It isn't often that a family funeral is also a source of hope, but that is exactly what it represented for one California woman. While searching for a way to escape her violent and controlling husband, she found opportunity in an out-of-state family funeral.
Approximately 2.3 million women in California are 65 years old or over. Another 3.3 million California women are between the ages of 50 and 65. These women, born before or during the baby boom, represent 15 percent of California’s population and potentially face health issues associated with aging.
Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America’s innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated workforce. That leaves an untapped opportunity to expand STEM employment in the United States, even as there is wide agreement that the nation must do more to improve its competitiveness.
This Report reveals that women and girls in California continue to be disadvantaged than men in important areas — from education and earnings to political representation. While women earn more college degrees than men, they are far outpaced in the highest-paying fields. Within the majority of professions, women on average earn less and fewer women than men reach the top leadership positions. Single women with children are more likely than men to struggle in poverty, especially women of color.
2013 Priority and Endorsed Bills
*Priority and Endorsed bills received at least 55% support from the Legisaltive Womens' Caucus. Legislative support is not necessarily reflective of the views of all individual Members of the Legislative Women's Caucus.*
LIST OF PRIORITY BILLS
AB 154 (Atkins) Women’s Health Priority
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SACRAMENTO, CA -- Today, the California State Auditor released a report on the issue of coerced sterilizations in women’s state prisons, Sterilization of Female Inmates. The audit was requested last summer by members of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus.
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SACRAMENTO – The California Legislative Women’s Caucus will celebrate Women’s History Month today by honoring women from around the state in the Assembly chambers. Each Assemblymember in all 80 districts will honor a woman who has contributed greatly to her community.