JOIN PHILADELPHIA NOW AND YOUNG WOMEN'S INITIATIVE WITH REP. BABETTE JOSEPHS

PHILADELPHIA NOW and YOUNG WOMEN’S INITIATIVE

Invite you to

An Evening with Pennsylvania State Representative Babette Josephs
Chair, State Government Committee
182nd District


And She Should Run, a program of the Women's Campaign Fund

Thursday, September 16, 2010
6-8 p.m.
TAVERN ON BROAD
200 South Broad Street (at Walnut), Philadelphia

Half-price drinks and appetizers

Interested in running for office? Join Philadelphia NOW and Young Women's Initiative for an Evening with State Representative Babette Josephs, Chair of the State Government Committee and veteran lawmaker. Come out to learn more about the She Should Run Program of the Women's Campaign Fund, which supports women in their elections!

There is a real need for more women to consider running for office. Currently, there are only 17 women in state office in Pennsylvania. Believe it or not, many women don't even think to run for office unless someone asks them. And even though women win elections at the same rate as men, they just don’t run as often.

Join us and learn more about how women are changing the face of democracy through plan and action--and how you can join them!

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EVENT: Contact Dee at dee.phillynow@gmail.com or 215.266.9021 or Tiffany at tiffanybernice@yahoo.com

UNSHACKLED!

By Executive Vice President Dee Johnson

Philadelphia NOW is proud to have been involved in the development of the Healthy Birth of Incarcerated Women's Act (SB 1074). The bill was introduced by Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery County), signed into law (Act 45) by Gov. Ed Rendell on July 2, and took effect on Monday, August 30, 2010.

It bans the practice of shackling pregnant women incarcerated in Pennsylvania's state prisons and county jails during transport to hospital, and while in labor, delivery, and recovery.

We celebrated this victory with a host of other groups involved in this effort at a press conference and reception. Well, that's one fight won for women in Pennsylvania, and so many others to go...