Support the Growth Act

The GROWTH Act will provide solid, realistic steps to expand options for poor women by securing jobs, accessing credit and starting new businesses. It promotes women’s ability to start and grow businesses through continued support for women’s enterprises after the initial microcredit loan, so their businesses will grow and employ other women. The Act enhances women’s land and property rights so they can use their assets as collateral for loans, and increases women’s access to better employment and improve wages and working conditions for jobs dominated by women by increasing women’s skills and informing them of their legal rights in the workplace.  The Act also ensures that the benefits of trade agreements reach poor women in developing countries through programs like trade capacity building and training for women entrepreneurs. Ask Congress to please support steps to strengthen economic opportunity for women by co-sponsoring the GROWTH Act.

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