Why Women Should Vote in 2008

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Why Women Should Vote in 2008
National Women's Law Center

Why should women vote in 2008? Because every day, our government makes decisions that affect our lives. If women vote, Washington will listen. Still need a reason to vote? Try these. Women struggle to manage work and family responsibilities.

Most women with young children work outside the home, and childcare is under funded.

Women confront unique challenges in affording and getting health care. Women lack health insurance that covers their needs. Women lack health insurance that covers their needs.

Women depend more on Social Security income than men do. One in five single women age sixty-five and older is poor.

Federal judges are making decisions every day that cut back on women's legal rights. The average length of time justices spend on the Supreme Court is more than twenty-five years.

Women need federal support to expand- not limit- reproductive health services. Last year, the Supreme Court allowed the federal government to override the medical decisions made by a woman and her doctor.

Women face unequal pay and other discrimination on the job. Women still make, on average, only 78 cents per every dollar paid to men.

Women lack equal opportunities and access to affordable, quality education. Girls are dropping out of high school at an alarming rate.

The wealthy and powerful few are enjoying tax cuts, while funding for women's priorities is being cut. Millionaires get on average a tax cut over $130,000 this year, while almost a quarter of single mother families get nothing at all.

Remember, if women vote, Washington will listen. REGISTER. VOTE. For more on what's at stake for women in 2008.

The National Women's Law Center is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has been working to advance and protect women's legal rights since 1972. NWLC takes no position on candidates or elections, and nothing herein should be construed as an endorsement of any candidate or party. The song featured in this video, Green Forest, is by artist Aaron Derington. For more on what's at stake for women in 2008, visit www.nwlc.org/Vote08.