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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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Tell Us Something Good We’ve had 60 days of action items, and 40 days left in #our100days. Thank you for sticking with us so

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Healthy Families In December 2016, the D.C. Council approved the nation’s most generous paid family and sick leave legislation, which covers private-sector workers.  On a

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Fashion for All The average American woman wears between a size 16 and 18 in clothing, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at

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Getting to Zero As a nation, we’ve made great strides when it comes to our understanding of HIV and AIDS, thanks to the tireless

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Share Your Story As women, every day can be a constant struggle against oppressive forces that we encounter in our daily lives. We are

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Stop Violence Against Women One in three women suffer physical or sexual violence during their lifetime, and half of female murder victims are killed

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The Book Gap Studies have shown that each child from a middle-income family is likely to have 13 age-appropriate books. In low-income families, however,

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Supporting Casa Ruby This weekend Casa Ruby, a DC-based drop-in center and advocacy organization for transgender women, was vandalized and one of their staff

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Purchasing Power The retail industry is the largest sector of employment in the US.  It’s female dominated in many ways; 73% of all retail

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Inequality in Art Can you name five male artists? You probably can do this easily – Da Vinci, Picasso, Van Gogh, Pollock, Degas, and