Poll Findings: Understanding What Women Want in 2008

What Women Want
Poll Findings: Women Are Worried About the Future and Believe Government Must Act

According to arecent poll by the National Women's Law Center, women feel the impact of economic insecurity and rising food, energy, education, and health care costs more deeply than men - and see government as a key to the solution.

Women want:

• A better health care system
• An end to the wage gap
• Affordable birth control, comprehensive sex education, and protection for Roe v. Wade
• Access to high-quality child care
• Improved economic security for women and their families
• A solution to the dropout crisis
• A fair and independent judiciary

For more detailson the poll, read NWLC's press release, the fact sheet,or the complete Interested Parties memo on the poll results.

A Platform for Progress

The National Women's Law Center also released A Platform for Progress - an agenda to address the unmet needs of women and their families in the areas of education, employment, economic security, health, and legal rights.

What's Your Take?

What's your take on the issues addressed by this poll? Tell us what you think.

Media Coverage

The polling data has been featured in:

• Huffington Post
• Politico
• Womenstake.org

Document(s):

Platform for Progress 2008 one page factsheet