Ascend at the Aspen Institute has just released their brief, Women’s Economic Empowerment 2020, which draws upon a round-table held with 50 leaders on women’s economic empowerment. The report includes:
• Practical new ideas to build women’s economic security;
• Principles for a 21st century economic agenda for women; and
• Local and state momentum for policy change.
Women’s economic security is just one of many of the issues we are working to address in New Mexico here at NewMexicoWomen.Org. This brief provides some great insights and actions for change including the power of child savings accounts in building traditions of saving and financial literacy in families and the importance of applying a two-generation programmatic lens that supports both parents and their children – the whole family – on a path to economic security and education. Specifically relevant to New Mexico, Anne Mosle, Vice President of the Aspen Institute is quoted stating, “I don’t think we claim enough of our power. In Albuquerque, women are majority voters. You can’t win a presidential or gubernatorial election without women. Why is child care still a sideline issue?”
To learn more, click here and read the Women’s Economic Empowerment 2020 brief in full.