1. “When women succeed, the world succeeds” PILLARS Violence Against Women Health and Wellness Economic Empowerment Entrepreneurship & Innovation Educational Opportunity Civic Engagement and Leadership

2. Civic Nation uses organizing, engagement and public awareness to address some of our nation's most pressing challenges. They work with public and private partners to build tools and campaigns that turn great ideas into action. https://civicnation.org/ “Because no matter who you are, no matter where you live, our parks, our monuments, our lands, our waters — these places are your birthright as Americans” – President Barack Obama, April 22, 2015 “President Obama and I started It’s On Us to wake-up our colleges and universities – and the country – to the epidemic of sexual violence on their campuses.” — Vice President Joe Biden

3. Political Parade of Stars Vice President Biden – authored the Violence Against Women Act (1994) Violence Against Women Office (Dept of Justice) housed within the Office of the Vice President “If we free women, we free men and all of humanity” Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader When women succeed, the world succeeds - the title of House Democrats’ economic agenda for women and working families, built on four pillars of work, family balance: 1.affordable, quality child care 2.fair and equal pay 3.paid family leave 4.strengthened retirement security for women. “We must remember that electing a woman president, or electing a woman to any office, is not about one woman’s achievement, but what it means to other women.”

4. President Barack Obama “Progress is not inevitable …it is the result of decades of slow, tireless, often frustrating and unheralded work ……results of countless ordinary women and men whose names will never be written into history books” Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act of 2009 White House Council on Women and Girls Made advancing gender equity a foreign policy priority "With passion and courage, women have taught us that when we band together to advocate for our highest ideals, we can advance our common well-being and strengthen the fabric of our nation."

5. Companies that have signed the Equal Pay Pledge AccentureCEBGoDaddyPwC AirbnbCiscoJet.comRebecca Minkoff AmazonDeloitteJohnson & JohnsonSalesforce American Airlinesthe Dow Chemical Company L'Oréal USASlack BCGExpedia, Inc.PepsiCoSpotify BufferGap Inc.PinterestStaples Care.comGlassdoorPopcorn HeavenStella McCartney

6. Attorney General, Loretta Lynch “But I want us to remember that the victims of this [the Orlando nightclub] attack were living in an America that had newly recognized their fundamental right to marry; that had draped the White House in a rainbow flag; that had declared in one voice from our highest court that “love is love.” And we are still that country. Far from dividing us as terrorism aims to do, this attack has brought us together – in support, in solidarity and in love.”

7. Solution Seminar: Leading on Leave (sponsored by the US Dept. of Labor) The FMLA cannot meet the needs of working families: 40% of workers are not eligible for FMLA benefits Women 1.7 times more likely to have unmet need for leave than men Minority workers are 2 times as likely to have an unmet need for leave than white workers Workers earning 75K/year.

8. Leading on Leave Panelists Patagonia (Rose Marcario, President and CEO) Women make up 50% of leadership, on site childcare for 33 years (run by them, not outsourced). 100% of their working moms return after leave. Spotify (Katarina Berg, Chief HR Officer) All full-time employees offered up to six months’ parental leave with 100% pay. Parents can take their leave up to the child’s third birthday Mothers and fathers are encouraged to take the full time off, with the added flexibility of splitting their leave into separate periods. A one month ‘Welcome Back!’ program, allowing returning team members to ease back into their job with the ability to work from home, on a part time schedule and with flexible hours. Catalyst (Debra Gillis, President and CEO) http://www.catalyst.org/http://www.catalyst.org/ Non profit organization with mission to accelerate change and inclusion in the workplace through research, tools, services, and events. Family Values at Work (familyvaluesatwork.org) is a national network of 24 state and local coalitions helping spur the growing movement for family-friendly workplace policies such as paid sick days and family leave insurance. The North Carolina Families Care Campaign.familyvaluesatwork.org

9. The Cost of Doing Nothing To workers: 37% spend down savings; 30% accumulate debt; 15% require public assistance Contributes to the gender wage gap Being a mother is now a greater predictor of wage and hiring discrimination than being a woman

10. Source: Hartman H, Hayes J, and Clark J. (2014).How Equal Pay for Working Women would Reduce Poverty and Grow the American Economy: Briefing Paper. Institute For Women’s Policy Research. If Only Women Earned the Same as Comparable Men

11. Families and Business Source: OECD Labour Force Statistics To the Nation: To Families: Increased infant mortality Decreased birth weight Decreased rate and duration of breastfeeding To Business: Increased turnover (median cost to replace worker is 21% of annual salary) Loss of talent Making it harder for American Business to Compete $500 billion

12. States with Mandatory Paid Family Leave Programs California: Six weeks paid parental and family leave; 52 weeks paid disability leave New Jersey: Four weeks paid parental and family leave; 26 weeks of paid disability leave Rhode Island: Four weeks paid parental and family leave; 30 weeks paid disability leave Source: National Conference of State Legislators Results from California: 10 – 17% increase in work hours for employed mothers of small children Increased chance mothers will be employed 9 – 12 months after giving birth Rossin-Slater et al., J Policy Anal Manage. 2013; 32(2): 224–245. Baum and Ruhm, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 35(2), 2016

13. Solution Seminar: Valuing Caregiving in the 21 st Century McKinsey Global Institute Labor Market Research (http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our- research/labor-markets )http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/our- research/labor-markets Globally, women do 3 times as much unpaid care work as men Paid caregiver in the U.S. earns $9/hour on average; 50% of paid caregivers are on public assistance U.S. has a long history of excluding domestic workers from basic labor laws (differentially disadvantages women of color and undocumented immigrants) Caregiving is among the fastest growing sectors of the workforce – unsustainable if caregivers can’t make a living wage! Major crisis in caregiving in the military – most caregivers of disabled military are in their early 20s and will be caregivers the rest of their lives – they are now also the breadwinners….”A disabled family”

14. Anne Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America (www.newamerica.org)www.newamerica.org a non-partisan think tank comprised of scholars, policy experts, and journalists who address major social, economic, and political challenges —and to provide a set of blueprints for American renewal in an era of globalization and digitization. Programs include: Family Centered Social Policy

15. @CaringAcrossGen @WCCampaign @NewAmerica @CareDotCom

16. Partnership between The National Domestic Workers Alliance; Hand in Hand, the Domestic Employees Network; and Care.com

17. Oprah Winfrey Interviews Michelle Obama OW: “What is the one thing you want us to leave here with? What is the one charge or one offering?” MO: “So my hope is that people leave here inspired and ready to do something. Again, remember, it’s not what people say about you, it’s what you do. So the question is what are you going to do? How are you going to be better? What are you going to change in your office, in your life, in your relationships?”

18. 5 takeaways 1. Connect your business to policy reform ( Dr. Atira Charles, Founder and ED of The Mask Project)The Mask Project provide politicians or other policy advocates with data. 2. Check your privilege (Dr. Charles) listen to the narratives that are different from your own…give a voice to the voiceless. 3. Take Control of your time (Michelle Obama) the easiest way to do this is to place value on it! choose your pillars and only consider commitments that align…saying ‘no’ is valuing your time. 4. The best success comes when you can actually shift your paradigm to service (Oprah Winfrey) use your current initiatives, program, efforts as a platform for change. 5. Organize!

19. “Not everyone can be famous but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service.” MLK “The work always continues, we can never be complacent that we’ve arrived as women.” Michelle Obama, USOW, 2016