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Women as Change Agents in the Emerging Green Economy
What is going on?
Wealthy Women – In the United Kingdom there are 72,000 female multimillionaires – up 40 per cent from 2004 (Financial Times, March 27,2010).
Working Women – From 2000 to 2005 of all new jobs created in America over the median income level ($48,000), 89 per cent were filled by women.
College Educated Women – Although men go to college at the same rate as women, more woman graduate college than men. Two out of every three undergraduate degrees are earned by women. Women exceed men in the attaining advanced degrees, i.e. masters and doctoral degrees.
Professional Women – Seventy-five per cent of all professionals in America are women.
Employed Women – Of the 5.1 million jobs lost in America, almost 80 per cent have been lost by men. Women are at parity in the percentage of the employed population.
Women have come a long way. It was only eighty years ago women earned the right to vote.
What is going on?
Why women? Why Now?
The opportunity is great. The opportunity for change is greater. The need for change is greatest.
In the last twenty years the poorest people in the United States became poorer. The richest people made the most mistakes with the least amount of accountability. What is going on? The need for change has never been greater.
Women have never had a greater opportunity to create change, to have an impact on society, than today.
Tom Barrett to speak at Society of Women Engineers Meeting
Chicago — Local environmental expert Tom Barrett will speak at a meeting of the Society of Women Engineers meeting at the Illinois Institute of Technology, September 29, 12:50 to 1:40. His presentation, “Women as Change Agents in the Emerging Green Economy,” will help to educate and empower young women, and teach them how they can make a difference in their professional careers.
“Women are a critical part of the green revolution,” said Barrett. “I’m excited to talk to these young engineers about how they can make a positive impact in environmental engineering.”
For more information about the Society of Women Engineers, please visit http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org.