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With a woman guaranteed to become mayor for only the second time in Chicago’s history, the timing could not be better to promote gender equity.
On Friday, City Clerk Anna Valencia chose to celebrate International Women’s Day by unveiling 20 recommendations to do just that.
The top four immediate recommendations: supporting a “fair workweek ordinance”; decreasing testing time for evidence in sexual assault cases; creating a “national model comprehensive health and sexual education” program for Chicago Public Schools and hosting a 2020 Girls Summit to “facilitate a dialogue” among young women.
Longer-term goals include: expanding parental and family leave for city employees; increasing contract set-sides for companies owned and operated by women; creating free access to transportation for pregnancy treatment and other health services; recruiting more women as first-responders; and creating a “career-building pipeline” for women from “under-represented communities.”
The groundbreaking recommendations were the result of five months of meetings and focus groups that involved 120 women and girls across the city.
