1. N.C. COUNCIL FOR WOMEN PROGRESS, EMPOWERMENT AND EQUALITY UN WOMEN 2011 NATIONAL CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JILL DINWIDDIE

2. “The week of January 8 th, we saw….” - PBS Reporter, Mark Shields THE YEAR BEGAN LIKE THIS...

3. GROWING DIVERSITY IN 2009 2% Asian or Pacific Islander 21% African American 8% Hispanic or Latino 1% Native American and Alaska Native SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau Today, minorities comprise over 30% of N.C.’s growing total population.

4. KEY ISSUES

5. = FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE

6. The SEWA Project is an organization and movement dedicated to organizing full employment for women through out India. TOTAL MEMBERSHIP IN INDIA 1972 2009 3721,256,944 SOURCE: SEWA.org

7. THE WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION IN THE LABOR FORCE

8. MIKA BREZINSKI

9. “The poverty rate for single women and children has been significantly higher than the overall poverty rate since the 1960s.” SOURCE: Kate Stanworth

10. HEALTHCARE Go Red for Women is a movement working to raise awareness about heart disease. Today, heart disease is the number one cause of death in women.

11. PLANNED PARENTHOOD For over 90 years, Planned Parenthood has worked to both assist and promote the importance of women’s reproductive and general health.

12. PLANNED PARENTHOOD Teens Taking Action is an educational program motivating teens to make informed decisions about sexuality and relationships.

13. CHILD CARE Families with an employed mother and children under the age of 15 pay at least $6,000 a year for child care. SOURCE: Census.gov

14. CHILDCARE POVERTY LINE Those above the poverty line spent about 7% of their income on childcare. Those below the poverty line spent about 29% of their income on childcare. SOURCE: Census.gov, 2005

15. TRANSPORTATION “During a month of poverty and toil, no one recognizes my face or my name, which goes unnoticed and for the most part unuttered. In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am ‘baby,’ ‘honey,’ ‘blondie,’ and, most commonly, ‘girl’.”

16. “Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women, more than car accidents, mugging, or rapes combined.” SOURCE: DomesticViolenceStatistics.org IMAGE FROM DISNEY

17. FREE AT LAST! Turning Point is a domestic violence program in Monroe, N.C., helping women break away from abusive relationships.

18. NATIONAL NETWORK NEARLY 833 CALLS PER HOUR

19. INCREASED DEMANDS Economic Instability = Greater Demand

20. Albemarle Hopeline’s thrift store is another service that the program offers to the rest of the community. SOURCE: GoGreenTravelGreen.org

21. Men Stopping Violence Team SOURCE: MSV Facebook

22. SOURCE: FoundingFathers.org

23. MEN CAN STOP RAPE A comic-book strip that started on the organization website in 2002, promoting women’s safety and preventing violence against women. SOURCE: MenCanStopRape.org

24. A CALL TO MEN “This fear… has us paralyzed, holding us hostage, this man box.” –Tony Porter An organization working to redefine gender roles and inspire men to reconsider the way they treat and think about women.

26. SOURCE: Interact of Wake County Facebook

27. Established by two students from UNC-Chapel Hill, Kiran currently resides in Raleigh. SOURCE: KiranInc.Org

28. AMERICAN INDIAN OUTREACH SOURCE: PaganMedia.WordPress.Com

29. WOMEN’S SAFETY 1/3 of female homicide victims are killed by an intimate partner. 500 rapes and sexual assaults are committed daily. 1 in every 4 women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime. SOURCE: Coalition Against Domestic Violence

30. Awareness campaign STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PUBLIC-AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

31. N.C. Governor Perdue

32. MILLICENT FENWICK

33. “I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.” MILLICENT FENWICK SOURCE: themarcsteinershow.wordpress.com

34. Global Leadership Empowering the Generations SOURCE: TeachingVillage.org