Are you interested in working to make this year's Unity Breakfast, taking place Saturday, June 8, at The Woman's Club of Raleigh, a success and memorable. Let's make this 50th Anniversary something they're still talking about at the 75th one!
Legislative Democrats held a news conference Monday to call for North Carolina to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a 1972 constitutional amendment on equal rights for women. North Carolina was among 15 states that didn’t ratify the amendment in the 1970s after it passed Congress, and because it needed 38 states to be added to the U.S. Constitution, the amendment failed. Bills filed in both the House and Senate this year would give the legislature a chance to ratify the amendment. Democrats argue that the amendment would address issues like equal pay for women. Read More Here: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article141072973.html
Register today to join DWWC as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Unity Breakfast on June 8th! Sponsorships are available. The first Unity Breakfast featured a fashion show, and we will give a nod to those founding sisters with our own version of a fashion show. But this will be like no other fashion show you have seen. Our surprise models are being asked to wear something that they feel powerful in. You won't want to miss it! Please be sure to share our event on social media and on email so that your friends will know to get signed up to join you!
Executive Order No. 93 Bans Use of Salary History in State Government Hiring To help address the gender pay gap for women workers in North Carolina, Governor Roy Cooper today signed Executive Order No. 93. The order directs state government agencies to ban the use of salary history in the hiring process. “Women have strengthened our state and our country for generations, but an unfair wage gap continues to hurt women workers—especially women of color,” Gov. Cooper said. “This Equal Pay Day, my administration is taking action to address the gender pay gap among state workers.”
In North Carolina women make up more than 54% of registered voters yet hold less than 25% of elected and appointed offices. Democratic Women of Wake County is working to change this through voter education, direct support of candidates and fundraising.
Together we encourage women to seek public office. Together we make a difference.