[News-releases] Women 2006: A Powerful Force in the Elections

For Immediate Release
Contact: Lisa Bennett, 202-628-8669, ext. 123; cell 202-641-1906

Women 2006: A Powerful Force in the Elections

Women's Rights Leaders to Release Analysis and New Exit Poll showing that Women Emerge in this Election Cycle as Critical Voters and Leaders for the New Political Agenda

Who:	Denise Baer, Strategic Research Concepts, President Martha Burk, National Council of Women's Organizations Lorraine Cole, YWCA, Chief Executive Officer Kim Gandy, National Organization for Women, President Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers, Co-Founder Crystal Lander, Feminist Majority, Campus Director Eleanor Smeal, Ms. Magazine, Publisher E. Faye Williams, National Congress of Black Women, Chair
What:	Press Conference to release a new Ms. magazine/Women Donors Network exit poll by Lake Research Partners and an analysis of the 2006 elections on women as voters, candidates and agenda-setters
When:	Monday, November 13, 2006 - 12:00 noon
Where:	National Press Club, Murrow Room 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.

Women made the difference in the 2006 elections with aggressive get-out-the-vote campaigns, a record number of female candidates and a new agenda for change. Their votes helped usher new top leadership into both houses of Congress, including Nancy Pelosi, soon to be the first woman Speaker of the House. The new agenda for the First 100 Hours and Six for '06 includes policies that will have an enormous impact on women from raising the minimum wage (women are paid 77 cents to a man's $1) to preserving Social Security and initiating a new direction for the war in Iraq.

What part did women, as voters, candidates and agenda setters play in the success stories of the 2006 midterm elections? What happened with the gender gap? How will the new leadership impact women's rights issues, in Congress and State Capitols? What do women want to see on the agenda for the 110th Congress?  What impact will Speaker of the House Pelosi have on women's lives? Women's leaders and experts who were active in the 2006 elections will address these questions and more.

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