The NFBPWC National Advocacy Platform is shown here: NFBPWC Advocacy Platform 2024-2026
BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN OF COLORADO
ADVOCACY PLATFORM 2025-2026
BPW will employ education, advocacy, monitoring, and tracking strategies to meet the following priorities:
Equal Rights - The Alice Paul Equal Rights Amendment shall stand first and foremost above all other items of the advocacy platform until Equal Rights have been guaranteed in the United States Constitution – i.e. “Equality of Rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
Economic Equity and Justice
- Access to pay equity and retirement equity.
- Access to education, training, and promotional opportunities.
- Access to equal opportunities in the workplace and corporate boards.
- Access to women business enterprise procurement process.
- Access to quality, affordable dependent care (child, elderly or disabled).
- Access to funding and capital for entrepreneurial activity.
- Access to affordable and attainable housing.
- Disallow forced arbitration as a sole means of dispute resolution.
Health Equity and Justice
- Access to affordable care for all, especially reproductive healthcare, including contraception and legal abortion care.
- Reproductive choice.
- Paid sick leave.
- Family and medical leave.
- Equal research funding for women’s and girl’s health issues.
- Prevention of pregnancy and infant care discrimination in the workplace (reasonable accommodations for breast feeding/breast pumping and pregnancy related conditions).
- Ensure workplace safety.
- Expansion of mental health coverage and services.
Human Rights – recognition that women’s rights are human rights
- Eradicate domestic violence and the electronic and physical stalking, sexual harassment, sexual abuse and discrimination.
- Oppose human trafficking, sexual exploitation and slavery.
- Equal education opportunity, including adequate funding of public education, preschool through postsecondary.
- Support equal rights for LGBTQ+ persons.
- Support equal treatment of and end discrimination against all women, especially BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color), minority, and marginalized women.
- Support policies and practices that promote environmental sustainability.
- Support the endeavors of and improve conditions for military-affiliated women.
- Support equitable treatment of women in the criminal justice system, including health and hygiene
- Support gun sense measures to protect lives and ensure safety.
- Support the protection and equitable treatment of all immigrants and those seeking refuge.
- Support the privacy rights of women, especially regarding their health, sexual and relationship history, and personal and digital data.