Columbia Law School ERA Project and In collaboration with the @BrennanCenter and @MsMagazine published a State ERA Tracker, which summarizes the current status of state ERAs and serves as a starting point for our work on developing model policy agendas for state level executives [...]
Advocacy ERA Reproductive
From President Joe Biden: (highlights are our own) Reproductive Rights ERA Voting rights Ending Gender Based Violence A Proclamation on Women’s Equality [...]
Advocacy Climate Change
The IRA, combined with greater federal executive action and continued leadership from state and local governments, could put the U.S. on the [...]
Advocacy ERA
From the ERA Coalition: Updates from Congress (House and Senate) and the States House Resolution 891, which expresses the sense of [...]
Womens Health
Period Poverty is the lack of access to feminine hygiene or period products. This is a real issue in the USA, not [...]
What we know about Period Poverty in the USA At a glance some period poverty facts from the US only: 500 million [...]
Equal Pay USA Women at work
Forbes: On the 59th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, this piece thoughtfully examines how far we still have to go to [...]
Conference Operations
Zonta International Convention 2022 Report An excellent summary of convention by District 1. Well organized with summary sections! https://convention2022.zontadistrict1.org/ The Zonta International [...]
Reproductive Womens Health
Zonta International is an organization pledged to improve the health status of women. [...]
Title IX
Biden Administration’s proposed rule would provide much-needed changes for student survivors. Some examples: Require schools to respond to all complaints of gender [...]
“Zonta International Statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade News of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn [...]
UN - CSW
What did the Forum Deliver? Advocacy with Member States This year, our advocacy with Member States was a particularly strong point of [...]
Attorney Michele Thorne in her article in the Chicago Bar Association’s latest issue: A New Era for the ERA? Our 28th Amendment [...]
Advocacy Women at work
New IWPR Survey Shows Wide Gaps Between What Working Women Want from Employers and What Employers Offer in Terms of Wages, Leave, [...]
Last-Minute Bid to Save Right to Abortion Comes via ERA Lawsuits Cases ask courts to affirm Equal Rights Amendment Status Contested Bloomberg [...]
Advocacy ERA Reproductive Womens Health
Statement on Draft SCOTUS Decision Leaked, Overturning Roe v. Wade May 2022 The Zonta USA Caucus is deeply disturbed by the [...]
UW study may have the answer “There is widespread knowledge that women are underrepresented in STEM, but people tend to lump STEM [...]
The Zonta Says NOW Think Tank consists of Zontians who are interested in progressing gender equality and climate action. Think Tank members [...]
Advocacy Climate Change ERA
Questions, questions! (Carole Theobald District 23 Futurist/Leadership Coordinator) This federal election is our opportunity to ask questions of candidates on what steps [...]
Climate Change
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Reduce has the highest impact, especially items that take a long time to decompose (return to the earth), [...]
The District 8 Climate Team recommends Drawdown for complete information on solutions to climate change. https://drawdown.org/ * Gigatons CO2 Equivalent Reduced [...]
Climate Change Women at work
Meet the US Women Leading and Shaping the Solar Industry “According to the U.S. Solar Industry Diversity Study, women represented only 26% [...]
Advocacy Ukraine Violence Against Women
Chairman Menendez Urges UN to Prioritize the Needs of Ukrainian Women and Girls and Address Rising Concerns of Widespread Sexual Violence Please [...]
Women at work
In Resilient But Not Recovered: After Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis, Women Are Still Struggling, NWLC combines analysis of federal data [...]
Advocacy Bulletins
Zonta USA April -2022 Advocacy Bulletin Want to know what’s happening in the ZontaUSA Caucus? Therese Hartwell of Zonta District 10 is [...]
Child Marriage
Child Marriage in the United States and Its Association With Mental Health in Women WHAT’S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: The prevalence of childmarriage [...]
Trafficking Violence Against Women
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Advocacy
Best way to Support Pay Equality on #EqualPayDay (March 15, 2022) 1. Support the ERA… Message your Senator to remove the deadline: [...]
Zonta USA March -2022 Advocacy Bulletin Want to know what’s happening in the ZontaUSA Caucus? Therese Hartwell of Zonta District 10 is [...]
Climate Change UN - CSW
Zonta Says NOW to Gender Equality and Climate Action will be part of the CSW66 Online Forum Using tools from the Zonta [...]
ERA
The Courts, or Congress?? ERA Coalition Amicus brief argues, the courts, without removing any of the authority of congress: Hearing expected later [...]
“Right until age 8, there’s really no difference [between girls and boys] in confidence levels,” says author Claire Shipman. “We were surprised [...]
Oriana Gonzalez Sums up the tremendous activity this past week on the 2nd anniversary of the ERA ratification by Virginia: https://www.axios.com/maloney-speier-era-gender-equality-constitution-9fb88df8-c22b-4fda-805b-0c4378aa856a.html [...]
Advocacy Violence Against Women Z and Golden Z Zonta Says No!
Teen dating violence is common. Nearly 1 in 11 female and approximately 1 in 14 male high school students report having experienced [...]
Advocacy Child Marriage
We’ve been asked why Zonta USA Caucus is standing behind Age 18, No Exceptions. Fraidy Reiss, Unchained at Last articulates the [...]
Opposition to Emancipated Minors Authorization to Marry – Unchained At Last We urge you to disregard these baseless claims and consider the [...]
