Mayor Eric Adams is aiming to cement the city as a national leader on gender equity with a $43 million investment.
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“You can’t do it, you’re not going to deal with the pink elephant in the room that people want to ignore,” said Adams at a. “We have not been a user-friendly city, country, or globe to women. No matter where I go across the globe, I see the same common denominator of treating women as second-class citizens.”
The Women Forward plan aims to build a pipeline toward higher-wage jobs by providing funding to the Girl Scouts of Greater New York Troop 6000, which is made up of young girls in city shelters; providing career opportunity programs for public housing residents to start their own food or childcare business; and expanding mentoring initiatives. It also plans to address inequities in sexual, chronic, and maternal and reproductive health, said the city.
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