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Welcome to Washington State Business and
Professional Women. Business and Professional Women/USA was founded in 1919 and
promotes equity for all women.
Washington State Business and Professional Women (BPW/WA)
is a member of BPW/USA and BPW/WA Foundation. Founded in 1921, BPW/WA is a
multi-generational, bipartisan membership organization located in communities
throughout Washington. Our members, partners, and supporters are committed to our
on-going mission: To achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy,
education, information and to promote economic self-sufficiency for Washington
working women.
We help women achieve professional and personal goals
through programs, workshops, networking, and friendship. All is achieved through
monthly meetings and other sponsored activities. Each Washington BPW local
organization creates its own unique agenda, but all have the same objectives. BPW/WA
builds powerful women through personal and professional development and increased
political and social awareness. Washington working women and men from communities
large and small are members of Washington BPW.
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2012
State Conference
May
18 - 20, 2012
Embassy
Suites Hotel in Tukwila Washington
 Lilly
Ledbetter to speak at Washington State Business and Professional Women's 2012
Conference.
We
are honored to present Lilly Ledbetter, well
known for her pay equity battle with Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company plant in
Gadsden which led to the passage of a federal law named in her honor, as the guest
speaker at the 2012 State Conference.
Ms. Ledbetter
did not set out to be an activist, but her fight for equal pay went all the way to
the Supreme Court and in 2009 President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
- the first bill he signed into law.
Read more
about Lilly's fight for equal pay.
Insight into Lilly's personal life and family can be found
here.
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