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Business and Professional Women The Leading Advocate for Working women.
Welcome to our Renton Business and Professional Women Organization (BPW) web site.
BPW was founded in 1919, promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy,
education and information. With 1,500 Local Chapters across the country and members in
every congressional district, BPW/USA is the leading advocate for millions of workingwomen
on work-life balance and workplace equity issues. BPW Local Organizations provide members
with professional development programs, networking, participation in grassroots activism,
and opportunities to support scholarships for disadvantaged women.
One of the first women's organizations to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment in 1937,
BPW/USA has been a successful leader in promoting and supporting legislation affecting
workingwomen ever since. In addition, BPW educates its members on policy issues and provides
them the tools to become effectively involved on policy issues and provides them the tools to
become effectively involved in policy development in their own workplaces and in grassroots efforts at the local,
state and federal levels. BPW/USA members not only work at the grassroots level, but support their beliefs financially.
BPW Political Action Committee (BPW/PAC) provides contributions and endorsements to women and pro-women federal
candidates who support the BPW legislative agenda.
Renton BPW will be having their Networking Event at Emerald Downs on July 24, 2009.
Doors open at 4 PM - Dinner served at 7 p.m.
This is where you get to know about our MEMBERSHIP and more about each
other.
We have a GREAT time. It is open to anyone who wants to join us.
Please bring your friends/family/and spouse.