The Tahirih Justice Center has released two new reports that underscore the urgent need to take action against child marriage in the United States. These reports reveal alarming new data and call for long overdue legislative action at the state and federal levels to [...]
Equal Pay USA Women at work
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: [...]
Advocacy
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 [...]
End-Child Marriage
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
