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Aiming High's Annual Awards Luncheon

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At Legal Momentum's Aiming High luncheon, we salute the accomplishments of extraordinary women who have broken through to the top of their profession. The success of our Honorees brings the promise that women's voices, views, and talents are becoming a permanent part of our nation's corporate culture. Their courage to aim high has helped blaze a trail to guide millions of women and girls toward opportunities once closed to them.  Our April 2008 Aiming High honorees were Bonnie Howard, Chief Auditor, Citi; Rosemary Nelson, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Operations, Colgate-Palmolive Company; Louise M. Parent, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, American Express Companyl and Lynn Pike, President, Banking, Capital One.

Release of 2008 Report "Sex, Lies, & Stereotypes"

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Legal Momentum held a panel discussion on Capitol Hill on the release of its groundbreaking report "Sex, Lies & Stereotypes: How Abstinence-Only Programs Harm Women and Girls."  On February 26, 2008, honorary Co-Sponsor Representative Henry A. Waxman welcomed warmly speakers Julie F. Kay from Legal Momentum, Jamila Taylor from the Center for Health and Gender Equality (CHANGE), and Jen Heitel Yakush from Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).

Images by Judy G. Rolfe. Photo credit required.

Equality Works

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Legal Momentum’s Equality Works Program pushes to get women trained, recruited, and hired for so-called “non-traditional jobs” (building trades, firefighting, etc.) and to help fight discrimination against women in these fields. It is important that women have equal access to careers in these fields because they often offer high wages, generous benefits, flexible schedules, and are accessible without a college degree.

Introducing Non-Traditional Jobs to Girls

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The Brooklyn College Community Partnership invited us to attend their fall afterschool career fair. Over one hundred students from five high schools participate in the Community partnership and attended the Career Day. There were 14 speakers including Brigitte Watson on behalf of Legal Momentum’s Equality Works and presented on careers in the construction, building, repair and maintenance trades.

Sheila Wellstone Award Reception

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The Sheila Wellstone Institute announced that the recipient of its 2007 National Sheila Wellstone Award is National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women, a broad-based coalition of more than five hundred organizations and individuals that advocate. provide services, and offer assistance to immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trafficking. The National Network is directed by the 3 co-chair organizations: the Family Violence Prevention Fund, ASISTA Immigration Technical Assistance Project, and Legal Momentum's Immigrant Women Program. The Wellstone Award was presented on Monday, October 1 at a reception in the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. Legal Momentum's Immigrant Women Program director, Leslye Orloff, who is also an associate vice president, accepted for Legal Momentum. Majority Leader Harry Reid, U.S. Senator for Nevada, was among the many Members of Congress who attended, congratulating the Network and thanking the honorees for their effective and tireless efforts on behalf of immigrant women victims.

Photo Album

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