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Why Is Women 100 Needed Now? To Create a Tipping Point in the Quest for Gender Equality
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – granting half the population the right to vote – led to a century of progress for women. However, achieving economic, social and political equality with men is unfinished business.
In the quest for gender equality, Vision 2020 intends for Women 100 to be a tipping point – the critical point after which unstoppable change takes place. A Voter Mobilization campaign during 2020 will encourage women to vote in record numbers in the 2020 national election.
Suffragists casting votes in 1920. (Library of Congress photo)
What is Vision 2020? A National Coalition Acting to Achieve Women’s Equality
Vision 2020 – headquartered at Drexel University’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership – is a nonpartisan national women’s equality coalition.
Working with hundreds of Delegates and Allied Organizations with millions of members, Vision 2020 is speeding up the pace of progress to complete the unfinished business of women’s equality.
Since it started in 2010, Vision 2020 has been hosting programs and events to elevate Four Pillars of Equality (see box). To learn more about Vision 2020, please visit Drexel.edu/vision2020.
Vision 2020’s Four Pillars of Equality
Youth Education: Educate young people to value gender equality and shared leadership
Economic Parity: Advance women’s economic security by closing the gender gap in pay and retirement income
Civic Engagement: Increase the number of women who participate in the political process by voting and through public service.
Proud Partners of Women 100
Proud Partner organizations and institutions support women’s equality. Many are planning women-themed programs and events interspersed with Women 100 signature events in 2020. Partner programs and events are included on the Events page with links to more information, registration or ticket purchase. Interested in having your organization become a Women 100 Proud Partner? Fill out an application.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Historic Neighborhood Consortium
Women’s Skydiving Network Pro Team
Women’s Whistle Stop Scranton
Women 100 Advisory Committee
Frances Wolf
Honorary Co-Chair, Vision 2020’s Women 100, First Lady of Pennsylvania
Rosemarie Greco
Executive Advisor, Vision 2020
Dianne Semingson
Co-Chair, Vision 2020’s Women 100
Susan Taylor, MD
Co-Chair, Vision 2020’s Women 100
Lynn Yeakel
Founder and President, Vision 2020
Naomi L. Adler, Esq.
CEO, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
Renee Amoore
Founder and President, The Amoore Group, Inc.
David L. Cohen, JD
Senior Executive Vice President, Comcast Corporation
Julie Coker Graham
President & CEO, Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau
Peter J. Dean, PhD
President, Leaders By Design
James F. Dever, Jr.
Philadelphia Market President, Bank of America
Anne Ewers
President and CEO, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Cecelia Fitzgibbon
President, Moore College of Art & Design
John A. Fry
President, Drexel University
Rev. Bill Golderer
President and CEO, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
Juliet Goodfriend
President, Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Janet Haas, MD
Chair, William Penn Foundation
Michael Innocenzo
President and CEO, PECO
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, PhD
Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania
Hon. Jim Kenney
Mayor of Philadelphia
Meryl Levitz
Former President and CEO, Visit Philadelphia
Connie L. Lindsey
Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility and Global Diversity and Inclusion, Northern Trust
Cynthia MacLeod
Superintendent, Independence National Historical Park
William J. Marrazzo
President and CEO, WHYY Inc.
Eileen McDonnell
Chairman and CEO, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Jami Wintz McKeon
Partner and Chair, Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Rosalyn J. McPherson
President and Founder, The ROZ Group
Leslie Anne Miller
Chair, Philadelphia Museum of Art Board of Trustees
Hon. Michael A. Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
B. LaRae Orullian
Former President, Girl Scouts of the USA
Founding President and Former CEO, Women’s Bank of Denver
Pedro A. Ramos
President and CEO, The Philadelphia Foundation
Siobhan Reardon
President and Director, Free Library of Philadelphia
Hon. Barbara Roberts
Former Governor of Oregon
Jeffrey Rosen
President and CEO, National Constitution Center
Molly D. Shepard
President & CEO, The Leader’s Edge
Vince Stango
COO, National Constitution Center
David Thornburgh
President and CEO, Committee of Seventy
Rob Wonderling
President and CEO, The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
Yvonne Wood
Immediate Past Chair, Tennessee Economic Council on Women
Eric A. Zillmer
Director of Athletics, Drexel University
Visionary Leaders Committee
The Visionary Leaders Committee was founded to gain support and sponsorship for the events being hosted by Vision 2020 beginning on February 29, 2020. The Committee is chaired by Molly D. Shepard, Peter J. Dean and Jeanie Heffernan. Members of the Committee are outstanding citizens of our community who support the initiative and women’s efforts for equality in business and government.
Co-Chairs
Peter Dean
Leader’s Edge/Leaders by Design
Jeanie Heffernan
Independence Blue Cross
Molly Shepard
Leader’s Edge/Leaders by Design
Members
Nick Araco
Achieve NEXT/The CEO Alliance
Amanda Bruno
Morgan Lewis
Karen Buchholz
Comcast
Terese Casey
National Consultant to Vision 2020
Joe Coradino
PREIT
Lisa Crutchfield
Hudson Strategic Advisors
Tracy Davidson
NBC10
Amy Goldman
Radnor School Board Member
Rosemarie Greco
Executive Advisor to Vision 2020
Carole Haas Gravagno
CHG Charitable Trust
Mindy Holman
Holman Automotive
Michelle Hong
Brown Brothers Harriman
Mike Innocenzo
PECO
Lisa Kabnick
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Holly Kinser
The Kinser Group
Charisse Lillie
Corporate Board Member
Ashley Lunkenheimer
AmeriHealth Caritas
Kyra McGrath
WHYY
Jill Michal
Solera Health
Leslie Miller
Philadelphia Museum of Art
LaRae Orullian
Banker, Former President Girl Scouts USA
Shelley Potente
Leader’s Edge/Leaders by Design
Anne Pramaggiore
Retired Exelon Executive, Exelon
Lori Reiner
EisenAmper
Susan Rock
The Rock School for Dance
Nancy Rogers
Lincoln Financial Group
Colleen Rooney
Former CMO, QVC
Bill Sasso
Stradley Ronon
RoseAnn Scanlon
Corporate Board Member
Dianne Semingson
DLS International
Cathy Sohn
Corporate Board Member
Judy Spires
KBUS Holdings
Jane Stimmler
The Marketing Edge
Tiffany Tavarez
Wells Fargo
David Unruh
Drexel University
Judee von Seldeneck
Diversified Search
Suzanne Weintraub
Suzanne Weintraub Voiceovers
Dalila Wilson-Scott
Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation
Stephanie Zarus
Avancer Group
Eric Zillmer
Drexel University
National Leadership Circle
Frank Aquila
New York
Deborah Brittain
Florida
Ron Coley
California
Will Collins
New York
Ruth Ann Gillis
Illinois
Rosemarie Greco
Pennsylvania
Karen Kaplowitz
Pennsylvania
Karen Kaplowitz
Pennsylvania
Roberta Liebenberg
Pennsylvania
Connie Lindsey
Illinois
Joanne Murray
Pennsylvania
Barbara Roberts
Oregon
Rob Robertson, Jr.
Washington, D.C.
Sidney Rosenblatt
New Jersey
Dianne Semingson
Pennsylvania
Mark Steinman
Pennsylvania
Alexia Ward
Ohio
Renee White
Massachusetts
Lynn Yeakel
Pennsylvania
Voter Mobilization 2020
Let’s Break the Record for Women Voter Turnout!
Vision 2020 is leading a nonpartisan effort to get women across America registered and voting in the 2020 national elections. At all Women 100 events, Vision 2020 will offer voter registration.