October 16, 2024
(Montpelier) –The Office of the Governor of Vermont has appointed Aleta Sprague of Dorset to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
Aleta Sprague is a researcher and attorney whose career has focused on how public policy can address inequality, poverty, and structural discrimination. In her current role at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center, Aleta leads legal analysis and communications and oversees a project portfolio examining the role of laws and policies in advancing or undermining social and economic equality, both within the U.S. and globally. Aleta has co-authored two books, over 20 peer-reviewed articles, and numerous opinion pieces in outlets including the Washington Post and the Atlantic. Her most recent book, Equality within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide (UC Press, 2023), explores how countries around the world are addressing critical topics including girls’ education, employment discrimination of all kinds, sexual harassment, and caregiving needs across the life course.
Previously, Aleta led research on how to design a more robust and racially just social safety net at New America, a public policy think tank. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Center for Health Justice, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that serves incarcerated people and those newly re-entering their communities. Aleta received her BA from NYU and her JD from UCLA School of Law, with a specialization in critical race studies. She lives in Dorset with her husband and two daughters, where she enjoys exploring local trails with her kids and their cousins, lifting heavy weights, and baking through the seasons.
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The Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) is an independent non-partisan state commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls. Sixteen volunteer commissioners and representatives from organizations concerned with women's issues guide VCW's public education, coalition building, and advocacy efforts.
(Montpelier) – Governor Phil Scott has appointed Delaney Courcelle of Rutland to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
(6/8/21) Virtual Event, Vermont – On Tuesday over the lunch hour, over 250 people gathered virtually for the launch of the new Leaders for Equity and Equal Pay (LEEP) Toolkit. The Toolkit is a unique and powerful DIY resource, containing an excel-based Equity Management Tool and a companion Playbook, that provides Vermont’s small to midsize employers with information and methodology needed to conduct in-house, ongoing gender and racial pay equity reviews.
When: Tuesday, June 8, 2021, from noon to 1:00 pm, ET
Who: Change The Story VT, a partnership initiative of Vermont Works for Women, Vermont Commission on Women, and the Vermont Women's Fund
Based on median earnings for full-time, year-round workers, women are paid 82 cents for every dollar paid to men. Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) presented the second in a series of (un)Equal Pay Day video podcast conversations on March 24th, the day into the year women need to work before their earnings catch up to those of men in 2020 due to the wage gap.
(Montpelier) - The Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) joins organizations nationwide in drawing attention to Equal Pay Day each year. Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into this year women must work to catch up to what the average white non-Hispanic man earned in the previous year.
(Montpelier) – Governor Scott has appointed Wendy Knight of Panton to serve a four-year term on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
Commissioner Knight is a communications and marketing executive with over 20 years of government, corporate and entrepreneurial experience in advertising and marketing, food and beverage, healthcare, media, non-profit, and the publishing industries.
(Montpelier) – The Vermont Commission on Women (VCW) starts the new legislative session with a public event examining how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts economic aspects of women’s lives, especially for women of color in our state.
(Montpelier, VT) – Speaker of the House Mitzi Johnson has appointed Kiah Morris of Bennington and Kerin Durfee of Burlington to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
(Montpelier) – Speaker of the House, Mitzi Johnson has appointed Ashley Messier of Jericho to serve a four-year term on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
(Montpelier) – The Senate Committee on Committees has appointed Sarah Mell of Winooski to serve on the Vermont Commission on Women (VCW), the state’s non-partisan commission working to advance rights and opportunities for women and girls.
