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The Summit is a conference that will bring together feminist grassroots activists, academics and educators, women's policy researchers, NGO's, non-profits, social justice organizations, and labor, business, and government leaders committed to strengthening the economic and political power of women - as workers, business owners, caregivers, family providers, voters, and leaders. The summit will provide diverse perspectives combining academic findings on the economic status of women with action strategies for promoting equality. Participants will identify trends, challenges, and solutions from the local to the global arena, considering class, race, cultural, religious and gender realities.

Goals of the Summit include expanding the body of knowledge on critical economic issues; increasing our global understanding of the economic challenges women face; building and strengthening alliances in the economic justice movement; developing recommendations and strategies for enhancing women's economic empowerment; and informing the policy globally and locally, including the 2008 U.S. Presidential election debate

The summit will include a special day-long series of workshops facilitated by IWPR on women’s political activism and the values that drive it on Friday, April 11.

Network Building Across Movements
The workshop series is designed to bring together women activists from across different movements for change: religious and secular, feminist and social justice. Workshops will explore the basic values that inspire and shape our work, examine how those ideas shape our goals and strategies, and assess how our similarities and differences shape potential collaborations.

Encouraging the Development of Local Collaborations
A central goal will be to build new alliances among women who are active in all kinds of social justice movements: feminist organizing, religious social justice organizing, secular social justice organizing, community organizing, civil rights, and others. The workshop series will encourage women to develop their own collaborations across movements for change among women in their local communities and constituencies.

Women’s Action Agenda
The workshop series will encourage the development of a women’s action agenda based on women’s values. IWPR will present a draft national agenda, analysis of issues in the agenda, and exploration of language for women’s organizing that moves beyond traditionally “secular” and “religious” approaches. The document will serve as a “white paper” to spark conversation. Participants will be asked to engage and react to it, and will help mold the final version.

The cost of registration for the Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges workshop series is $90. Participants must pre-register for the series and will be sent background materials ahead of time.

The cost of attending the full two days of the Economic Justice Summit, including the workshop series, is $149 before March 1st or $199 thereafter. Students are eligible for a scholarship rate of $49 for the full Summit.

For more information on the Workshop Series,
please contact Erica Williams at williams@iwpr.org or 202-785-5100.
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20^th Anniversary Celebration

Taking the Lead: Changing Women's Lives
Through Research

A reception and premiere dance performance to celebrate IWPR's 20^th Anniversary

Thursday, November 29^th, 2007
New York City

Reception: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
wine and hor d'oeuvres at Bricco Ristorante
304 West 56^th Street (between 8^th and 9^th Avenues)

Remarks by
Shelia Wellington, Heidi Hartmann, and Marcia Worthing

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Past Conferences

IWPR's Eighth International Women’s Policy Research Conference, When Women Gain, So Does the World
June 19-21, 2005

Thank You for Attending!

View proceedings online in PDF format by clicking here.

A big thanks to all who participated.

View proceedings online in PDF format by clicking here.

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