Jen is right. Women’s voices are needed when it comes to the economy.
After all, women make most of the day-to-day financial decisions in their homes. We set budgets, track spending and decide who needs what and when.
Earlier this year, The Center for American Progress, an independent, nonpartisan policy institute, released a collection of policy recommendations that centers the changes women need in their economic platforms in order to grow the economy.
The recommendations include three main areas:
1. Guaranteed family planning and care
2. Deliver good jobs
3. Build a labor force for the future
Guaranteed family planning and care means protecting and increasing abortion access by making it more affordable; ensuring contraception options are accessible and affordable; providing affordable, accessible, and high-quality child care; and ensuring families have the resources to care for older adults.
Deliver good jobs means closing the gender pay gap; guaranteeing comprehensive, inclusive paid family and medical leave and sick time; ending discrimination and harassment at work, expanding access to male-dominated jobs; and protecting and strengthening the right to organize to create better-quality jobs for workers.
Build a labor force for the future means addressing the labor supply challenges of the future with immigration; ensuring older women can freely participate in the labor market; supporting women affected by the legal system; and eliminating barriers to employment for disabled women.
We want an economy that delivers for women, because doing so will deliver for all.
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The Economy Should Work for Everyone