 BPW State & National Information:
Metropolitan
Metropolitan BPW is one of three Local Organizations (LO)
serving the Charlotte metropolitan area; the others are Charlotte
and East Mecklenburg. These three LOs are part of BPW/North
Carolina's District III, which also includes Concord/Cabarrus,
Mooresville/North Mecklenburg, Salisbury and Winston-Salem.
BPW/NC
Headquartered in Carboro, BPW/NC was founded in Charlotte
in 1919 as the eighth Southern state to join the National
Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. In
1920, it became one of the founding members of the North Carolina
Legislative Council. It formed a Legislation Committee in
1956, and in 1959, helped to shepherd passage of bills providing
for minimum wage and inheritance laws.
Visit http://bpwnc.localweb.com
for more information about our state federation.
BPW/USA
With more than 2,000 LOs across the country, BPW/USA is one
of the most powerful advocacy groups for working women in
the nation. The National Federation of Business and Professional
Women's Clubs Inc. was founded in 1919 as the first national
association for business and professional women to coordinate
the women's effort during World War I.
BPW/USA worked with President Herbert Hoover to establish
the first National BusinessWomen's Week celebration in 1928.
Nine years later, BPW became the first women's organization
to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). During the 1960s,
BPW/USA led the fights for Title IX (equity in education),
prohibition of sexual harassment and passage of the ERA.
The Business and Professional Women's Foundation, established
in 1956, provides financial assistance to women seeking education
to advance their careers or to re-enter the workforce. It
has awarded more than $5 million in educational scholarships,
grants and loans to more than 8,000 women nationwide. The
Foundation also collects, conducts and analyzes research on
issues affecting women in the workplace.
For more information about BPW/USA, visit www.bpwusa.org.
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