 47th Street Salon & Day Spa, Inc., Kansas City Women Empowered, Kansas City Women's Business Directory, Inc., Kansas City Women's Employment Network, Kansas City YWCA, Kansas city WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF MONTANA Action for Eastern Montana, Glendive Blackfeet Community College, Browning Career Development Program, Miles City Career Futurers, Inc., Butte Career Training Institute, Helena Career Transitions, Bozeman Child Care Resources, Missoula Chippewa-Cree Tribe, Box Elder College of Great Falls, Great Falls District IV Human Resource Development Council, Havre Fort Belknap Community Council, Harlem Fort Peck Community College, Poplar Little Big Horn College, Crow Agency Miles Community College, Miles City Northwest Montana Human Resources, Kalispell Opportunities, Inc., Great Falls Salish and Kootenai College, Pablo Small Business Administration, Helena State Representative Marjorie Cleveland Fisher, White Fish Women's Opportunity Resource Development Center, Missoula Women's Resource Center, Dillon WORD, Inc. YWCA, Billings YWCA, Great Falls WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NEBRASKA Central Nebraska Community Services, Inc., Loup City ConAgra Inc., Omaha Gallup Organization Lincoln-Lancaster Comm on the Status of Women, Lincoln Metropolitan Community College, Omaha NAF Multicultural Human Development Corp., North Platte NE Commission on the Status of Women, Lincoln Nebraska Department of Labor, Lincoln Nebraska Equal Opportunity Commission, Lincoln US Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha USDA Forest Service, Nebraska National Forest, Chadron United Way of the Midlands, Omaha YWCA of Omaha, Omaha WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NEVADA Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), Las Vegas Department of Employment, Training & Rehabilitation, Carson City The Greater Reno Zonta Club, Reno HELP of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas Nevada Department of Education, Carson City Nevada Department of Personnel, Carson City Nevada Hispanic Services, Reno Nevada Women's Fund, Reno State of Nevada, Deptartment of Personnel, Carson City "Y" Women's Opportunity Center, Mt. Laurel WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Advanced Systems Corporate, Dover BlouinBachman, Rollinsford Concord Feminist Health Center, Concord Dartmouth College Women's Resource Center, Hanover Davidson Textron, Dover Franklin Pierce College, Rindge GFS Magnetics Manufacturing Company, Inc., Dover Lee Hecht Harrison Consultants, Manchester New Hampshire Commission on Women, Concord New Hampshire Nurses Association, Concord New Hampshire College, Manchester President's Comm. on the Status of Women at UNH, Durham Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt, Londonberry The Timberland Company, Hampton Women's Resource Center-Nashua YWCA, Nashua YWCA, Nashua WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY Atlantic County Advisory Commission on Women, Pleasantville Bayonne Economic Opportunity Foundation, Bayonne Blue Cross/Blue Shield of New Jersey, Newark CPC International, Englewood Cliffs Camden County Commission on Women, Blackwood Camden Urban Womens Center, Inc., Camden Career Development and Life Counseling Center, Hackensack Children's Services of Morris County, Randolph Comite De Apoyo A Los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA), Glassboro Creation Station, Inc., Avenel Department of Community Affairs NJ Div of Women, Trenton Douglass Advisory Services for Women, New Brunswick Education, Information, and Resource Center, Sewell Federal Executive Board of Northern New Jersey, Newark General Public Utilities Corporation, Parsippany Glenpointe Spa, Teaneck Horizon Health Center, Jersey City Keyes Martin, Springfield Latin American Economic Development Assoc., Inc., Camden Mon. County Advisory Comm on the Status of Women, Freehold National Coalition for Sex Equity, Trenton National Organization for Women-New Jersey State, Trenton New Jersey Department of Education, Trenton New Jersey Department of Human Services, Trenton New Jersey Department of Labor, Trenton New Jersey Department of Transportation, Trenton New Jersey Nurses Union, Livingston North Jersey Office, Office of the Governor, Newark Northern NJ National Organization for Women, Fairlawn Northwest NJ Community Action Program, Inc., Newton Passaic County Committee for Planned Parenthood, Paterson Programs for Parents, Inc., Verona Raritan Traffic Club, Freehold The Resource Center - YWCA of Camden County, Stratford Tri-County Community Action Agency, Rio Grande UAMC Lyons, Lyons United Textile Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Voorhees Women Against Sexual Harassment, Gladstone Women In Non Traditional Occ./So. Jersey Council, Millville YWCA, Camden County YWCA of Essex & W. Hudson, Orange Zonta International, Atlantic City WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Albuquerque Church Women United in Albuquerque, Albuquerque Las Cruces Child Care Resource and Referral, Las Cruces Honorable Jeff Bingaman, Albuquerque NM Mesa, Inc., Albuquerque New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women, Albuquerque New Mexico Federation of Labor, Albuquerque UNH-Women's Studies Program, Durham YWCA Careers Services Center, Albuquerque Youth Development, Inc., Albuquerque WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ACCESS FOR WOMEN/Gaining Access & Women In Tech., Brooklyn Albany Housing Authority, Albany Amalgamated Clothing & Textile Workers Union, New York American Association of University Women, Pittsford American Jewish Congress, New York American Woman's Economic Development Corporation, New York American Women in Radio & Television, New York Aspira Alumni Association, New York The Associated Blind, Inc., New York Association for Union Democracy, Brooklyn Association for Women in Computing (AWC/NYC), New York Avon Products, Inc., New York Beacon Community Health Center, Beacon Bellevue Hospital, New York Benedict Health Center, Ballston Spa The Body Shop Inc., New York Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, Brooklyn Brooklyn Union, Brooklyn Broome County Child Development Council, Inc., Binghamton Business & Professional Women's Club of NY State, Yonkers Capital Cities/ABC Inc., New York Catalyst, New York Center for Immigrants Rights, Inc., New York Center for Women in Government/Univ. at Albany-SUNY, Albany Central Women's Focus, Central Synagogue, New York Child Care Action Campaign, New York Child Care, Inc., New York Childcare and Business, Schenectady Cicatelli Associates, Inc., New York The City Club of New York City Hall of Albany City of Syracuse, Women's Commission Community Family Planning Council, New York Consolidated Edison Company, New York Cornell - ILR/Trade Union Women's Studies Prog., New York Cornell - NYS School of Industry & Labor Relations, Rochester Cornell's Institute for Women and Work, New York Corning Professional Women's Forum, Corning DDB Needham Worldwide, New York Del Laboratories, Farmingdale Department of Business Services, New York City, New York Dime Savings Bank of New York, Union Dale Displaced Homemaker Program, Schenectady Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, New York Essence Magazine, New York Everywoman Opportunity Center, Inc., Buffalo Financial Women's Association of New York, New York Garment Industry Development Corporation, New York Garment Workers' Center in Sunset Park ILGWU, New York Genesee Transportation Council, Rochester Girls Incorporated, New York Hispanic Women's Center, HACER Inc., New York Honorable Maurice D. Hinchey, Ithaca Honorable Nita Lowey, White Plains Honorable Susan Molinari, Staten Island Honorable Louise Slaughter, Rochester Honorable Nydia Velasquez, Brooklyn IATSE, Local H-63, New York ILGWU Local 132-98-102, New York IUE, Local 325, Palmyra Independent Federation or Flight Attendants, New York Int'l Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), New York The Lighthouse, Inc., New York Long Island 9to5, Inc., Hempstead Mega Cities, Inc., New York Mid-Hudson Women's Network, New Windsor Ms. Magazine, New York NY State AFL-CIO, Statewide Labor Coord. Program, Albany NY Statewide Consortium of Councils for Women, Port Ewen NY Women's Foundation, New York NYNEX, White Plains NYS Governor's Office of Employee Relations, Albany NYS Public Employees Federation, Albany Nat'l Assoc of Nine to Five Employees Local 95, Melville National Association for Female Executives (NAFE), New York The National Chamber of Commerce for Women, New York National Employment Law Project, Inc., New York National Organization for Women, New York National Women's Hall of Fame, Senaca Falls Networking Newspaper for Women, Remsenburg NY Daily News, New York New York City Commission on the Status of Women, New York New York City Police Department, New York New York Federal Executive Board, New York New York State Department of Transportation, Albany New York State Division for Women, Albany New York State Job Training Partnership Council, Albany New York State Nurses Association, Guilderland New York Women's Agenda New York Women's Bar Association Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, Syracuse Nontraditional Employment For Women, New York Office of the Public Advocate, New York City Philips Electronics North America Corp., New York Planned Parenthood of Buffalo & Erie County, Inc., Buffalo The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, New York Prodigy Services Co., White Plains Productivity Tools International, New York Public Advocate of the City of New York, New York Puerto Rican Assoc. for Community Affairs, Inc., New York Queens Women's Network, Jamaica Refugee Women Council, New York The Reinsurance Corporation of NY, New York Retail, Wholesale and Dept. Store Union, New York Rural Opportunities, Inc., Rochester Ruth W. Messinger - Manhattan Borough President The Sister Fund, New York Support Center of New York Syracuse Herald Journal, Syracuse TIAA-CREF, New York Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association, New York US Small Business Administration, New York Viacom, New York Victim Services, New York Westchester County Office for Women, White Plains Women Make Movies, Inc., New York Women On The Fast Track, Brooklyn Women and Foundations/Corporate Philanthropy, New York Women and Philanthropy, New York Women in Health Management, New York Women on the Job, Port Washington Women on the Job Task Force, Port Washington Women's Action Alliance, Inc., New York Women's Advisors of NYC, YWCA, New York, Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement, New York Women's City Club of New York Women's Judicial Association of New York City Women's Medical Association of New York City Women's News, Harrison Women's Sports Foundation, East Meadow Women's Studies Certificate Program-CUNY, New York The Workplace Project, Hempstead Working Mother Magazine, New York Working Woman Magazine, New York Writers Guild of America, East, Inc., New York Xerox Corporation, Rochester YWCA of Rochester & Monroe County, Rochester YWCA of Elmira and the Twin Tiers YWCA, Jamestown YWCA of Orange County YWCA of Schenectady YWCA of Troy & Cohoes, Troy YWCA of Ulster County, Kingston YWCA of Western New York, Buffalo YWCA, New York City YWCA of the U.S.A., New York YWCA-Network Project for Young Adults w\Disability, New York Yates County Family Planning Services Inc., Penn Yan Ziffnet/Women Online, New York Lifetime Television, New York WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA Black Workers For Justice, Rocky Mount Buncombe County Child Development, Asheville Charlotte Industry Liaison Group, Charlotte Child Care Networks, Carrboro General Electric Nuclear Energy, Wilmington Glaxo, Inc., Research Triangle Park Greensboro Commission on the Status of Women, Greensboro The Helping Hands Center, Siler City Home Health Agency of Chapel Hill, Inc., Chapel Hill Honorable Eva Clayton, Warrenton The Independent Weekly, Durham NC Department of Labor Bureau for Trng. Initiative, Raleigh NC Equity, Raleigh North Carolina Council for Women, Raleigh Northern Hydraulics, Inc., Charlotte RJ Reynolds, Winston-Salem Sandoz Chemical Corporation, Charlotte Southerners for Economic Justice, Durham Terry-John Enrichment Production, Raleigh Triangle Industry Liaison Group, Research Triangle Park WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA Business & Professional Women of North Dakota, Bottineau Fort Berthold Community College, New Town Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, Bismarck Little Hoop Community College, Ft. Totten MDU Resources Group, Inc., Bismarck Montana - Dakota Utilities Co., Bismarck ND Department of Economic Development & Finance, Bismarck Small Business Administration, Fargo Social Security Administration, Fargo State of North Dakota, Bismarck United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck Women's Business Institute, Fargo Women's Business Leadership Council, Edgeley WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF OHIO 9to5, Cincinnati Working Women, Cincinnati Center on Education and Training for Employment, Columbus The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Communication Workers of America, Local 4309, Cleveland CompuServe, Inc., Colombus Construction Opportunity Center, Toledo DDS Career Search, Inc., Youngstown Dayton Daily News, Dayton District 925, SEIU, Cleveland El Centro de Servicios Sociales, Lorain Hard Hatted Women, Cleveland Hispanic Alcohol & Drug Program, Cleveland Honorable Marcy Kaptur, Toledo Honorable Howard Metzenbaum, Cleveland Honorable Debra Pryce, Columbus Honorable Thomas C. Sawyer, Akron IREP, Inc., Cincinnati International Chemical Workers Union, Akron OCCHA, Youngstown Ohio Department of Education, ONOW Program, Columbus Ohio Women's Policy and Research Commission, Columbus PYRAMID Career Services, Canton Sisters of Charity Health Care Systems, Cincinnati Wilberforce University Cooperative Education Prog., Wilberforce Women's Business Initiative, Columbus Women's Community Foundation, Cleveland Women's Comprehensive Program/Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland Women's Law Fund, Cleveland YWCA Van Wert County, Van Wert YWCA, Canton YWCA, Columbus YWCA, Warren YWCA, Youngstown WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Boss Salon, Oklahoma City Broken Arrow Ledger, Broken Arrow City of Tulsa Human Rights Department, Tulsa Displaced Homemakers Program-Great Plains AVTS, Lawton League of Women Voters of Pontotoc County, Ada Mayor's Commission on the Status of Women, Tulsa New Life Church of God In Christ, Oklahoma City OSU Cooperative Extension S.E. District Office, Ada Oklahoma Public Employees Association, Oklahoma City Scarlette Martin, Oklahoma City WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OREGON Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network, Eugene Hanna Andersson, Portland Honorable Elizabeth Furse, Portland Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Portland Oregon Pioneer Chapter of Coalition of Labor Union Women, Portland Office of the Mayor, Portland Oregon Commission for Women, Portland Oregon Department of Corrections, Salem Oregon State University, Portland Oregon, AFSCME Council 75, Portland Oregonian Tradeswomen Network Portland Public Schools, Portland US West Communications, Eugene University of Oregon - Western Regional Summer Institute for Women, Eugene WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ACTWU, Mt. Morris Association of Bankruptcy Judicial Assistants, Philadelphia Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Commission on the Status of Women-Bloomsburg Univ., Bloomsburg Community Action Program of Lancaster County, Inc., Lancaster Community Legal Services, Philadelphia Family Planning Council of Southeastern PA, Philadelphia G.R. Klinefelter Underwriters, Inc., Ephrata Honorable Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky, Bala Cynwyd Intelligencer/Record, Doylestown LaSalle University School of Nursing, Philadelphia Metropolitan Edison Co., Reading National Association of University Women, Philadelphia PA Commission for Women, Harrisburg The Partnership Group, Lansdale Pennsylvania Young Democrats, Philadelphia The Philadelphia Daily News, Philadelphia Philadelphia Unemployment Project, Philadelphia The Reporter, Lansdale Soroptimist International of the Americas, Philadelphia United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh Valentine Foundation, Bryn Mawr WOMEN'S WAY, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia WOMENews-Pennsylvania Commission For Women, Harrisburg Women's Council of the Community College of Allegheny, Pittsburgh Women's Alliance for Job Equity, Philadelphia WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN PUERTO RICO Asoc de Enfermeria Visitante Gregoria Auffant, Hato Rey Banco Del Comercio De Puerto Rico, San Juan Banco Santander, San Juan Caribbean Business Newspaper, San Juan Casiano Communications, San Juan The Chase Manhattan Bank, NA, San Juan Citibank, NA, San Juan Colegio De Profesionales De La Enfermeria De PR, San Juan Department of Labor and Human Resources of PR, Hato Rey El Dia, San Juan Electro-Biology, Inc., Guaynabo Equa Industries, Mayaguez Fiddler, Gonzalez & Rodriguez, San Juan First Federal Savings Bank, San Juan Gerber Products Company of Puerto Rico, Inc., Carolina MOVA Pharmaceutical Corporation, Caguas Office for Women's Affairs, Municipality of San Juan Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, San Juan Puerto Rico Department of Education, San Juan Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, San Juan Puerto Rico Police Department, San Juan Quality Electroplating, Caguas SB Pharmco P.R., Inc., Cidra San Juan Star, San Juan Schering Plough Products, Inc., Manati Operations, Manati Scotiabank De Puerto Rico, San Juan University de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras University of Puerto Rico, Central Administration, San Juan Vissepo & Vissepo, San Juan Women's Affairs Commission, Old San Juan WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND American Civil Liberties Union-RI, Providence Cesar Studios, Inc., Cranston DARE Direct Action for Rights & Equality, Providence Direction Action for Rights and Equality Hasbro, Inc., Pawtucket Honorable Jack Reed, Warwick Junior League of Rhode Island, Providence League of Women Voters of Rhode Island, Providence Ocean State Action, Cranston Rhode Island Commission on Women, Providence Rhode Island National Organization, West Warwick Rhode Island Working Women, Providence Textron, Providence Working Papers, Providence WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA Carolina Alliance for Fair Employment, Greenville Greater Columbia NOW, Columbia Greenville Urban League, Greenville Kimberly-Clark Corporation (Beech Island), Beech Island South Carolina Commission on Women, Columbia Westinghouse Savannah River Company, Aiken YWCA of The Midlands, Columbia WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Altrusa International Brookings, Aurora Ann Peck Consultants, Sioux Falls Augustana College, Sioux Falls BPW of Sioux Falls Black Hills Regional Eye Institute, Rapid City Burd, Langner and Wieck, Sioux Falls Canfield Business Interiors, Sioux Falls Career Learning Center, Brookings Cheyenne River Community College, Eagle Butte Dakota State University, Madison General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), Brookings Jerry R. Awe, CLU, CHFC, Sioux Falls Klanderud, Montoya, Wuebben & Feehan, Sioux Falls National Women's Political Caucus, Sioux Falls New Horizons Program - CAREER LEARNING CENTER, Brookings Honorable Tom Daschle, Sioux Falls Ogalala Lakota College, Kyle Resource Center for Women, Aberdeen SD Women's Work, Yankton Sioux Printing, Inc., Sioux Falls Sioux Valley Hospital, Sioux Falls Siouxland Heritage Museums, Sioux Falls Sisseton-Wahpeton Community College, Sisseton Skelly's Pub, Sioux Falls Small Business Administration, Sioux Falls South Dakota Assoc of Extension Home Economist, Brookings South Dakota Dept of Education & Cultural Affairs, Pierre South Dakota NARAL, Sioux Falls Stenotype Institute of South Dakota, Sioux Falls Village Inn Pancake House, Sioux Falls Watertown Area Council on the Aging, Watertown Women Against Sexual Harassment, Hudson WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Memphis Equity Office Tennessee Department of Education, Nashville Highlander Research and Education Center, New Market Knoxville Women's Center, Knoxville Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network, Knoxville YWCA - Sarah Brown Branch, Memphis WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS APEX Securities Inc., Dallas Altrusa Club of North Dallas, Dallas American Assoc. of University Women of Lubbock, Lubbock Association for Advancement of Mexican Americans, Houston The Atkins Agency, San Antonio Austin Chapter Nat'l Organization for Women (NOW), Austin Business & Professional Women's Club, Dallas C. Michaels and Associates, Frisco Camp Fire-First Texas Council, Fort Worth Center for Advancement in Education, Dallas Center for Women in Church and Society, San Antonio The Child Care Group, Dallas Dallas/Fort Worth FEB's The Women's Committee, Dallas Dallas Morning News, Dallas Edmund J. Kahn, Dallas El Paso Community College/Diversity Programs, El Paso El Paso Herald Post, El Paso Eubank's Utility Maintenance, Rockwall Family & Consumer Sciences, College Station Fiesta 7 Entertainment, San Antonio Federally Employed Women-Dallas Chapter, Dallas Fobbs Learning Academy, Dallas Fuerza Unida, Inc., San Antonio Governors Commission for Women, Austin Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Greater Houston Women's Foundation, Houston Grissom & Associates, Inc., Austin Hispanic Women's Network of Texas, Dallas Honorable Robert E. Andrews, Houston Houston Area Women's Center, Houston The Houston Post, Houston Image de Tejas, San Antonio International Training in Communication, Irving Keebler Company-Southwest Snack Plant, Haltom City La Mujer Obrera, El Paso Lori Latiolais, Entertainment Department, Fiesta 7, San Antonio Maxus Energy Corporation, Dallas The Mediation Group, Inc., Dallas NIBA (New Image Business Associates), Dallas National Assoc of Minortiy Contractors-Dallas Chap, Dallas National Association of Women in Construction, Ft. Worth Palo Alto College/Returning Adult Center, San Antonio Phone Power, Inc., San Antonio Plano North Metroplex Chapter of the Links, Inc., Plano Political Cong of African-American Women, Dallas Region 14 Education Service Center, Abilene Region VIII Education Service Center, Mt. Pleasant Rice University - Office of Development, Houston St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Grand Prairie Tarrant County Asian American Chamber of Commerce, Fort Worth Telephone Pioneers of America, San Antonio Texas Citizen Action, Fort Worth Texas State Technical College Waco, Waco Today's Dallas Woman Magazine, Dallas Travis County Women Lawyers Association, Austin Turner & Barnes, Houston US Department of Labor Federal Women's Program, Dallas University of North Texas, Denton University of Texas at San Antonio VIA Metropolitan Transit, San Antonio Women's Council of Dallas County, TX, Inc. Women's Enterprise News Magazine, Dallas YWCA of Metropolitan Dallas WORKING WOMEN COUNT PARTNERS IN THE STATE OF UTAH American Women's Society of Certified Public Accountants, Salt Lake City Breast Care Services, Salt Lake City Governor's Commission for Women & Families, Salt Lake City Granger Medical Clinic, West Valley City Holy Cross Hospital, Salt Lake City Honorable Karen Shepherd, Salt Lake City Honorable Robert F. 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