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Chicago Foundation for Women

Making Chicago the City Where Women and Girls Thrive

K. Sujata | Posted 05.27.2013 | Chicago
Read More: Jane Addams, Girls, Women's History Month, Women, Nobel Peace Prize, Chicago Foundation for Women, Chicago, Chicago News
K. Sujata

Perhaps I'm biased, but Chicago is a special place for women. The women who hail from this city are more than historic; they are change agents.

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Anita Hill: Still Standing Up and Speaking Out

Michele Weldon | Posted 11.28.2012 | Women
Read More: Women, Stand Up, Doemstic Violence, Chicago, Chicago-Foundation-for-Women, Anita Hill, The OpEd Project, Sexual Harassment, Truth, Women News
Michele Weldon

As a journalist I wrote about the bravery of so many others -- Hill was just one of hundreds of women I profiled and opined about. I spoke openly of their bravery. I was not ready to own mine.

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School's Out, Progress Is In

K. Sujata | Posted 09.12.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Girls, Summer Camp, Teenage Girls, Summer, Summer Vacation, Women's Sports, Gender Equality, Girls Rock! Chicago, Girls in the Game, Title IX, Chicago Foundation for Women, Fitness and Exercise, Project Exploration, Chicago News
K. Sujata

This year we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX, which bars sex discrimination in publicly funded programs. It has increased girls' access to public education, extracurricular programs and, yes, athletics, for which it's best known.

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Women and Minorities Bit Players, But Gaining in Selling to America's Biggest Customer -- the Federal Government

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Small Business, Valarie King-Bailey, Federal Contracts, Federal Contracting, Women in Government, Equal Opportunity, American Express, Diversity Initiatives in Business, Recovery Programs, Women Minority Owned Businesses, OnShore Technologies, Minority Owned Businesses, Give Me 5 Program, Chicago Foundation for Women, Stimulus Programs, Women Owned Businesses, Government Procurement, Black Owned Businesses, Women?S Economic Advancement, American Express OPEN, Request for Proposal, Eddie Washington, Waukegan, City of Chicago Contracts, State Contracts, Bidding, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

When it comes to stimulus-related government contracts for small business, women's business, and minority-owned businesses, there are but few happy campers.

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It's the Economy -- And the Women Who Make it Tick -- Stupid

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Chicago Foundation for Women, Women and Economy, Economy, Working Women, Denyce Graves, C.F.W., Shelley A. Davis, Teatro Luna, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Women and children first -- first to get aid from gentlemen on a sinking ship, but also first to sink in a financial downturn.

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