Center for Women Policy Studies

The Center for Women Policy Studies "was founded in 1972 as the first feminist policy analysis and research institution in the USA

"Our mission today is what it was then – to shape public policy to improve women’s lives and preserve women’s human rights.

"For more than three decades, the Center has brought the voices and needs of women and girls to major public policy debates on such issues as: equal credit opportunity, educational equity, violence against women and girls, welfare reform, work/family balancing and workplace diversity policies, reproductive rights and health, the women’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, access to health care for low income women, and much more."

Jane Roberts Chapman and Margaret Gates (former NOW activists) obtained a $10,000 seed grant from one of Ralph Nader’s organizations in the early 1970s. The: “In March 1972, the two women used the money to found the Center for Women Policy Studies (CWPS). A few months later, they were beginning to home in on the credit issue when they heard that the Ford Foundation was interested in it as well. In December 1972, the Foundations gave CWPS $40,000 – its first grant to any feminist group – to study sex discrimination in credit.”

Directors
Accessed September 2007:


 * Rita Jaramillo
 * Francesta Farmer
 * Jacquelyn Lendsey
 * Carmen Lomellin - Executive Secretary, Inter-American Commission of Women, Organization of American States (OAS)
 * C. Lynn McNair
 * Karen A. Schneider
 * Leslie R. Wolfe - President

Policy Council 2007
Accessed September 2007:


 * Barbara Arnwine
 * Adrienne Asch
 * Polly Baca
 * Viola Baskerville
 * Charlotte Bunch
 * Joanne Chase
 * Vivian Lowery Derryck
 * Paul Di Donato
 * Peter Edelman
 * Laura Efurd
 * Susan Estrich
 * Laura Hall
 * Jean V. Hardisty
 * Frances Kissling
 * Jeanne Kohl-Welles
 * Julianne Malveaux
 * Mary Jo McGuire
 * Angela Monson
 * Velmanette Montgomery
 * Constance Morella
 * Sandra Pappas
 * Kitty Piercy
 * Beryl Radin
 * Loretta Ross
 * Debbie Wasserman Schultz
 * Allyson Schwartz
 * Julia Scott
 * Elizabeth Toledo
 * Velma Veloria
 * Lynn Woolsey
 * Patrisha Wright
 * Helen Zia

Research Advisory 2007
Accessed September 2007:


 * Irene Blea
 * Esther Ngan-ling Chow
 * Bonnie Thornton Dill
 * Karen Dugger
 * Oliva Espin
 * Yen Le Espiritu
 * Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
 * Evelyn Nakano Glenn
 * Beverly Guy-Sheftall
 * Evelyn Hu-Dehart
 * Aida Hurtado
 * Sheila Jones
 * Elaine Kim
 * M. Bahati Kuumba
 * Juanita Tamayo Lott
 * Ngina Lythcott
 * Vickie Mays
 * Gwendolyn Mink
 * Chandra Talpade Mohanty
 * Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
 * Diana May Pearce
 * Dianne Pinderhuges
 * Jael Silliman
 * Dana Takagi
 * Ruth Zambrana
 * Maxine Baca Zinn

Contact

 * Web: http://www.centerwomenpolicy.org

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