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File #: 000292    Version: 0 Name:
Type: Privileged Resolution Status: ENACTED
File created: 5/4/2000 In control: CITY COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 5/4/2000
Title: Proclaiming the week of May14, 2000 as Working Women's Awareness Week.
Sponsors: Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Goode, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember DiCicco, Council President Verna, Councilmember Nutter, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Ortiz, Councilmember Mariano, Councilmember Longstreth, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember O'Neill
Attachments: 1. Resolution No. 00029200.pdf
Title
Proclaiming the week of May14, 2000 as Working Women's Awareness Week.
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WHEREAS, Working women comprise nearly half of the U.S. labor force with over 61 million women in the workplace; and
 
WHEREAS, Women in the workforce face added burdens caused by the demands of balancing family life with full-time jobs. Demands including child rearing and caring for dependent adults; and
 
WHEREAS, Not all women in the workforce have equal pay and advancement opportunities, they face employment discrimination, have fewer health care benefits, and endure social security and pension inequities; and
 
WHEREAS, Government, business and labor leaders should make efforts to find solutions to the special problems working women face; and
 
WHEREAS, Women deserve recognition for the important contributions they make in their workplaces and communities and it is necessary to increase public awareness of those contributions; now therefore
 
RESOLVED, THAT THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, Declares the week of May 14, 2000 as Working Women's Awareness Week.
 
FURTHER RESOLVED, That an Engrossed copy of this resolution be presented to Kathy Black, a tireless advocate for working women, to further express the sincere sentiments of this legislative body.
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