Women's Task Force Group

An Employee Group on Women's issues has convened to identify specific women's issues of employees in the City of Tempe workforce as recommended in the Diversity Audit:

 “Develop employee task force groups to study feasible additions and modifications to work-life balance 
initiatives with an emphasis on diversity enhancement.”

This is a great opportunity for diverse employees of our organization to share their views and experiences and to make recommendations for continued success. The purpose is not to promote a division among our employees, but rather to identify in more detail the needs, areas of opportunity and challenges faced by our diverse work force. It is the goal of the Diversity Steering Committee to gain a greater understanding of the needs of all City of Tempe employees. 

Each committee consists of nine members with five individuals coming from each of the 5-Sided Partnerships (since then a sixth partnership was added). The remaining four spots were filled through competitive recruitment. The Women's Task Force Committee members were as follows: 

 Amy Douglass, TSC Community Services/Museum
 Andrea Glass, IAFF
Peggy Goldberg, Community Services/Social Svcs.
Shelley Hearn, Community Relations/Graphic Design
Lisa Kleinpeter, Community Services/Social Svcs
Carol Martsch, TEC Public Works/Engineering
Cecilia Velasco-Robles/Management/Financial Svcs
Ramon Saiz, Public Works/Sanitation

The Task Force on Women's Issues has completed their one-study and compiled their findings in a 14-page report. Click here to review the report.

Here is some interesting information:

A new set of reports by the American Association of University Women (AAUW), prepared in partnership with the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), shows that while in some areas women are catching up to men, substantial progress is still needed in ensuring all women full access to education. The reports also find that women’s educational gains do not translate into pay equity.

Gains in Learning, Gaps in Earnings: A Guide to State and National Data analyzes women’s educational status in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Access the online resource and related materials here: http://www.aauw.org/research/statedata/  

Some of the key findings include:

  •  Women need more education to reach the level of men’s earnings: at every educational level, women earn less than similarly educated men.

  • Nationally, while the proportion of women with four-year college degrees (15 percent) has almost caught up with men (16.1 percent), women still lag substantially behind men on the proportion with higher degrees, with only 7.8 percent of women and 10 percent of men having received higher degrees.

  • There are gross disparities in the educational attainment of minority women compared with white women:  for example, whereas 26.8 percent of Asian American women and 16.3 percent of white women in the U.S. have four-year college degrees, only 10 percent of African American and 7 percent of Hispanic women hold four year college degrees.

  • Whereas only 14.6 percent of white women lack high school diplomas, 46.6 percent of Hispanic women nationally lack high school diplomas.

 

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