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In the Washington metropolitan region, nearly half a million women and girls are living in or near poverty. We all have a stake in building the economic security of our region’s women and girls. The Women’s Foundation works to mobilize our community and provide solutions to eliminate the persistent barriers that disproportionately hinder women and girls from achieving economic security.

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Get Out and Vote You’re probably used to seeing those words around November every two or four years, but it’s important to understand which local elections

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Equal Pay Day Equal Pay Day symbolizes on average how far into the new year women in the United States have to work to

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Got Liquid Assets? April is Financial Literacy Month. Did you know that according to CFED nearly half of households in the U.S. do not

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Career Pathways for Early Educators New regulations in DC will require certain early care professionals to obtain college degrees by 2020 in an effort

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Gender Equity Achieved! Today, women across the country can celebrate achieving parity with their male counterparts in all key data indicators and in all

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Celebrate Her-story While today technically marks the end of Women’s History Month, every day, we must constantly remind ourselves of those who came before

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It’s On Us One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college. The It’s On Us campaign is working to end

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March Madness: Get Mad for Equal Pay While most people are focused on their busted March Madness brackets as we head into the Final

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Shorten the Road to Equal Pay According to a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), if the earnings of men

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Find Our Girls Last week, media coverage spiked regarding the number of girls of color who have gone missing in DC recently after #MissingDCGirls