importantly for purposes of the website essential additional information to direct you to the actual agency's statistical page that collects the data about women for that statistical agency and under each of these there is substantial additional resources so for example this is the demographic page. if you go to all the drop down things you will see in addition to what is in the data report you have a lot of indicators and these come from a number of agencies. so the demographic information is very much the department of commerce to develop labor statistics and information relating to the age of first marriage, children, and at one point i really want you to go through this yourself. you will see a lot of information but i wonder how one point it is not in the report among many on the web site.

family status and household relationships. if you click on this first link, the cohabitation link it takes you to the data agency's page. the first time all this data across the federal government to be assembled on one side. it will take you directly to this other site. that was working a minute ago. that particular study talks about cohabitation and one of the findings of that report which is currently being updated, that suggests more women and men and now cohabit before marriage ban get married straight away. 23% of men married without cohabiting. interesting facts like that you will find interspersed throughout this report. all right. un don't know how to get out of

the smell. can we get out of this? but don't know how to back up here. sorry. can't see that. they're ago. ok, great. it would be better -- okay. keep doing that. great. if you go up as the mentioned, each of the five areas of the report have a different statistical compendium. as far as the education report you see the length of the data agency, especially the national science foundation which has a

lot of data and stem related issues. they have two reports that are related to women and really extensive listing of additional data that is available. one thing the want to point out is on the financial assistance point. women, with the they're pursuing undergraduate degrees, are more likely to seek financial assistance when pursuing lose degrees but in science and engineering the reverse is true. if you click on these charts that information becomes apparent. of the employment related charts the department of labour has for more than a century collected extensive data on the labour market. just giving you a flavor of the vast number of links available in each of these areas. and again go through this one in particular. the same one on health.

the principal source of statistics is cdc and the national center for health statistics. we have a lot of statistics unlike expectancy, mortality, fertility, and you will see a lot of information about birth rates, breast-feeding, average age of mothers giving birth, health conditions. i encourage you to spend some time going through this. there are some interesting statistics on mental health. crime and violence again, these indicators dropped down. most of these are from the bureau of justice statistics. a lot of information in particular i would highlight the cost of violence against women. if you click on this he will see health services for domestic violence and sexual assault.

and the health side as well as the justices decide on those kinds of statistics. the purpose of this broad data report, not just report the bindle and web site is to further president obama's commitment to evidence based policymaking. when the cal was formed at the beginning of the administration with our function within statistics began working in order to compile the data resources of the federal government as they relate to women. to provide useful information to federal officials in all agencies and provide information in terms of prioritizing budgetary and policymaking resources a evaluating how they are working. the web site is a work in progress which we very much encourage you to give us insight into as we continue to make it better. we really want to have one central compendium that makes it easy for policymakers and researchers to work with

government to partner with us in helping identify the policies that can impact the lives of women. that initiative is part of the broader goal. in the course of preparing the report and putting data together on the web site we realize there are some gaps, and overwhelmingly the feeling akin away from was the overwhelming federal statistical resources. they did an extraordinary amount of work collecting interesting data. we found a few gaps with respect to collection of data on women. this morning president obama issued a memorandum to agencies handed out in the back which i hope you have in front of you where he encourages of agencies to continue to work together to identify gaps status collection of women and seek to address them. the council on women and girls has been working with a number of agencies to address data collection issues related to

work family life balance, pay equity, domestic violence. a lot of those efforts are underway. the president highlighted three additional efforts i hope agencies will continue work on. one is mortality statistics. since 2003 these have been collected for a long time but the ability to formulate a national statistic with respect to mortality rate has been limited and registration areas with transition to different legal records collection system. so the national center for health statistics is encouraged to work as they have been with dates and registration areas to complete the transmission so that good accurate maternal health is once again gathered on a national basis. the security and exchange commission to work with data collection to supplement them in order to collect data on women

and corporate leadership. finally the president asks a federal agency to work on collecting data in public life. the council of women and girls has already been working and the president specifically asked us to continue to project forward. i want to thank becky and her team which brought the report to a reality and kathy and her team, and the data on the web site. they continue to refund the project. [applause] >> a thank you for posting a us.

and executive director. we celebrate the report, a special pleasure to do it with a combination of this project. has the president said, in order to do this, this is going to get the message across the federal government that every part of the federal government -- everything we do affects the lives of women and girls in some way and it worked together to do that and the collaborative effort that preeta bansal lead and all of our agencies really demonstrates the strength of

that and power in numbers that we have with every one concentrating on it. to report illustrates the data. not news to those of us in the room that women are getting more educated and more in the work force and paid less, i think the incredible coverage we have got this week which i have to think the white house can the director of the white house, really spearheading. we had another opportunity to get the information out from the public because clearly people haven't got that sense or get paychecks through and get the message across. it really demonstrates how important and meaningful to live the american women and their families, their husbands and children, economic security of women are. even as we increase our

education level, there is disparity and continuing disparity is the real issue. the data informs a lot of things we're doing like health care. the kranick health disease experience of women. most of you know how women experience problems with the existing health care system. these are the things the american public needs to understand, what the impact is on women and families and how things like policy change and the administration really address those issues. is intended to prevent obesity and heart disease and diabetes and to get those -- meaningful

health care for forty million americans who don't have health care today to address this issue. having the data out there is important and finally, just touch again under a -- another issue as preeta bansal was a particular interest, working across many agencies and that worked and flexibility. the other piece as heather boushey noted, the shriver report last year in this report continues, slide on how women had hoped and their cars and demonstrates what many of us know from our own personal lives, challenges are balancing demands of work and home, not just when you have young children but older children and elderly parents. and you are trying to go back to get education, this is not just

a women's issue but the president and first lady talked about in issue that affects the entire family, men instead of women. men want to get to the soccer games and men are disabled, some kind of flexibility in their work. it is not just an issue for the middle part of the work force. preeta bansal said those at the top of the business, all the way down to the line workers, there is no current issue facing our work force that has that universality. men, women, older, younger, top of the weight scale and bottom of the weight scale and everything in between. very much as we move forward with our initiative in the federal government to get the federal agencies that more -- to have our conversation the department of labour is having around the country, two or four major conversations people as the private sector steps up we

pursue it -- we're on the threshold of reorganized work and the way we do work in a fundamental way. we have technology that enables 9-5 solely, not to work rigidly but reorganize work in a way that will be more meaningful and adapted to the needs of the work force. and the end of the day we will be more competitive. it will result in better results, less turnover rates, more longevity in the work force people to the better retirement transitions, better knowledge transfer, it is very exciting and this report -- with that let me turn to our panel and make sure we have time for questions as well. i am joined by heather boushey, our host, lynn rosenthal, our first ever white house adviser on violence against women, ana

harvey, i want to get the title right, assistant administrator for women, ownership and the sba and really another big piece of this report. avis jones-deweever is one of our great partners who asks me to do things. always with a smile. i enjoy that. she is executive director of the council of women. really a stalwart and -- for women of color throughout the world. and barbara gault, executive director and vice president of women's policy research. i will start with barbara gault. i don't know if heidi hartmann is here but she is one of the first meetings i had upon the white house years ago was with barbara and heidi and one of the

first things people asked me to do that occurred was they were really great if we could have all the data about women in the federal government in one place and here it is. your observations about why that is important. >> i am happy to do that. thank you for the report. it is beautiful. has a data lover myself i am -- it is a happy day for me. it is important to bring the data together on all of these issues affecting women today because it helps us to really begin a conversation about how the various struggles and challengess women face, how they interplay with one another. will get the wage gap. we have been stuck for a while now. we haven't made progress. if you look at the public debate, people looking for very simple solutions. we just need to negotiate

better. women need to make better choices. some of that may be true but if you look at this report, if you look at labor within the home you can see that if women are spending more time taking care of the kids and the house work that gives them less time to devote to being a superstar on the job. a woman has a chronic health condition, that will affect her performance on the job. education affect earnings tremendously. these factors interrelate. we all have a role to play. we are stuck. we can't keep spinning the wheels of the vehicle. we have to get out and start pushing. all of our institutions need to do something. women need to start coming together and saying a half hour per day is all i need. 20 minutes of rest. we need some more of that

individual level, communal level, coming together and pushing the movement. all kinds of organizations can make a difference. this report presents shocking data on stalking. very common. that has an impact on women who are trying to get to work today and feel safe and calm in the air circumstances. many businesses are trying to do something about it. hospitals are doing something about it. we really need to come together and look at these issues as a whole and think about how we can push and make all these pieces fit together to make that difference and get to the point where we don't have 28% of single working moms in poverty. we can do better than that where we don't see that african-american work harder than everyone else and get paid less than everyone else. we can do better and it is time to move. data like the start the

conversation and allows us to look at where we really are, a hard look and start working together to make a change. >> following up on that, what thoughts do you have on why this is important and how we can prove data on the collection data and any ideas on the policy? >> thank you for the question. great question. we have a couple ideas. first of all, some of the things -- can't remember who said it, there is a wide array of data available that points to all these policies things. one of the areas we haven't seen enough information is the issues you were talking about. we were very excited when we found out the department of labor for the first time in a decade will study the implementation of the family medical leave act, the first

bill that addresses workplace flexibility in the modern era. we did a survey in 1995 and one in 2000. i can tell you how many people are eligible and pick it up because we don't have enough. whig is exciting but what we would like to see is because it is the case that the vast majority of mothers are breadwinners for their families and they don't have the state-owned care giver this is the data we need to be tracking every year. i would argue every month. these are the kinds of things we should be tracking with our regular labour force data. the second thing the administration is doing is the american survey, adding a new model around workplace flexibility. a new module. that is fantastic. we are going to know a lot more about what people of access do but we are not going to know on a regular basis how many people are eligible or using the family

medical leave act or how many people are eligible for the medical leave to be, how many people using medical leave in california and new jersey. we could add one little follow-up question, it would just say if you were not at work last week was it because you were on family medical leave for paid sick time? was it paid or unpaid? release small. i understand in the world of data that that is an enormously heavy lifting. we are doing all this policy innovation, campaigns around the country, we need information to make the case why this is important and what it means. >> one of the things we said about how women of color continue, talk about what the report says about women of color which are evidenced in the report. >> this is the best of times and

the worst of times all at the same time. we are seeing things that are very similar like other women. we are excelling in education, we are doing very well particularly in terms of higher education but in the real world of getting paid, we're left behind on mail counterparts and as it relates to other women as well. we have a long way to go. one disturbing area was health information. we lag far behind as far as diseases that were mentioned earlier like diabetes and hypertension and depression. more likely to indicate they perfect as of depression as compared to other women. those things are striking. when i looked at what happened as relating to the labour market in recent years we see we have been particularly impacted by the great recession. look at how other women have

been impacted, increases in labor force participation most recently and that has happened, we saw a huge drop in employment but i argue it is not just that session but our labor force did to -- participation rate dropped for the first time in recent history even though we have higher rates than other women. has done down when we saw participation among other women went up and disproportionately high level labor force participation we are most likely so our wages lag far behind every level of education. there's a lot more we have to do and we're working hard and doing all right things, going to college and getting degrees but we are out in the field and not being treated fairly. >> the other thing i noticed in the report as we were putting it together, where we don't have this, even though we have the

data overall we don't have that data. to break this down so you can see the picture of women of color. >> still have a need for that as it relates to asian-american women and as it relates to american indians not even included in this report so we definitely need more help in that. >> not all data is good data. it doesn't always come together in right way. important data regarding violence has struggled in that area. >> one thing i want to say about this report is the approach not just on how women are experiencing violence but the way women experience and recover from violence is connected to employment and education so it is a full picture of women's lives. the report does show that the act of 1994, annual incidents of

domestic violence has dropped 50%. the intervention that vice-president biden created effectively tells us the model created in the violence against women act that brings people together at the local level, prosecutors and victims' services to address violence women are experiencing work that when we find these efforts to coordinate on the local level we see better case outcomes and news and we also know today that another hallmark which is victims services and connecting victims with violence shelters and hotlines and outreach services make a difference in their lives. department of health and human services recently conducted a survey of 3,000 victims in eight state and emergency domestic violence shelters and found women in shelters overwhelmingly

90% reported they are -- their connection with victims services made them feel more hopeful about their future and set goals for themselves and their children and understand more about their options and we know some of these services are connected with abuse. so in the data where we see this reduction in domestic violence we see success of the violence against women act. this takes us a little back in time and puts a human face. i want to tell you a little story about a woman i know named cindy who was battered in 1975. she was newly married legal experience severe abuse, her husband beat her with a metal plate in a public street in the middle of the day, broad daylight. nobody intervened to help. she went to the emergency room many times. she was too embarrassed to say

what happened to her. the of the health care providers that how were these caused an or rice field injuries on your body, she called the police many times. they came to her door and said what did you do to make him so mad? every time she reached out for people people blame her and allowed the offender to escape accountability. i interviewed cindy ten years after the violence against women act and said what does it mean to you that we have ten years of violence? she said when i was going through this i was completely alone. every, reached out for people's help they told me it was my fault. shea sino is different today but that is how it was for me and followed me the rest of my life. but today because of the violence against women act, somebody like cindy would have a very different story to tell. when the law enforcement officer came to her door he or she would interview the parties, collect

evidence, write a report, probable cause, when cindy went to the emergency room the nurse and physician would be trained to ask about all those injuries they saw on her body and talked her privately and link her up with services and one of the pieces of her story that i didn't mention was he finally fled the violence after she was so severely battered that she spent a month in the hospital but she left the hospital completely on her own and was homeless. because of the programs and the violence against women act and federal services somebody like cindy would find transitional housing and services and support to help her recover. i tell her story. it is a little different from what we have been talking about. are tell her story because it puts a woman's face on what we are seeing and tells us a little about what this reduction in violence means in women's lives. the want to say what we need to know more about. the data in this report shows

the reduction in domestic violence, comes from the crime victimization survey. it is part of an omnibus survey of different clients so it may not capture all the incidents of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. the bureau of justice statistics are working on this. they understand the need for more specialized methodology to capture data in these sensitive areas and we support those efforts and work with them to make that happen. i should also say we need more dog -- more data to understand intervention for women of color. we need to understand what interventions are most effective. we know and practice from the local level that getting funding and services closed to the ground and the hand of community-based organizations rooted in culture and community is what works but we need more

research and data to understand. we have very good news in this report but there is much we need to learn and much work to do in this area. >> thank you for reminding us it is not all those numbers on a page. what we do really affect individual women in that way. you were all pointing out what we need to get to q and a. the main thing is putting a report together that shines a light on all of those gaps, affects real women in their real lives. i want to turn to ana harvey. this is a follow-on of a report from the console of women and girls. there it is. last year, it was so terrific and pulled together and documented women owned

businesses. the rise of women and businesses. and the economic struggle. that is something ana harvey works on. what does it mean about the lives of women and what to look forward to? >> a perfect example, this policy in a good piece of legislation in society, start thinking about 1974. only 5% of privately owned companies in the united states were owned by women and then the legislation, that will allow women to actually seek loans without a male cosigner. then we all got off of this opening business. 30% of companies are owned by

women. i am going to start to look at this report. 7 point gain, eight million and by women. in terms of $1.2 trillion is an economic force and talking about jobs all the time. 77.6 workers. women really became an economic force. are we where we want to be? of course not. we want to create more jobs. what do we need to do? women are finding difficulty. it is very difficult. we want to find out what it is. is it because they don't see this? is it because it is difficult and they are protected? we are focusing on women, opening their businesses and we

have a wonderful network of women business centers and only last year 110 women centers trained 160,000 women in the country. we really wanted to learn how to become independent in their own business. it relates to what you were saying about putting african-american women out of poverty and also that sense of coming out of that situation just knowing that the economic investigation by opening the business, really with anyone and. in many cases like myself, i chose to open my business because i wanted to be home with my children. that allowed me -- relief focused on everything and we need to focus on women really

getting prepared to handle this. we want to prepare them to grow the runway and find ways. we're pushing for women every way we can to make sure they have creating their own economic prosperity. >> i want you to say something about the women in business world. >> we are proud of this. we have a little -- from bakeries to by tea companies and everything in between. and ten years, 11 years. the federal government is a market that is there. the state is not going anywhere. we went to women to be part of that market. whenever they have in the federal government.

for ten years we have a goal. 5% of whatever. difficult to women. we haven't been able to achieve it. for many reasons that don't make much sense. like a study that really wanted to show where is it that women are underrepresented by the federal government? that study really found out that women are underrepresented -- the ones that really traumatized me. all terrain vehicle sales. everything else women were doing fine. i don't even remember. a small business under that i

was really, the first thing they wanted to do, to see how this would be corrected. so took ten years for this rule for women to reach 5% and go nowhere. it took ten months. that reinterpreted the study and opens the field for women in about 83 -- duly translated 300 agencies. one thing that is fantastic that women could compete among themselves in these programs, so that two of us compete which is fair. we want to compete. we want to make sure it is a level playing field.

so it is groundbreaking. we are leaving for seattle right now. women are extremely happy that we're just asking for a fair share. we will reach that and keep pushing up but finally after a decade when it will compete and we are very happy about that. >> we have time for questions from the floor. sandy will help with the microphone. raise your hand and i will try to be fair. >> if you could state your name. >> thank you. >> i am with the national women's health network. i want to thank you for the report on evidence based for our health advocacy. it is incredibly important.

one of the things i want to comment on in terms of network's support, we have been working to raise awareness about the benefits to women and working on raising forces campaigned to gear up for the 1-year anniversary and in doing that we launched our contraception intervention campaign. we are awaiting the decision on no cost contraception but one of the areas this report raise the question is you comment on the impact of no cost contraception and you both mentioned the ability to -- women's ability to increase education and the impact on economic well-being and impacts all aspects of women's lives and. can you comment a little bit on this? we are awaiting that. >> we are also awaiting it.

with what the process within the affordable care act, to be successfully concluded in the affordable care act, in the prevention services rolled their -- to conclude that those surfaces that the u.s. task force has identified must be provided by an insurer at no cost to be a regular part of your insurance package. today right now the schedule for pediatric care includes baby care, child care, and adults, things like pap smears, garter belt, destinations. if you are planning a new insurance plan today, it needs to include it in terms of no co-pay. there is not in the u.s. provision services taskforce to protect women's comprehensive

health prevention standard. there are bits and pieces like pap smears and mammograms but no contraception care. is not fully and completely represented. the institute of medicine has been contacted to develop a scientific analysis, public hearings have been held on this to relieve develop that standard and develop basis for that standard. the report is due around august at which point the secretary of hhs will take those studies and make a determination as to what part of the standards, whether to accept the standard and what part will be applied in prevention services. we are awaiting that. talking about child spacing. >> thank you for what is going on in terms of the process.

if some of these studies -- i look at women's labor supply and earnings, one of the pivotal moments for women in terms of having control over their employment and careers was the inception of the birth control pill which allows women to be able to plan both education and career and a higher degree of certainty than they could have before that. if you care about women planning a career and timing families to coincide with when it makes sense for the new have to care about birth control written large. i would think it goes under preventative but no one is asking me. >> if you look at the overall trend that this report shows america is becoming an unmarried nation to a greater degree. we are marrying later and having children later in life. these are a necessity. things that are not only about women but men as well.

>> for people across class, this is something that everyone needs access to. professional women who want ph.d.s and put off having children down to women in their first starting to date and all this. the the things you need across class. >> question all the way in the back. >> i am annabel fisher. did a professional trained clinician. my question is the two part question. how large was your sample? and when you look at women in the work force, did you take into account the men and women coming back from the wars iraq, iran and afghanistan? which has absolutely changed their family situation, financial situation and the need which is quite important to look

at, both parents working or single-family, announcing change and the second thing i would like to ask in regards to domestic violence because i worked with women with domestic violence when the act was put into place but we are not talking about it. there are now more women -- is not the pc thing to discuss and talk about. is not appropriate for this conference but it has been reversed. women are now -- there's more domestic violence among women and that is interesting. thank you. >> let me ask becky to talk about it. >> i enjoyed seattle. say hi to gary locke. >> let me say each of these charts has a matching section intended for the report and you can look up where the data comes from.

all the different data sources with random samples are different depending on what the source is. there is not a single answer to your question. they are all representative and all the trends we show, requirements for decisions of significance that we would not have included. with regard to the question, we don't have anything here but there is information on the web site that talks about veteran status issues. >> if i might interject my new role, to the substance of your question, recent veterans and the reserve of military currently serving, particularly the administration of particular interest of the first lady, i will look within the next month to renew and expand initiative back to specifically support our

military support and returning veterans to military families. we hope you will join with us. the violence against women question. >> this is an important question to understand. the data from the fbi tells us 85% of the victims of entombment partner violence are female. this disproportionately affect women particularly if you look at parter homicide. tuned to% of partner homicides are women killed by male partners. but there are some measures that show equal acts of violence but when you put those in context and you survey and ask women what was happening you find many of those acts are committed out of self-defense. it is a complicated picture to the understand the importance to put the context around at.

they will expect exactly that. they will look at the context around the violence. one thing we know is when women experience violence, what we know, what research tells us is that men are more likely than women to use violence as a system of maintaining control within a family. the violence is only what you see. you might see the black eye and a broken bone but usually a part of a system of coercive control, intimidation, economic control. women are in poverty due to their experience with themselves and their children. when you put it in the context you see a different picture than just measuring actual acts and we also know that women are injured, seriously injured in domestic violence incidents seven times the rate of men. it is important to understand the full picture and that is

what we need to do. understand the full picture around how families are experiencing violence. to complicate things, we also know that there are the same rates of violence in gay and lesbian families as well. it is a complex issue. from the public policy perspective is important that we know that these are disproportionately affecting women. >> someone is in the back. >> my name is d. young. i appreciate the efforts to raise the women value but i think the important thing is a further picture is whether we really improve as a society or whether we improve as families or if you are talking about whether the data is really reliable or you can look into more of the data for instance

looking at the data and as a researcher and as a response a lot of this is unlawful and in the domestic violence, the real course of the violence, the third party to ruin their family and you proceed domestic courts, there are really a few to -- both men and woman. we look into that and you really improve and small-business, and everything a woman should have and i attend those.

the problem is really -- what i say is whatever you borrow money or you have your own savings or investment, or a millionaire or billionaire and will be all done and and no one will protect you. whether you are a man or a woman, they are not going to help a woman either. we have to investigate all those. >> the issue of the data as a starting point looking at that broad range of policy issues as we talk about on the panel, the reports is pointing to policy issues to get data and context and look more deeply.

there are couple questions. >> thank you. my name is bethany clark. i am national director based out of atlanta, georgia. putting the study together, my question is i have reviewed several studies that have been released and focusing and researching and the economic realities in this country. unfortunately was unveiled in this report as far as disparities continue to be consistent liege the bleak economic reality of women raising children on their own, i had an opportunity in 2009 to attend the president's fatherhood initiative in chicago.

my question is as we see studies like this continued to reveal the plight of single mothers in america are there any discussions around specific initiatives to really address these statistics and helping to improve quality of life for single women such as creating some type of initiative from the white house to really explore and bring to the table the women being impacted by this reality as opposed to having decisions made on our behalf by people who don't truly understand why single mothers end and the situation they are in. >> let me start with an important point statistic and something we're very concerned about.

one illustration of the policy, the broader policy with the population is even most recently in the tax package that was passed at the end of last year. an important part of what the economic team for. it went to the consideration of the bush tax fetch. it is really important to support women and children and to be stimulative to the economy as well. also the continuation and including lowering the stability of that when it endeds the to 3,000 with flexibility on that huge benefit. single mothers with children earning tax credit as well.

has there could explain it better than i can. on those levels we're very concerned and very focused on the population as evidenced by those policies. a lot of what we're trying to do with the small business administration and on tour for norship in many ways hasn't even talked about. >> the initiative that would benefit women. and to invest in small companies, to me that was ground breaking. big companies to see that definitely places coming together with several wikipedia -- civil liberties joined to look at comprehensive package that would benefit for example the deductions for health care

of a woman. if you put it together becomes a more complete package. >> i am happy raised that question. like you mentioned they are largely unchanged. we have seen these patterns for decades were single mothers have rates that are two three times that. this is a longstanding problem and it does deserve specific attention. but the political context in terms of what is going on with the comes to being able to maintain a level of funding that we have right now and a lot of those support mechanisms single mothers rely on for themselves and their children, i would argue to the degree that single mothers have banded together with other people who are

experiencing economic difficulty, don't forget about me. the reality is we seem to be almost laser like focused to the issue of deficit reduction the we are still in a society where the highest level of poverty as a nation since those statistics have been recorded. the highest level of insecurity that those statistics have been recorded so i would argue the emergency is quality of life of the american people today and not just the deficit reduction. we really need to be concerned about quality of life in the main area that needs a lot of focus. >> the administration's focus on providing opportunities through community colleges and secondary education to the public as a whole presented the opportunity

for single-parent. my organization has a new initiative that is trying to look at how institutions of higher learning provide support to single-parent so they can pursue high credentials over the long-term. that will have long-term economic impact. [inaudible] >> to see how we can collaborate. >> an opportunity to say for those of you with the the white house counsel, go on the web site and click on the council of girls page and you can read on your own the update by jennie kaplan who is right there in the

hallway and waving hands. so right behind you. >> thank you very much. one subject have not heard anything about in this report is speaking of quality of life, the environmental issue. women working in green businesses or starting green businesses. i am wondering if you have anything and women's habits there in regions of the and the. california and spot in this, we hear about it there but that necessarily mean statistically that is going unlike a dispatch of the the initiative to create

a green economy we need to know if this data so we can help boost >> there is so much we need to know given that the car newly emerging. the women's bureau has done a great job putting information on the web site but with these emerging industries it presents a new opportunity to not make an the same mistakes all over again about leaving women of high paying high quality job opportunities. you raise a very important issue. >> i saw nicole mason back there. organization of women of color policy never produced an outstanding record looking at that issue. >> it is 4:30. we are coming up on 1:30.

we don't want to waste time on friday afternoon. we are leading the charge on this amazing report. i did sort of open my remarks by saying the person responsible is the president. his vision and his commitment to women and children to -- how we got here today and how we are progressing on these issues. i am proud of him and our administration and i want to thank all of our panelists and the center for american progress for all the good work that you all do everyday in promoting a robust dialogue on these issues. thank you all for coming. [applause]