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Volume
10
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Issue
2
Celebrating 31 years in San Diego (1970-2001)
SAN DIEGO COUNTY
NOW NEWS
National
Organization for Women—San Diego County Chapter
Message
from the President by
Linda Cianciolo
March is Women’s History
Month with International Women’s Day on March 8th. Women in the United
States organized the first national Women’s Day in response to the
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 women who were
trapped in a locked workroom. Their actions helped inspire International
Women’s Day, which later became a recognition week for Women’s
History, and in 1987 was expanded by Congressional action
to the entire month of March. Celebrate the women who made our nation
great! [See Page 5 to find out how you can celebrate women who have
made San Diego great!]
March is also election time — the
primaries are Tuesday, March 5th. Please, everyone, exercise this
all-important right, which women like Susan B. Anthony worked all their
lives to give you, and VOTE! There are many crucial state and local
races that could be decided that day, as well as many ballot
initiatives. Check out the California NOW website (www.canow.org) for
CA-NOW PAC’s endorsement for the 2002 primaries.
Next month, April, is Equal Pay Month —
U.S. women face one of the largest gender-based pay gaps in the
developed world. Unfortunately, many women are still boxed into low
paying “women’s work.” Women working full time earn on the average
only 74 cents to their male counterparts’ dollar.
April is also California NOW State
Conference time and this year we are lucky to be the host city for the
conference. Be sure to save the weekend of April 26 through April 28 to
attend the conference. Plan to spend Friday evening, April 26, with us
at the Holiday Inn-Bayside for a reception and meet NOW members from
throughout the state and region. There will be many interesting
workshops and a film screening on Saturday, April 27, and presentations
and speeches on Sunday morning, April 28. More information will be
forthcoming soon. We really need your support for the conference and we
encourage your attendance at any (or all!) of the conference events.
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