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The purpose of this page is to provide you with a variety of information relevant to women's issues. It will include lists of women related California state legislation, press releases and articles relating to women, the score cards of California state legislators and the Governor of California on women related state legislation and other related material.

This web site is designed to be of use to those interested in these issue and to community activists interested in these issues. People are encouraged to make suggestions as to what material should be added to these pages. Anyone may do that by sending a message to b.hinman@calcomui.org with a suggestion.

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Women's Legislation Addressed By CalComUI

To see a list of the women's issue bills addressed by CalComUI click on the following link.

Women's Bills Addressed By CalComUI

A study of how the emergence of women in the workplace has created vast changes in California and the nation has just been released by Maria Shriver in collaboration with the Center for American Progress.

To see the full report, click on the following link: A Woman's Nation

Federal Women's Legislation/Issues

To see a list of federal bills and issues addressed by the National Organization For Women, click: http://www.now.org/actions/

To see a list of federal bills and issues addressed by the National Abortion Rights Action League click: http://www.naral.org/choice-action-center/take-action/

Legislator's Scores On Women's Issues

 

California 2011 Legislative Score Card

We acknowledge, with gratitude, that the following score cards are made possible by Capitol Track. (http://www.capitoltrack.com)

The purpose of the score cards below is to tell you the scores that California Communities United Institute (CalComUI) has given to the voting records of California's state legislators on Women's Issues related legislation. To see the scores we have assigned to each legislator, click the links below.

The legislator's tables below will tell you how each legislator voted on each bill. In all cases, CalComUI supported the bill. So, a score of "1" for a bill means the legislator voted for the bill, a score of "0" means the legislator voted against the bill, and a score of "0.5" means the legislator was absent or abstained from voting on that bill.

The legislator's scores for each bill in the following tables is assigned on the basis of a legislator's vote on the floor of the Senate or Assembly. We did not score legislator's votes in committees.

You can look at the tables to see how your Senator and Assembly Member voted on the bills. If you don't remember who they are, links near the top of each table will enable you to find out who they are.

If you have Excel on your computer, you can download any of the following tables and sort them in any way you like. For example, you might want to sort them by Party and then do an average score for the legislators in either or both parties. By contrast, you can sort them by score to see which legislators had the highest scores and which the lowest.

Legislators are fund raising for their next election. If a legislator comes to you for a donation, you may want to check his or her scores on the tables below to see if you want to support that legislator. The score cards may also help you to decide whom you want to vote for.

To see the score cards, click on the links below. (Note: Please be patient. Some of the Score Cards open slowly.)

2011 Assembly Women's Issues Related Legislation

2011 Senate Women's Issues Related Legislation

National Women's Law Center Report On Women's Health

                                 Women’s National Health Care Report Out

                                    California Given Rate of Unsatisfactory

The National Women’s Law Center has released its 2010 report on Women’s Health. The Report assesses the state of women’s health nationally and state by state. It also rates the effectiveness of state programs designed to improve the health of women.

The report says that no state got a "satisfactory" grade on these issues in 2010. Two received a grade of "satisfactory minus" (Massachusetts and Vermont) , 12 received a grade of "unsatisfactory", and 36 states received "failing grades". California received an unsatisfactory grade but scored better than all but 11 other states.

To read more, and find links to the actual Women's National Law Center Report, click the following link: Women's National Law Center Report.

                                                            Newsflashes

10-20-11 California Governor Signs 8 Women's Issue Bills

09-08-11 Important Advance In Women's Health Care Announced

12-13-10 Breast Cancer Research Offers Hope, But Only For A Few

08-15-10  FDA Approves New Contraceptive Pill

06-30-10 New "Morning After" Pill Advances

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