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Vision 2020 Missouri
I was very honored to be selected as a delegate to Vision 2020. Two
delegates from each state were selected, and asked to lead a project to
help achieve the goal of equality by 2020. At the first conference in
Philadelphia in 2010, we learned that across the board, women are stalled
at about 18% when it comes to senior positions in business, arts,
government, or education. The White House Project has an excellent
research report that will open your eyes:
thewhitehouseproject.org/documents/Report.pdf
When I applied as a delegate, I said I was interested in money and power.
I'm taking on a project that addresses the money part of the equation,
with a project to support women entrepreneurs in Missouri. A core part
of the project is to encourage women to use the power of their purses to
support women-owned businesses when we buy goods or services. If
you would be interested in serving as an adviser or working on the project
in any capacity, please contact me.
I wanted to extend special thanks to the board of the Missouri State
Women's Political Caucus for agreeing to be a partner in Vision 2020. I
look forward to working with all of you on this exciting national effort.
Rebecca Richardson
rr@axisarchkc.com
816 444-4360
delegates from each state were selected, and asked to lead a project to
help achieve the goal of equality by 2020. At the first conference in
Philadelphia in 2010, we learned that across the board, women are stalled
at about 18% when it comes to senior positions in business, arts,
government, or education. The White House Project has an excellent
research report that will open your eyes:
thewhitehouseproject.org/documents/Report.pdf
When I applied as a delegate, I said I was interested in money and power.
I'm taking on a project that addresses the money part of the equation,
with a project to support women entrepreneurs in Missouri. A core part
of the project is to encourage women to use the power of their purses to
support women-owned businesses when we buy goods or services. If
you would be interested in serving as an adviser or working on the project
in any capacity, please contact me.
I wanted to extend special thanks to the board of the Missouri State
Women's Political Caucus for agreeing to be a partner in Vision 2020. I
look forward to working with all of you on this exciting national effort.
Rebecca Richardson
rr@axisarchkc.com
816 444-4360
| MO WPC officer, Rebecca Richardson, has been selected as one of two delegates from Missouri to attend the first congress of national delegates. |
National Goals
Vision 2020 is a national
initiative developed by the
Institute for Women’s Health
and Leadership at Drexel
University College of Medicine to
make equality a national priority
through the shared leadership
among women and men. These
goals are the result of the
October Congress that
convened in Philadelphia on
October 21-22, 2010.
Vision 2020’s Campaign for
Equality will work to achieve the
following five goals by the year
2020, when the centennial of
women’s right to vote is
celebrated:
• Achieve pay equity, so that
equal pay for equal work will be
the norm in the United States.
• Increase the number of
women in senior leadership
positions in American life to
reflect the workforce talent pool
and demographics.
• Educate employers about the
value of policies and practices
that enable men and women to
share fairly their family
responsibilities.
• Educate new generations of
girls and boys to respect their
differences and to act on the
belief that the nation is at its
best when leadership is shared
and opportunities are open to all.
• Mobilize women to vote, with
particular emphasis on a record-
setting turnout in 2020, the
centennial of the 19th
Amendment.
Vision 2020 is a national
initiative developed by the
Institute for Women’s Health
and Leadership at Drexel
University College of Medicine to
make equality a national priority
through the shared leadership
among women and men. These
goals are the result of the
October Congress that
convened in Philadelphia on
October 21-22, 2010.
Vision 2020’s Campaign for
Equality will work to achieve the
following five goals by the year
2020, when the centennial of
women’s right to vote is
celebrated:
• Achieve pay equity, so that
equal pay for equal work will be
the norm in the United States.
• Increase the number of
women in senior leadership
positions in American life to
reflect the workforce talent pool
and demographics.
• Educate employers about the
value of policies and practices
that enable men and women to
share fairly their family
responsibilities.
• Educate new generations of
girls and boys to respect their
differences and to act on the
belief that the nation is at its
best when leadership is shared
and opportunities are open to all.
• Mobilize women to vote, with
particular emphasis on a record-
setting turnout in 2020, the
centennial of the 19th
Amendment.
August 25, 2011
On August 26, 1920 - 91 years ago tomorrow -- women's right-to-vote
became law with ratification of the 19th amendment. Unfortunately,
"Equality Day" is tucked away in the caboose of the August calendar,
diminishing its chances of competing for attention with vacations and
back-to-school sales.
And have we actually achieved equality? When the sun goes down today,
the distance between men's and women's access to significant
decision-making will remain. The gap continues. We're talking Grand
Canyon dimensions here.
Vision 2020 has given itself 3000 days to do something about that.
Vision 2020 is a nationwide assembly of women---and men---who believe
that it's just solid sense for men and women to begin sharing leadership
in all parts of American life, so that an unprecedented dimension of
positive change can emerge.
With its eye on the Year 2020-- the centennial of women's suffrage, Vision
2020 is working with women and men in all 50 states to play catch-up in
areas of equality that have been glaringly neglected.
We seek no rivalry with men, only cooperation; no political edge in
Washington, only participation; no retreat from obligation, only a fair shot
at opportunity.
In October, 2010, Vision 2020 kicked off in Philadelphia with delegates
from 50 states who collectively identified five national goals. Consider the
first goal: Achieve pay equity, so that equal pay for equal work will be the
norm in America.
Women of a certain age nod wryly when hearing "equal pay for equal
work" because for years, it has been well-documented that women earn
77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. But their daughters and
granddaughters are furious.
"I found out that we make roughly a little more than three-quarters of
what men make! And the more successful we become, the higher we
rise, the more the gap widens," writes Caitlin, a college senior who
interned with Vision 2020. "It is almost as if we are being punished for
success."
The second goal is Increase the number of women in senior leadership
positions in American life to reflect the workforce talent pool and
demographics. Kari, another intern who'll join the workforce next spring,
writes: "There are 29 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that are all
male in their company's decision-making roles. There are no women on
their board of directors, as well as no women among the top five
highest-paid officers. This statistic was so shocking to me."
You can hear the outrage. Vision 2020 is an opportunity to combine the
younger generation's righteous energy and older generations' experience
to make these 5 goals -- pay equality, shared leadership, workplace
fairness, educational balance and voter mobilization -- a reality. It can
happen - at the grassroots level, in the board room, and in the voting
booth. Our 2011 convention will be Oct. 11-13 in Chicago, IL, the state that
first ratified the 19th amendment.
What can you do? Get involved. Go to drexel.edu/vision2020. Sign up as a
member for $20.20. Sign the Declaration of Equality. The suffrage
heroines -- Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Julia
Ward Howe, and thousands more - made 1920 possible. Add your name to
the initiative to fulfill their vision in 2020.
By Lynn Yeakel
Founder and Co-Chair, Vision 2020
Director and Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women's Health
The Institute for Women's Health and Leadership
Drexel University College of Medicine
On August 26, 1920 - 91 years ago tomorrow -- women's right-to-vote
became law with ratification of the 19th amendment. Unfortunately,
"Equality Day" is tucked away in the caboose of the August calendar,
diminishing its chances of competing for attention with vacations and
back-to-school sales.
And have we actually achieved equality? When the sun goes down today,
the distance between men's and women's access to significant
decision-making will remain. The gap continues. We're talking Grand
Canyon dimensions here.
Vision 2020 has given itself 3000 days to do something about that.
Vision 2020 is a nationwide assembly of women---and men---who believe
that it's just solid sense for men and women to begin sharing leadership
in all parts of American life, so that an unprecedented dimension of
positive change can emerge.
With its eye on the Year 2020-- the centennial of women's suffrage, Vision
2020 is working with women and men in all 50 states to play catch-up in
areas of equality that have been glaringly neglected.
We seek no rivalry with men, only cooperation; no political edge in
Washington, only participation; no retreat from obligation, only a fair shot
at opportunity.
In October, 2010, Vision 2020 kicked off in Philadelphia with delegates
from 50 states who collectively identified five national goals. Consider the
first goal: Achieve pay equity, so that equal pay for equal work will be the
norm in America.
Women of a certain age nod wryly when hearing "equal pay for equal
work" because for years, it has been well-documented that women earn
77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. But their daughters and
granddaughters are furious.
"I found out that we make roughly a little more than three-quarters of
what men make! And the more successful we become, the higher we
rise, the more the gap widens," writes Caitlin, a college senior who
interned with Vision 2020. "It is almost as if we are being punished for
success."
The second goal is Increase the number of women in senior leadership
positions in American life to reflect the workforce talent pool and
demographics. Kari, another intern who'll join the workforce next spring,
writes: "There are 29 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 that are all
male in their company's decision-making roles. There are no women on
their board of directors, as well as no women among the top five
highest-paid officers. This statistic was so shocking to me."
You can hear the outrage. Vision 2020 is an opportunity to combine the
younger generation's righteous energy and older generations' experience
to make these 5 goals -- pay equality, shared leadership, workplace
fairness, educational balance and voter mobilization -- a reality. It can
happen - at the grassroots level, in the board room, and in the voting
booth. Our 2011 convention will be Oct. 11-13 in Chicago, IL, the state that
first ratified the 19th amendment.
What can you do? Get involved. Go to drexel.edu/vision2020. Sign up as a
member for $20.20. Sign the Declaration of Equality. The suffrage
heroines -- Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Julia
Ward Howe, and thousands more - made 1920 possible. Add your name to
the initiative to fulfill their vision in 2020.
By Lynn Yeakel
Founder and Co-Chair, Vision 2020
Director and Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women's Health
The Institute for Women's Health and Leadership
Drexel University College of Medicine
Letter from Lynn Yeakel, Vision 2020
Founder and Co-Chair
Founder and Co-Chair
Vision 2020 Web Site
http://drexel.edu/vision2020
The White House Project
http://www.thewhitehouseproj
ect.org/
"Benchmarking Women's
Leadership" Report
AAUW's
Woman-to-Woman Voter
Turnout Project
http://www.aauw.org/act/issue
_advocacy/voter_ed/Womanto
Woman.cfm
http://drexel.edu/vision2020
The White House Project
http://www.thewhitehouseproj
ect.org/
"Benchmarking Women's
Leadership" Report
AAUW's
Woman-to-Woman Voter
Turnout Project
http://www.aauw.org/act/issue
_advocacy/voter_ed/Womanto
Woman.cfm
Vision 2020 Links
and Resources
and Resources
Save the Date:
Equal Pay Lobby
Day April 17th, 2012
Jefferson City, MO
How Big of a Bite is Missing
from Your Pay Check?
Equal Pay Lobby
Day April 17th, 2012
Jefferson City, MO
How Big of a Bite is Missing
from Your Pay Check?