BPW Colorado's Advocacy Platform 2020-2021

For a PDF copy of the  BPW Colorado Advocacy Platform Document, click here: 2020 BPW CO Advocacy Platform

Business and Professional Women (BPW) of Colorado

ADVOCACY PLATFORM 2020-2021

BPW will employ education, advocacy, monitoring, and tracking strategies to meet the following priorities:

Equal Rights - The Alice Paul Equal Rights Amendment shall stand first and foremost above all other items of the advocacy platform until Equal Rights have been guaranteed in the United States Constitution – i.e.  “Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”

Economic Equity and Justice

• Access to pay equity and retirement equity
• Access to education, training, and promotional opportunities
• Access to equal opportunities in the workplace and corporate boards
• Access to women business enterprise procurement process
• Access to quality, affordable dependent care (child, elderly or disabled)
• Access to funding and capital for entrepreneurial activity
• Access to affordable and attainable housing

Health Equity and Justice

• Access to affordable care for all
• Reproductive choice
• Paid sick leave
• Family and medical leave
• Equal research funding for women’s and girl’s health issues
• Health education funding for women’s and girl’s health issues
• Health education funding for women and girls
• Prevention of pregnancy and infant care discrimination in the workplace (reasonable accommodations for breast feeding/breast pumping and pregnancy related conditions)
• Ensure workplace safety
• Expansion of mental health coverage and services

Human Rights – recognition that women’s rights are human rights

• Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
• Passage of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• Eradicate domestic violence and the electronic and physical stalking, sexual harassment, sexual abuse and discrimination
• Oppose human trafficking, sexual exploitation and slavery
• Equal education opportunity, including adequate funding of public education, preschool through postsecondary
• Support equal rights for LGBTQ+ persons
• Support equal treatment of and end discrimination against minority women
• Support policies and practices that promote environmental sustainability
• Support the endeavors of and improve conditions for military-affiliated women
• Support equitable treatment of women in the criminal justice system, including health and hygiene