This week Chrysalis Executive Director Terry Hernandez presented statistics from our new report, SHE MATTERS:
2012 Status of Women and Girls in Iowa, to over 900 women attending the
Iowa Women’s Leadership Conference in Coralville. She also had an
opportunity to participate as a guest on “Talk of Iowa” on the Iowa Public
Radio station as we shared some of the significant findings of this report, and over the weekend will present the report findings at the Iowa Business and
Professional Women’s annual conference here in Des Moines.
We have
done this report in partnership with the Iowa Women’s Leadership Project, a
network of organizations from around the state with a vested interest in the
success of women; Terry Hernandez researched and wrote the report, and Mary Ann Lee, Chrysalis Research
Associate, provide a significant amount of reference material you’ll find in
the report.
The
partnership met roughly one year ago, called together to find ways we can work
together to improve conditions for females in our state. We believe this
report will provide a starting point for our shared work, and an opportunity to
benchmark progress (or not) in important areas for women and girls’ success.
The report will be updated annually, and next fall, our website will include an
interactive tool to research a range of data concerning women and girls – this
will be available to all interested organizations, corporations,
decision-makers, and community members.
If you’d like to hear the Iowa Public Radio interview:
http://iowapublicradio.org/news/news_story.php?story=3660
Thank you
for making this work possible!
