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Join us in making paid leave a reality in PA!
Join us in making paid family leave a reality in Pennsylvania! You might need it because you need time to bond with your new baby. Or because your sister has cancer and no one to care for her. Or because your father had a stroke and needs help recovering. Only 12 percent of United…
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Intern-Views: Heaven Sensky
WGF: How did you get involved with the Women and Girls Foundation? HS: When I was 14, I joined the Women and Girls Foundation’s GirlGov program after spotting a flyer posted in my high school. I attended GirlGov in the summers of 2012 and in 2014. The program changed my life in that it showed me…
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Intern-Views: Miciah Foster
WGF: How did you get involved with the Women and Girls Foundation? MF: It’s a love story really. In high school, my civics teacher pulled me aside, handed me an application, looked me straight in my eyes, and said ‘I think this is something that could be good for you.’ It was an application to…
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Western PA teens selected for GirlGov
The Pittsburgh Edition of the Tribune-Review highlights three members of WGF’s GirlGov program and their recent trip to Harrisburg. About the program, WGF program manager Blayre Holmes said the following: “Some [participants] come with knowledge of the political sphere and some don’t. It adds to the diversity of the group because you don’t have to be…
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100 Teen Women Travel to Harrisburg
100 high school students to shadow state legislators and stand up for comprehensive sex education as part of Women and Girls Foundation’s GirlGov Program. Read the GirlGov 2016 Press Release for more details.
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Women still not sitting in many of region's board seats
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that women hold nearly 17 percent of the board seats at publicly traded companies based in Pittsburgh or which have significant operations in the region. This figure hovers below the national average of 19 percent. “While Heather Arnet, chief executive of the South Side-based Women and Girls Foundation, doesn’t expect the U.S. to…
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Pittsburgh Magazine: Crossroads Conference
Pittsburgh Magazine highlights WGF’s Crossroads Conference in March. See the photo set here: Crossroads Conference.
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Being a Black Woman in Pittsburgh
Ciera Marie Young, a Coro Fellow who organized the Equal Pay Day Rally for the Women and Girls Foundation, writes about being a Black woman in Pittsburgh. Read the opinion piece here: First Person: Being a Black Woman in Pittsburgh
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Personalities of Pittsburgh – Heather Arnet
Pittsburgh Business Times does a personality spotlight on Women and Girls Foundation CEO Heather Arnet. Read the full article here: Personalities of Pittsburgh: Heather Arnet
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Equal Pay Rally
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: “Participants hold up signs Tuesday during the Women and Girls Foundation’s equal pay rally in Market Square, Downtown. Equal Pay Day is commemorated annually, when groups organize nationally to raise awareness of the gender wage gap in the country.”