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THANK YOU
FOUNDING SPONSOR
PRESENTING SPONSOR
2009-2014
FOUNDING SUPPORTER OF THE
VISION 2020 EDUCATION INITIATIVE
2013 VISIONARY SPONSORS
PROGRAM PARTNERS
CONGRESS SUPPORTERS
United Healthcare
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
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WHYY
SEPTEMBER 2014
There are those who say …
… that the best boost for the long-range agenda of women is the short-term mission of
Vision 2020.
That case should be evident in this assembly of information on the progress of Vision 2020’s
vigorous campaign for women’s equality. In particular, look for the clearly defined quartet of
initiatives related to leadership, economic security, education and civic engagement.
Vision 2020 is America’s program. It attracts unified action among women and girls
everywhere because it approaches equality by honoring the past, enriching the present, and
shaping the future.
We encourage you to read the pages ahead. If you believe as we do so that equality for women
should no longer be a goal but rather a reality, you will likely agree that information and
action are fundamental to change. You’ll find a lot of both right here.
Warm regards,
Lynn H. YeakelRosemarie B. Greco
Founder and Co-ChairCo-Chair
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Vision 2020
Campaign for Equality
Vision 2020 is a national coalition of organizations and individuals united in the commitment to
achieve women’s economic and social equality. The coalition includes two or more Delegates in all
50 states and over 80 Allied
organizations representing more
than 22 million women and men,
girls and boys.
The “vision” of Vision 2020 is to
celebrate in the year 2020 the 100th
anniversary of the 19th Amendment
to the U. S. Constitution, granting
women the right to vote, by achieving
the equality envisioned by those who
fought so hard for the amendment’s
passage a century ago.
Vision 2020 began in 2010 by
launching a national conversation
about women and leadership. The
National Office implements strategic
programming across the nation
through its network of Delegates and
Allies to advance its four National
Goals by the year 2020.
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2013-14 Highlights
Vision 2020 began the program year on a high
note, fresh off participation at an international
academic conference on Women and Warfare
at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
The Impact of Women’s Leadership on Global
Conflict concluded with a public program on
Vision 2020 presented by Founder and CoChair Lynn Yeakel at the Scottish Parliament.
The 2013-14 program year focused on
developing stronger bonds with our 81
National and Regional Allies to advance
Vision 2020’s National Goals.
With Wells Fargo as the Founding Supportor
of the Vision 2020 Education Initiative,
education policy expert Beth Olanoff was
recruited to develop strategies to implement
Vision 2020’s Education goal to help
young people value gender equality, shared
leadership, and civic engagement.
A provocative op-ed in March in The
Philadelphia Inquirer and on the Huffington
Post by Lynn Yeakel and co-chair Rosemarie
Greco explained “What’s Wrong with Women’s
History Month.” They wrote, “Of course, if
American women contributed to history
only one month out of every year, a specially
designated Women’s History Month would
be an appropriate observance. But the reality
is that women’s contributions to our nation’s
history are not limited to one month in a year
and so learning about them should not be
limited, either.”
During the year, Vision 2020 created a
well-received collaboration with Catalyst, Inc.
They partnered on a Shared Leadership
Among Women and Men workshop that was
first offered in September 2013 at Drexel
University, with leaders of the University and
from the business and nonprofit community.
The workshop participants reflected on
gender’s impact on leadership in their
departments or organizations and made
commitments to take specific action to
address inequities.
In May 2014 at the Fourth National Congress,
Delegates were inspired by Catalyst research
and a Shared Leadership panel discussion
among prominent business leaders. Vision
2020 and Catalyst will replicate the program
across the country.
Delegates and Allies advanced the Vision
2020 goals at conferences in Charlotte,
Indianapolis, Omaha, Nashville, and at the
Vision 2020 Northwest Regional Conference
in Portland OR. The Fourth National Congress,
Generations of Action, in Philadelphia
May 4-6, 2014, continued building
collaborations and momentum toward
women’s equality across generations. Vision
2020 is collaborating with the National
Constitution Center to plan for the Centennial
Celebration of the 19th Amendment to be held
in Philadelphia in the year 2020.
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Vision 2020 National Goals
Vision 2020’s Campaign for Equality works to achieve four goals by the year 2020:
All Women Count! To achieve shared leadership among women and men – 50/50 by 2020 in
targeted areas.
Women are significantly underrepresented at the leadership levels of business and government, where
national priorities are set and funding and other resources are allocated that affect all of our lives.
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All Women Work! To advance women’s economic security and close the gender pay gap.
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All Women Matter! To educate new generations of girls and boys to value gender equality, shared leadership and civic engagement.
K-12 textbooks and curricula portray women as bystanders to history. This incomplete and inaccurate
view of American history sends a very clear message about the relative stature of girls and boys, women
and men.
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All Women Vote! To mobilize women voters, with a goal of 100 percent of eligible women voting in the
2020 presidential election.
In recent elections, voter turnout by women has equaled or exceeded turnout by men, both numerically
and by proportion. Still, at least one of every three women sits out a presidential election, and primary
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Generations of Action:
Vision 2020 Fourth National Congress
Gathers Leaders to Advance Women’s Equality
PHILADELPHIA, PA – May 6, 2014 — Vision
2020, a national initiative to advance women’s
economic and social equality, gathered new
Delegates and Allies and its larger network of
women leaders from across the country for its
Fourth National Congress that concluded today.
Vision 2020 welcomed more than 50 new
National Delegates and 40 long-term Delegates
who met in Philadelphia to learn how their work
can make a positive impact on women’s equality
in their community and collectively across the
United States. Over half of Vision 2020’s 81 National Allies were represented.
More than 300 people from the surrounding tri-state area
participated in many of the special events throughout the
Congress. These included the Women’s Wit & Wisdom
Luncheon with best-selling author Lisa Scottoline, and a
discussion on the 19th Amendment that granted women’s
suffrage, at the National Constitution Center hosted by its
President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen.
“We are thrilled to report that the Vision 2020 Congress
was a resounding success in terms of Delegate participation,
National Ally representation, programming and ideas
generated,” said Lynn Yeakel, Founder and Executive
Director of Vision 2020, a center within Drexel University
College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health
and Leadership.
“It was a heartening experience to welcome so many new
Delegates, Allies and Vision 2020 national leaders as we
discussed the status of women’s leadership and key actions
to bring equality in sight.”
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Congress participants identified
ways to engage younger
generations in achieving four
Vision 2020 goals by the year
2020. The goals are in areas of
Education, Women in Senior
Leadership, Woman and
Economic Security, and Women
and Civic Engagement.
Vision 2020 honored several outstanding women leaders,
including Rachael and Hannah Tipperman, high school juniors
who created Robot Springboard in Pennsylvania and received
the first Tomorrow Award for their work in STEM; PBS News
Anchor Gwen Ifill, who received the
Pioneer Award; and the immediate
past president of the American Bar
Association, Laurel Bellows, who
received the Visionary Award.
In a Shared Leadership among
Women and Men working breakfast
presented in collaboration with
Catalyst, Inc., prominent men
leaders in the Philadelphia business
community participated with
Delegates and community guests.
Participating in the May 5 evening program was Philadelphia Mayor
Michael A. Nutter, who will serve as honorary co-chair of the Centennial
Advisory Committee working with Vision 2020 and the National
Constitution Center to plan for the National Centennial Celebration of
the 19th Amendment to be held in Philadelphia in the year 2020.
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NATIONAL ALLIES
2020 Women on Boards
American Bar Association
American Medical Women’s Association
American Society of Civil Engineers
Anita Borg Institute
Association for Women in Science
Association of Junior Leagues International Inc.
Athena International
Black Women’s Health Imperative
Business and Professional Women’s Foundation
Catalyst, Inc.
Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers Univ.
Center for Talent Innovation
Clearinghouse of Women’s Issues
Common Cause Education Fund
ERA Education Foundation, Inc.
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Girls Inc.
Girls on the Run
Girl Scouts of the USA
Grace After Fire
Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, Inc.
Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association
International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics,
Drexel Univ. College of Medicine
ION
League of Women Voters
Legal Momentum
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
MBA Women International
Miss Representation
Ms. Foundation
National Association of Commissions for Women
National Association of Women Lawyers
National Association of Women Lawyers Foundation
National Center for Women & Information Technology
National Coalition of 100 Black Women
National Council of Negro Women
National Conference of Puerto Rican Women
National Council of Women’s Organizations
National Panhellenic Conference
National Women’s Law Center
Political Parity
Re:Gender
Rock the Vote
School Girls Unite with the Youth Activism Project
Society of Women Engineers
Take The Lead
Thirty Percent Coalition
Wellesley Centers for Women
Women’s Campaign Forum
Women’s Funding Network
Women’s Media Center
Women Donors Network
REGIONAL ALLIES
Alice Paul Institute
Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College
Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa
State Univ.
Center for Women in Law, Univ. of Texas School of Law
Center for Women’s Leadership, Portland State Univ.
Circle 200
Committee of Seventy
Connecticut Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame
The Forum of Executive Women
Golden Gate Univ. School of Law
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice Univ.
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Main Line Society of Professional Women
Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics at
Chatham Univ.
Professional Women’s Roundtable
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
Simmons College
Sue Shear Institute, Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
Temple Univ. Beasley School of Law
WIL of Greater Philadelphia, Inc.
Women’s Intercultural Exchange
Women’s Law Project
Women’s Leadership Institute, Cedar Crest College
Women’s Resource Center
Women’s Way
Vision 2020 Leadership Circle – 2014
Co-Chairs: Lynn H. Yeakel and Rosemarie B. Greco
Vice Chairs: Subha Barry, Ruth Ann Gillis, Karen Kaplowitz, Roberta Liebenberg
Subha Barry, Principal, SV Barry
Consulting Group LLC
Roberta Liebenberg, Partner,
Fine, Kaplan and Black
Deborah Brittain, Former President,
Association of Junior Leagues International
Connie Lindsey, Executive Vice President,
Northern Trust; National President and
Chair, Board of Directors, Girl Scouts of
the USA
Susan Butler, Founder & CEO,
Susan Bulkeley Butler Institute for the
Development of Women Leaders
Patricia Diaz-Dennis, Retired Senior Vice
President & Assistant General Counsel, AT&T;
Former Chair Board of Directors,
Girl Scouts of the USA
Tina L. Gilbert, Director,
Inclusion & Diversity, TEVA
Ruth Ann Gillis, Retired Executive
Vice President and Chief Administrative
Officer, Exelon Corporation, and President,
Exelon Business Services Company
William Glick, Dean, Jesse H. Jones
Graduate School of Business Rice University;
Vice Chair/Chair Elect, the Association
to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
International
Carolyn Mazure, Ph.D., Director,
Women’s Health Research, Yale University
School of Medicine
Barbara Roberts, Former Governor,
State of Oregon
Lori SchraderBachar, Public Service
Executive, Iowa Professional Licensing and
Regulation Bureau and Former Vice President,
National Association of Commissions
for Women
Carmen Delgado Votaw, Former President,
National Conference of Puerto Rican Women;
Vice President of the Maryland Women’s
Heritage Center
Renee White, Dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, Simmons College
Karen Kaplowitz, President,
The New Ellis Group
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Our History
When Vision 2020 was first imagined in 2009, it
was a big dream — women’s equality by 2020 —
with a small team of people to help make it a reality.
Vision 2020 Founder and Co-Chair Lynn Yeakel
and Co-Chair Rosemarie B. Greco began building a
structure to share their vision of women’s equality
on a national stage.
In 2010, Vision 2020 was launched publicly by its
Founding Sponsors, Drexel University and Drexel
University College of Medicine, and its Presenting
Sponsor, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Delegates were selected from all 50 states and
powerful women’s organizations across the country
became the first of Vision 2020’s National Allies.
Increasingly, supporters reacted enthusiastically to
Vision 2020’s goal to achieve women’s economic
and social equality by the year 2020, 100 years
after the suffragists won the right to vote, and the
momentum began.
Vision 2020 held the First National Congress in
October 2010 at the National Constitution Center in
Philadelphia, initiating an American Conversation
about Women and Leadership. It commissioned an
exhibition on women’s history and an Educators’
Guide written for middle school teachers, with
strategies to present historical information on
women in American history.
In 2011, national goals were identified and Vision
2020 Delegates began developing and implementing State Initiatives to advance these goals. At the
Second National Congress in Chicago, the Vision
2020 Delegates, National Allies and Leadership
established strategies and benchmarks to reach
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the goals and laid the foundation for collaborations
that will ensure success.
In 2012, Delegates’ State Initiatives grew in scope
and impact. These include Real Women Run, a
program created by Utah Delegates that provides
free training to encourage women to run for elected office; Grace After Fire, a Texas-based program
headed by a Delegate that supports women Veterans; and RI-GAP, an initiative by Rhode Island
Delegates to erase the gender gap in gubernatorial
appointments to boards and commissions.
The Third National Congress in Portland OR in
2012 highlighted Vision 2020 collaborations with
the 60-plus National Allies and inspired determination to work in tandem to advance women’s
economic and social equality.
There are now more than 80 Allied organizations
representing 22 million people. Delegates have
been added in states with larger populations and
new State Initiatives have been developed, including a Silicon Valley Think Tank by a California
Delegate. In 2013, Regional Conferences were held
in Charlotte NC, Nashville TN and Portland OR.
The Fourth National Congress convened in
Philadelphia in May 2014. Delegates from across
the nation and a robust cohort of Allies agreed
on strategies to advance Vision 2020 goals to
increase women in senior leadership positions,
advance women’s economic security, educate new
generations to value gender equality, and mobilize
women voters to participate in the 2020 election.
Plans are underway for the Centennial Celebration
of the 19th Amendment in 2020.
Vision 2020 National Advisors
Laurel Bellows
The Bellows Law Group, P.C.
Johnnetta B. Cole, PhD
Director of the Smithsonian National Museum
of African Art
Lynn Laverty Elsenhans
Former Chairman & CEO, Sunoco Inc.
Cary Grace
President, Client Solutions & Strategies,
Aon Hewitt
Kathleen Hall-Jamieson, PhD
Annenberg Public Policy Center,
University of Pennsylvania
Gillian R. Howell
Managing Director, Philanthropic Solutions,
U.S. Trust, Private Wealth Management
Eileen McDonnell
Chairman, President & CEO,
The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Mary Patterson McPherson, PhD
Executive Officer Emeritus,
The American Philosophical Society
Anna Quindlen
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist and Author
Cokie Roberts
Author and Political Commentator
Donna E. Shalala, PhD
President, University of Miami
Dawn Staley
Head Coach, Women’s Basketball,
University of South Carolina
Vision 2020 National Office
A Center in the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership
Drexel University College of Medicine
Lynn Yeakel, Director of the Institute for
Women’s Heath and Leadership (IWHL)
and Founder and Co-Chair, Vision 2020
Carolyn Lynch, Program Manager,
Vision 2020
Beth Olanoff, Director of Education and
National Partnerships, Vision 2020
Mary Flannery, Communications Director,
IWHL and Vision 2020
Melinda Johnson, Director of Administrative
Operations for IWHL
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Countdown to 2020
Since its inception, Vision 2020 has been motivated by the significance of the year 2020, when the
nation will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment that granted women the right to
vote. More Americans were enfranchised by that Constitutional amendment than by any other event
is U.S. history.
The suffragists believed attaining the right to vote would open all other doors of social and economic
equality. Clearly, that has not occurred. But rather than curse the darkness, Vision 2020 decided to
light a candle — actually, thousands of beacons focused on pursuing equality in four specific areas —
increasing the number of women in senior leadership positions, addressing economic equality and pay
equity, educating young people to value gender equality, shared leadership, and civic engagement, and
mobilizing women voters.
For the rest of this decade, Vison 2020 will encourage its Delegates and partner with allied
organizations to achieve these four goals. Each of our 80-plus National and Regional Allies is asked to
consider adopting a Vision 2020 goal compatible with its mission and join in efforts to achieve it.
Around the country, there’s a drumbeat of activity that grows louder as the 19th Amendment
Centennial draws closer. For example, the Maryland Commission on Women has honored a suffragists’
march from New York to Washington D.C. Tennessee will unveil a monument to suffragists in 2015.
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Vision 2020 has announced plans for Philadelphia to host the national celebration in 2020. The
National Constitution Center and Vision 2020 will present a new exhibit on women’s equality.
Cultural performances, outdoor events and educational programs will mark the year.
Then there’s the audacious goal of rallying all eligible women voters in 2020. The best way to honor
the women who fought so hard to achieve suffrage, Vision 2020 believes, is by 100 percent turnout of
eligible women voters. Impossible? That’s what the suffragists were told, too.
The 19th Amendment Centennial Advisory Committee*
Dianne Semingson, chair, Vision 2020 Centennial Celebration
Anne Ewers, President and CEO,
The Kimmel Center
Jami Wintz McKeon, chair-elect,
Morgan Lewis & Bockius L.L.P
Cecelia Fitzgibbon, President,
Moore College of Art & Design
The Hon. Michael A. Nutter
Mayor of Philadelphia
John A. Fry, President, Drexel University
Siobhan Reardon, President & Director,
Free Library of Philadelphia
Bill Glick, Dean, Jesse H. Jones Graduate
School of Business, Rice University
Barbara Roberts, Former Governor, OR
Rev. Bill Golderer, Convening Minister/
President, Broad Street Ministry
Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO,
National Constitution Center
Juliet Goodfriend, Executive Director,
Bryn Mawr Film Institute
Zack Stalberg, former President and CEO,
Committee of Seventy
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dir., Annenberg
Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Vince Stango, COO, National Constitution Center
Meryl Levitz, President and CEO,
Visit Philadelphia
Connie Lindsey, National Board President,
Girl Scouts of the USA
William J. Marrazzo, President and CEO,
WHYY Inc.
Eileen McDonnell, Chairman, President and
CEO, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company
Andrew Swinney, President,
The Philadelphia Foundation
Rob Wonderling, President and CEO,
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
Yvonne Wood, Chair, Tennessee Economic
Council on Women.
Dr. Eric A. Zillmer, Director of Athletics,
Drexel University
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