UN Women, March 18, 2023 New York City — The 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67)— the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality, the empowerment of all women and girls and their human rights—successfully closed its two-week long session [...]
ERA Press Release
Written Testimony from the Zonta USA Caucus Submitted by Bobbee Cardillo, Convener For the Record to Senate Committee on the Judiciary for [...]
Advocacy Equal Pay USA Women at work
The USA Caucus of Zonta International, representing over 8000 members in the US, has issued the following statement in conjunction with Equal [...]
Equal Pay USA Women at work
Pew Research Updates Study on the Persistent Gender Pay Gap after 20 years "The gender pay gap – the difference between the earnings [...]
AAUW researched the pay gap for Women state by state, and profiled the state laws that promote pay equality. Explore more: THE [...]
Leadership + Government Women at work
Women professionals in higher ed are large in number yet small in leadership roles. Although women make up the majority of higher ed [...]
ERA
The Court of Appeals ruled yesterday on State of Virginia, Illinois and Nevada Lawsuit to recognize their ratifications of the ERA. Columbia [...]
Advocacy
2022 US Pay Gap for Women 83 cents. [...]
Have you discovered CAWP? Your best, comprehensive, non partisan resourceful information about Women in US politics. Use their database to identify participation [...]
Violence Against Women
Build your club service and advocacy project using US based Project Sheets. Three of these sheets are new (REDress, Red Sand, What [...]
A majority of Democrats and Republicans – whether they identify as feminists or not – say it is very important for women [...]
End-Child Marriage
The Tahirih Justice Center has released two new reports that underscore the urgent need to take action against child marriage in the [...]
CSPAN Education Clips: Shareable at a Zonta Club Meeting: 4 short videos about the Gender pay gap in 2022: Several United States [...]
Advocacy Violence Against Women
The Intersection of Technology with Violence Against Women and Girls CSW 67 Gender and Technology Brief Susan Hagood Lee Additional Resource: [...]
NNEDV on National Action plan to End gender based violence: https://ncai.org/Gender_Based_Violence_National_Action_Plan.pdf While the Violence Against Women Act, Family Violence Prevention and Services [...]
UN - CSW Z and Golden Z
Pamela Morgan – Zonta’s UN Committee Chair met with the USA Caucus on Jan 5th. Zonta Will be engaging in CSW, and [...]
Read at: https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2093&context=lawreview ” The flip side of the coin to this law is that there are negatives to the Texas approach. [...]
Advocacy Women at work
Statement from President Joe Biden on Passage of the Bipartisan Year-End OmnibusThe bipartisan funding bill advances key priorities for our country and [...]
Advocacy ERA Reproductive
A new Ms. magazine and Feminist Majority Foundation poll by Lake Research Partners across nine battleground states* finds that among young women [...]
Advocacy Climate Change
Step up your sustainability quotient WE all know the common R’s of Sustainability: Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. Today you can add another 4Rs [...]
Zonta Needs YOU to take ACTION, Women and Girls in the USA Need YOU! Engage in FAST ACTION FRIDAYS DESKTOP: REGISTER AND [...]
Leadership + Government
Get informed about women running for office. Then check to make sure that they support policies that support building a better world [...]
Advocacy CEDAW Cities for CEDAW
City actions, including Cities for CEDAW https://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/human-rights-institute/gender_equity_through_human_rights_for_publication.pdf Recommended Considerations Government actors and advocates with experience using human rights in local governance have [...]
Bulletins
Want to know what’s happening in the ZontaUSA Caucus? Therese Hartwell of Zonta District 10 is compiling a very clear, short summary [...]
Advocacy ERA
10-22 ERA Resources by ZontaUSA Katherine Cleland participated in the PowHerNY2022 discussion on the ERA hosted by the Zonta Club of Brooklyn. [...]
Advocacy Violence Against Women Zonta Says No!
Announcing the Zonta Says NO to Violence Against Women Toolkit has been updated for the 2022 campaign and has been posted to [...]
On September 28th, the federal appellate court for the District of Columbia (the most prestigious federal court in the country) held oral [...]
Columbia Law School ERA Project and In collaboration with the @BrennanCenter and @MsMagazine published a State ERA Tracker, which summarizes the current [...]
From President Joe Biden: (highlights are our own) Reproductive Rights ERA Voting rights Ending Gender Based Violence A Proclamation on Women’s Equality [...]
CEDAW Cities for CEDAW
CEDAW and Abortion Rights [...]
The IRA, combined with greater federal executive action and continued leadership from state and local governments, could put the U.S. on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
