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No place for women: PA County Jails
WGF grantee in the news! The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette applauds a recently released report by 2011 WGF grantee, the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, on the reproductive health care needs of incarcerated women. WGF has been a leader in investing in advocacy efforts to ensure that incarcerated women have access to full, fair, and comrehensive reproductive…
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WGF's Response to PG's Top 12 Influential 'People'
On Sunday, January 1st, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published its list of “Top 12 Influential People in Business” of 2011. We thought this list had some omissions – specifically, it contained NO women or people of color. Click here to read the letter to the editor that the PG published in response by WGF’s CEO Heather…
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Climate Change's Impact on Women Globally
On the heels of multiple attacks on family planning efforts in the Unites States, WGF’s CEO Heather Arnet and the CEO of Population Action International, Suzanne Ehlers, write an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette articulating the impact climate change is having on women globally. We must start thinking about our moral responsibility to extend…
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WGF CEO on PCNC "NightTalk"
Heather Arnet on PCNC live Friday, Oct. 28, 2011 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM on “NightTalk: Get to the Point” Host: P.J. Maloney, KQV Newsradio Invited Panelists: Nick Kotik ( D ), PA State Representative, District 45 Heather Arnet, CEO, Women and Girls Foundation Dawn Meling, Commonwealth Foundation The program is telecast LIVE on Friday, 10/28 from…
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High School Girls Learn the Ropes in Harrisburg
Essential Public Radio 10/19/2011 Southwestern Pennsylvania High School Girls Learn the Ropes in Harrisburg BY 100 girls from Allegheny, Washington, Green, and Fayette counties spent Tuesday at the state capitol, shadowing lawmakers from their home districts. It’s part of the second annual GirlGov effort aimed at attracting more Pennsylvania women to … … and a…
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High school girls get a look at how state government works
Pittsburgh Tribune Review 10/19/2011 High school girls get a look at how state government works BY One hundred high school students from the region spent Tuesday with 50 state legislators as part of the Women and Girls Foundation’s GirlGov program. The South Side-based foundation started the program in 2009 to give local teens a chance…
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M.J. Tocci Wins Athena Award
Essential Public Radio 9/20/2011 Negotiation Advocate Wins Athena Award BY Attendance for the Athena Award Luncheon was at a record high Monday as two outstanding female leaders in the Pittsburgh community were honored. Barbara McNees, President of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, said this is Pittsburgh’s 21st … … everyone in their lives but…
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Heather Arnet on TV Women and ‘Mad Men’
After being asked her opinion on how current dramas reflect on women, Arnet offered that Grey’s Anatomy has complex and non-stereotypical representations of women in the workplace who are all different from one another. … Arnet also thinks Mad Men has done brilliant and honest work on gender politics. Instead of romanticizing the sexism of the 1950s and 1960s, the…
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Senate Bill being called dangerous to women's health and rights
See WGF grantee New Voices Pittsburgh at the “We’ve Had Enough Rally” on CBS News 21 Senate Bill being called dangerous to women’s health and rights
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PA redistricting panel urged to consider gender
A panel charged with redrawing Pennsylvania’s legislative map was urged at a public hearing Wednesday to consider the impact of its revisions on the number of women serving in the state Capitol.