California Federation of Business and Professional Women
Our mission is to promote and support equity for women in all aspects of their lives and to promote personal empowerment and professional development
through advocacy, education, and information.
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery
CFBPW members have committed to fight human trafficking across the state with education and
advocacy programs.
Welcome to the California Federation Business and Professional Women's website. We have been the voice of working women since 1919 when the War Department created our organization. We are the oldest organization of its kind in the world; devoted entirely and actively to the interests and needs of all women irrespective of their occupations and of their status. Our mission is to achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information.
Our founders fought for women's rights by securing commissions for nurses who served in World War I and ensuring that both men and women could take civil service exams for government positions.
Today, we continue the fight for passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, the ratification of the CEDAW treaty, and equal pay for women. Today women only make 77cents to every dollar a man makes. Yet women drive the economy, are starting their own business and taking leadership roles in government and corporations.
In California we are working to help women achieve equity in the workplace, affordable health care and dependent care. We actively support the appointment and election of qualified women to public office and the continuance of the Commission on the Status of Women. We work on all issues that touch women's lives and sponsor programs to improve women's lives and careers. Our members are made up of women from all walks of life and career stages. California is also a member of Enterprising Professional Women USA and the International Federation of Business and Professional Women. Our international organization has consultative status at the United Nations where we work for women’s issues around the world.
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