• Issues Management Resource Guide
  
  Chapter Four
  THE WOMENomics PROGRAM
  
  The WOMENomics Program, developed by the BPW Foundation, is a grassroots program designed to bring together local business, government, educational institutions and civic organizations in the community to identify, act on, and resolve the everyday issues that challenge workingwomen. WOMENomics is an opportunity to build a better future for workingwomen in every community. What does this mean to Issues Management? It means that issues in the WOMENomics modules are the issues that are of importance to all workingwomen and their families. The issues addressed within the modules can be implemented into monthly programs and/or special half-day or one-day seminars.
   
• Women As Entrepreneurs
• Childcare in My Community and My Company
• Women and Investing
• Employees, Communities and Employers Working Toward Work-Life Balance
• Workplace Equity: How Pay Equity Affects Women in the Workplace
• Women and Politics
• Women and the Law
• Women and Medicine: Healthy Workingwomen.
• Diversity in the Workplace: Gender and Ethnicity
• Women in the MedialTechnologies
• Working Mothers: Challenges and Successes
• Women and the Business of Sports
  
  These are excellent topics that can be addressed by both state and local organizations: keynote speaker, roundtable discussion, or panel. A tool that can be of great use to you and your local/state organization is the manual that the BPW Foundation developed to help local organizations plan their WOMENomics forums. The manual includes
  pertinent information that BPW local organizations planning a WOMENomics forum would need, but it also addresses how to secure partners/sponsors, how to raise funds for the program with sample letters for the corporate community, timeline, and sample press releases. BPW members can download information about the WOMENomics Program from the BPW website.
  
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