Economic Security for Women and Families

Being a night owl, I am sometimes up late at night when CSPAN2 shows some really great panel discussions and congressional hearings. On Friday, March 6, a panel discussion sponsored by Legal Momentum aired about how the recession is affecting women and how the working demographic is and has been changing for women and families. It was a great discussion with timely statistics and anecdotal analysis for women and families.

The video clip below shows Representative Jared Polis from Colorado speaking on possible policy changes that will benefit working women and their families.




I highly recommend you go to see the entire panel discussion by pasteing http://www.cspan.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaId=HP-A-16138 into your browser window or go to CSPAN and search for "Legal Momentum".

I was struck by how the place of women in the workforce has become the rule, vital to the stability of our economy. It’s no longer the purview of feminists that women should have the right to work – we now depend on women in the workforce more than ever. But women have less access to benefits, to job and retirement security, and still lack wage parity, earning $0.78 to every dollar a man earns.

Posted by Kate Tinnan, WRC volunteer