CPA Women’s Program Unveils 1998 Policy Briefing Book

To promote policies that answer the needs of women, families and communities, CPA has released the 1998 Women & the Economy Policy Briefing Book, a step-by-step issue resource guide to CPA’s Economic Agenda for America: Women’s Voices for Solutions. The Briefing Book, released by CPA’s Women & the Economy Program, is a comprehensive package of policy briefs, model legislation, relevant facts and resource contacts on issues of vital importance to communities and families.

The Economic Agenda for America builds on the issue areas of family and work, health and security, economic self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship — issue areas defined by CPA’s 1996 Women’s Voices for a New Economy survey and refined by participants at CPA’s Women’s Economic Leadership Summit at the White House last April. A few of the resources included in the briefing book are: model legislation on the prohibition of insurance discrimi
nation based on genetic testing and domestic violence, background on alternative work schedules, a list of child care bills pending in Congress and information on establishing state family and individual development accounts.

For this project, CPA has partnered with women elected officials and grassroots leaders from across the U.S. to construct an agenda built on proactive policy solutions that meet the needs of women, families and communities.

Copies of the Women’s Voices for Solutions Policy Briefing Book are available for $25. To order, call Anne Mosle, Director of the Women and the Economy Program, at CPA, or email [email protected].