| 词条 | Older Women's League |
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| name = Older Women's League | native_name = | native_name_lang = | named_after = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | logo = OWL The Voice of Women 40 Plus.png | logo_size = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | map = | map_size = | map_alt = | map_caption = | map2 = | map2_size = | map2_alt = | map2_caption = | abbreviation = | motto = | predecessor = | merged = | successor = | formation = 1980 | founder = | founding_location = | extinction = {{end date and age|2017|03|15}} | merger = | type = | tax_id = | registration_id = | status = | purpose = Women's rights | headquarters = Washington, D.C., U.S. | location = | coords = | region = | services = | products = | methods = | fields = | membership = | membership_year = | language = | owner = | sec_gen = | leader_title = President | leader_name = Margaret Hellie Huyck, Ph.D. | leader_title2 = Vice President | leader_name2 = Janet Pitt | leader_title3 = Treasurer | leader_name3 = Joan Bernstein, J.D. | leader_title4 = | leader_name4 = | board_of_directors = | key_people = | main_organ = | parent_organization = | subsidiaries = | secessions = | affiliations = | budget = | budget_year = | revenue = | revenue_year = | disbursements = | expenses = | expenses_year = | endowment = | staff = | staff_year = | volunteers = | volunteers_year = | slogan = | mission = | website = {{URL|owl-national.org}} | remarks = | formerly = | footnotes = [1] }}OWL - The Voice of Women 40+ was founded as the Older Women's League by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, following the White House Mini-Conference on Older Women in Des Moines, Iowa in October 1980. The conference, called "Growing Numbers, Growing Force," addressed three main concerns: ensuring adequate income, health concerns of older women, and quality of life and the impact of aging.[2] About 200 women participants stayed on after the conference, at their own expense, to start the Older Women's League, an outgrowth of the Older Women's League Educational Fund, founded by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, and named Sommers as the first president of OWL.[3] In March 2017, it was reported that the national organization has decided to disband, but local chapters may continue to function under the OWL name or possibly another name.[1] MissionOWL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, national membership organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that advocates for the estimated 78 million women in the U.S. who are age 40 and over.[4] Its core issues are economic and retirement security, encore careers and entrepreneurship, wellness, cost-effective and comprehensive health care, Social Security, and long-term care.[5] How OWL worksAdvocacy is carried out through:
Membership dues and donations, and grants from foundations and corporations are OWL’s prime funding sources. OWL has successfully advocated for legislation, including the Retirement Equity Act and a law allowing widows to continue using their spouses' health insurance.[6] In the 1980s, OWL formed a planning group with the National Women's Health Network, the American Association of University Women, the National Black Women's Health Project and other organizations to establish a women's agenda for health care reform. In 1990, OWL allowed the newly created Campaign for Women's Health to have space in its Washington D.C. offices.[7] References1. ^1 {{cite news |last=Amati |first=Christopher |url=http://hpherald.com/2017/03/15/national-owl-disbands-local-chapter-to-continue/ |title=National OWL disbands, local chapter to continue |work=Hyde Park Herald |date=2017-03-15 |accessdate=2017-03-28 }} 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Rausa|first1=Bettina A.|title=Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health|date=2008|publisher=Springer|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0-387-33753-1|pages=603–604|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rTMrB0AutLwC&lpg=PA603&dq=%22Older%20Women's%20League%22%20-wikipedia&pg=PA603#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 3. ^Chimes of Change and Hours: Views of Older Women in Twentieth-century America by Audrey Borenstein. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, Jan 1, 19 4. ^Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Selected Age Groups by Sex for the United States, States, Counties, and Puerto Rico Commonwealth and Municipios: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013; U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Heinemann|first1=Sue|title=Timelines of American Women's History|date=1996|publisher=Berkley Pub. Group|location=New York|isbn=978-0-399-51986-4|page=163|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kjkZjvnI-sC&lpg=PA163&dq=%22Older%20Women's%20League%22%20-wikipedia&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Cullen-DuPont|first1=Kathryn|title=Encyclopedia of Women's History in America|date=2000|publisher=Facts On File|location=New York|isbn=978-1-4381-1033-2|page=193|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oIro7MtiFuYC&lpg=PA193&dq=%22Older%20Women's%20League%22%20-wikipedia&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=Older Women's League}} 7. ^{{cite book|last1=Weisman|first1=Carol S.|title=Women's Health Care: Activist Traditions and Institutional Change|date=1998|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|location=Baltimore|isbn=978-0-8018-5826-0|page=210|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wPpOq-CLn0C&lpg=PA210&dq=%22Older%20Women's%20League%22%20-wikipedia&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=Transforming Women's Health Care Policymaking}} External links
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