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You're Invited to our 35th Birthday Party
Join us on September 18 as we celebrate 35 years of opening doors, crashing ceilings, and creating fairer workplaces for women.
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Attend Town Hall Meetings to Help Enact Paid Sick Days
Nearly 2.5 million Illinois workers could accrue paid sick time under the Healthy Workplace Act (HB 5320), which was recently introduced in the Illinois legislature. >> Learn more and urge your legislators to support the bill.

Take the Pledge
In honor of our 35th anniversary, we’re sharing 35 ways you can make life better for working women. Whether you do one, ten, or every item, we ask that you tell us what you did. >> I did it.

We're 35 in 2008!
Women Employed is celebrating 35 years of changing the workplace for women. >> Watch our anniversary video and celebrate our milestone.

Women Employed Featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
The national public affairs program features our work to build awareness about the problem of low-wage work and win changes in public policies and corporate practices. >> Watch the segment.


WE Releases Career Curriculum for Adult Students
Strategies for Success in Career Development gives colleges, community organizations, and workforce agencies a tool to help adult learners, first-time college students, and job-seekers find and develop a great career. >> Download it for free today.

WE's 2008 Legislative Agenda
In our 35th anniversary year, Women Employed continues to lead the way toward economic security, fairness, and opportunity. >> Read our 2008 Legislative Agenda.

Mobilizing Women Leaders 
Working Women for Change is a Women Employed initiative that brings together women in business and civic leadership to address the problems facing women earning low wages. >>Get the facts.


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