Our 2023-24 Advocacy Priorities

State of Connecticut

• Mental Health Equity: Provide funding for underserved schools- mental health resources.

  
  

• Title IX: Add protections for sexual assault victims from being improperly charged with false reporting.

  
  

• Equal Pay: Mandate salary range transparency for all job postings + paid sick days.

  
  

• Pink Tax: End discriminatory practice of charging different prices for substantially similar goods or services based upon gender, eg., menstrual products.

Federal

• AP Women’s History: Petition AP Board to add optional AP Women’s History course to address poor female representation in US History book text.

• AI/Photoshop Law: Mandate that published digitally altered images include disclaimer to address body image, disordered eating, and eating disorder crisis.