​2017 Legislative Agenda

• Paid Family and Medical Leave
  
• Labor and Sex Trafficking
  
• Fair Chance Initiatives
  
• Pay Equity
  
• Healthy Sexuality

78% Ratio of Connecticut women's to men's earnings (2014)

57,785 Connecticut domestic violence victims are served by state service providers (2014) 

​31% of female-headed families with children under 18 are living below the poverty line (2015)

​70%  of seniors on Medicaid are women because women are disproportionally poorer and live longer than men (2015)

28.3% of the seats in the Connecticut General Assembly

are held by women (2015)

432Child victims of human trafficking in Connecticut since 2006, but only 28 cases have been prosecuted.

Permanent Commission

​We are former state commissionersand key employeesof the abolished

state agency known as the Connecticut Permanent

Commission on the Status

of Women.

PCSW is a new non-profit initiativeto advance the workof the former state agency tasked with advocating for women and girls across
​a range of critical issues.

PCSW will provide research, expertise, resources and advocacy
in order to improve the lives of women and girls in Connecticut.

​ on the Status of Women in Connecticut​

The leading advocate for women and girls in Connecticut