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The Tennessee Economic Council on Women assesses Tennessee women’s economic status. It develops and advocates solutions to address women’s needs to help women achieve economic autonomy. In setting its priorities, the Council selects issues that are timely and likely to result in positive changes for women.
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Dee Dee Myers to Keynote 2010 Summit
The Tennessee Economic Council on Women is delighted to announce Dee Dee Myers as the luncheon keynote speaker for the 2010 Economic Summit for Women. Myers is a political analyst and commentator. Currently, she is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a popular lecturer on politics, the media and women's issues. Myers served as White House Press Secretary during President Clinton's first term; she was the first women and one of the youngest people to ever hold that job. Myers is also the author of Why Women Should Rule the World. Blending memoir, social history, and a call to action, Dee Dee Myers challenges her readers to imagine a not-too-distant future in which increasing numbers of women reach the top ranks of business, politics, science and academia. For more information on the Summit, including this year's "E" Awards, scholarship opportunities and the many outstanding speakers, visit www.womenseconomicfoundation.org. |
Council Meeting
The Council will hold its next quarterly meeting in Nashville on August 27, 2010. |
Economic Impact of
Women’s Wages & Earnings
At the 2009 Economic Summit for Women, the Council released it most recent report, The Economic Impact of Wages & Earnings for Tennessee Women. This report provides a history of wages, statistical analysis of the relationships between income, occupation and gender specifically in Tennessee, and ideas for closing the wage gap and providing economic stability. See the full report: The Economic Impact of Wages and Earnings for Tennessee Women. |
Preventive Healthcare Report
There is no greater imperative in American health care than switching from a treatment-oriented society to a prevention-oriented society. Right now we've got it backwards. We wait years and years, doing nothing about unhealthy eating habits and lack of physical activity until people get sick. Then we spend billions of dollars on costly treatments, often when it is already too late to make meaningful improvements to their quality of life or lifespan.
—Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General
of the United States
The Council’s recent report focuses on the economic impact preventive care has in Tennessee. See the full report: The Economic Impact of Insufficient Preventive Healthcare for Tennessee Women. |
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