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Susan Scanlan interviewed on Womens Radio

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Supplement Issue of Women’s Health Issues

Veteran and Active-Duty Military

Women’s Health and Health Care Delivery

Submission Deadline: November 15^th, 2010

The Editors of Women’s Health Issues and the Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) invite manuscripts reporting the results of original research on topics related to the health and health care of U.S. women Veterans and/or women in the military for a Supplement of the journal to be published in 2011. Papers must be submitted electronically via the journal’s online manuscript processing system at http://ees.elsevier.com/whi. Please note in your cover letter that you wish to have your manuscript considered for this Supplement.

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Call for papers

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Remembering Juanita M. Kreps

WREI has learned with sorrow of the death of long time board member Juanita M. Krups, who died July 5. She was 89.

Although no longer active due to illness, she provided WREI wise counsel and lent her name and reputation to many of our programs.

Dr. Kreps joined the WREI Board in 1981, following her service as Secretary of Commerce in the Carter Administration -- one of only four women appointed to such high office. She made it her business to expand opportunities for women in and out of government through her own research as a labor economist, by advocating women’s recruitment and promotion on the many corporate boards she was elected to, and as Dean of the Women’s College at Duke University.

It was Dr. Kreps who persuaded Sally Ride to accept WREI’s American Woman Award in 1999, who reviewed our statistical profiles in each edition of The American Woman, and who steered research opportunities on women’s employment our way.

Juanita Kreps was a gracious lady, a ground-breaking leader, a respected scholar, and a dear friend. WREI will miss her.

Learn more about this extraordinary women here.

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Don't balance the budget on backs of women!

Susan Scanlan testifies before

Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

WREI President Susan Scanlan, in her role as Chair of the National Council of Women's Organizations, called on members of the Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform not to balance the budget through cuts to Social Security.

"Social Security has not contributed one red cent to the deficit..." Scanlan stated in testimony before the commission June 30. "Suggestions about cutting benefits or raising the retirement age represent nothing less than the country’s breaking its word with its most vulnerable citizens. Truly, America is better than that...

"I know that you are looking out for our grandchildren. So I’m here today speaking for today’s and tomorrow’s grandma’s. The 12 million members of the National Council of Women’s Organizations are ready, willing, and able to work with you to defeat the deficit. Give us a fair plan that eliminates the Bush tax cuts, ends two unfunded wars, and spreads the sacrifice to those who can afford it. Then we’ll roll up our sleeves to work with you.

"But," she warned, 'we will stand as one against any efforts to renege on this enduring and essential social contract by balancing the budget on women's backs."

Click here for the complete statement

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Once and current Fellows at WREI’s

June 8th Capitol Hill reception

Front:

Irene Lin, Elizabeth Darnall, A.Tianna Scozzaro, Davida Walsh

Second Row:

Heidi Hollonbeck Robinson, Alicia Butler Dupre, WREI President Susan Scanlan,

Linda Mancillas, Amber Shipley, Anh Phan

Back Row:

Jo Deutsch, Adriane Casalotti, Jacqueline Ayers, Leslie Greenberg, Savannah Lengsfelder,

Lisa Maatz, Fatemeh Hosseini, Carolyn Hughes, Debbie Jessup

To view more photos from this event, click here

To view photos from previous events, click here

Click here to meet this extraordinary group of women

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Remembering Dr. Dorothy Height

WREI Board Member/President emerita

of the National Council of Negro Women

Dr. Dorothy Height, a founder and WREI board member for 33 years, died Tuesday, April 20th, at age 98.

Her loss will be deeply felt in both the civil rights and women’s communities.

“WREI has benefited from Dr. Height’s leadership since our founding in 1977 as the data/policy analysis arm of the Congresswomen’s Caucus,” said Susan Scanlan, WREI president. “A woman who changed history—and who lived long enough to witness these changes—Dorothy Height’s vision defined and reinforced our mission. She brought a sense of calm, cohesion, and capability to every conversation.”

Another special link between WREI and Dr. Height: She was appointed by President Harry Truman to the first board of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service (DACOWITS). Over the years, she provided wise counsel to WREI’s one-of-a-kind Women in the Military project.

Learn more about Dr. Height's career, accomplishments and honors here

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WREI's Scanlan is

PLEN 2010 Mentor Award honoree

WREI president Susan Scanlan accepts a Public Leadership Education Network 2010 Mentor Award at PLEN's 30th anniversary celebration and awards celebration Feb. 25 in Washington.

PLEN is the only national organization whose sole mission is educating women for leadership in the public arena. Its member and associate schools include some of America's most prestigious colleges and universities. It was founded in 1978 by then-Wells College president and former Texas State Legislator Sissy Farenthold, a Scanlan heroine.

Rep. Judy Biggert of Illinois and Washington attorney Valerie Jackson also won Mentor Awards. International development expert Kristin Haffert was the winner of the PLEN Alumna Leadership Award.

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NIGHT O' CHOCOLATE SWEET SUCCESS

Barbara Ferris, founder and president of the International Women's Democracy Center; Florida Rep. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Susan Scanlan at the WREI/IDWC Night O' Chocolate October 1 at AFL-CIO headquarters.

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Now Available

Women in the Military: Where They Stand

Sixth edition

"Military women serving in war zones are such a common sight in worldwide media these days that their presence is little remarked. In both Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom, military women from the U.S. and other countries have shown the mental and physical toughness needed to perform well under fire, to defend themselves and their comrades with courage, and to endure the conditions inherent to life in a combat zone."

WREI is pleased to announce the release of the new sixth edition of Women in the Military: Where They Stand." This new edition includes information on active duty, reserve and Guard forces and on women veterans as well as updated statistics and a chronology of important policy and legislative milestones.

The booklet is available to all US addresses (including military post office addresses) for $5.00 to cover the cost of shipping and handling. The price for addresses in Mexico or Canada is $10.00 and $12.00 for all others.

Now it's easy to order online using most major credit cards through PayPal. Simply click on the button below:

To order by mail, send a check or money order (payable in US funds) and made out to WREI and mailed to WREI 1828 L Street, NW Suite 801 Washington, DC 20036.

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WREI partners with the Global Summit of Women

In January, WREI formed an alliance with Globewomen, Inc., a prominent public affairs firm in Washington, DC. Globewomen links businesswomen worldwide through an international summit, two national conferences, and an online expo of women's products and services.

At the three-day 2008 Summit that opened June 5th in Hanoi, Vietnam, more than 1000 business, professional, government, academic, and entrepreneurial women leaders from around the world gathered to exchange ideas, extend markets, and expand equality. Some 50 government ministers from around the world were there to talk about public/private partnerships to enhance women's economic status.

Click on the logo to read the latest GlobeWomen newsletter

Globewomen's president is Irene Natividad, who, over an impressive, 30-year career, has headed the National Women's Political Caucus, the National Commission on Working Women, and the Philippine American Foundation.