Texas Business Women works hard to ensure equal rights and pay for all women. Over the course of Teas Business Women's history, our members have been part of several successful advocacy campaigns including the Texas Equal Legal Rights Amendment and as early as 1919, Texas Business & Professional Women (TBW's former name) members urged the opening of all civil service exams to women as well as men and supported extending the merit system in government employment to cover more jobs. An early success came in 1923 with the War Classification Act, which established a uniform salary for each specified grade and class of work in the Federal Civil Service.
2011 - 2012 Platform
TBW will work to:
- Ensure pay equity and equal educational and economic opportunities at all stages of life; promote affordable, quality dependent care to help ensure economic self-sufficiency for women.
- Ensure the availability of affordable health care to women and children; ensure funds for research into women’s health care needs; ensure availability of adequate health insurance for women and children.
- Ensure equal rights and remedies for women in all phases of the lives; eliminate sexual harassment and violence against women and children.
