What's New
- WOW’s Analysis of Election 2008
- Request for Proposals: Announcing Call for Lead State Partners in the Elder Economic Security Initiative. Join us for our Thursday conference calls for more information!
- 2008 Election Mini-Toolkit for Family Economic Self-Sufficiency
- Hear Phyllis Caldwell of Washington Area Women's Foundation Discuss WOW's DC Metro Area Self-Sufficiency Standard and Calculator on WAMU
- WOW's DC Metro Area Self-Sufficiency Standard and Calculator Featured in The Washington Post Op-Ed: "A Clear-Eyed Look at Regional Poverty"
- PRESS RELEASE: New Poverty Data Offers Only a Glimpse of the Struggle Women and Elders Face to Make Ends Meet
- DC Women's Agenda Releases its 2008 DC Council Election Guide on Issues Affecting Women and Girls
- WOW Testimony on the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Measuring American Poverty Act Proposal
- WOW Statement on Draft Legislation to Create a Modern Poverty Measure
- Building Lifelong Economic Security through the Career and Technical Education System: A Guide to Implementing the 2006 Carl Perkins Career and Technical Education Act – Perkins IV
Our Programs
Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW)
WOW works nationally to build pathways to economic independence for America's families, women and girls. For more than 40 years, WOW has helped women learn to earn, with programs emphasizing literacy, technical and nontraditional skills, welfare-to-work transition, career development and retirement security. WOW is recognized nationally for its skills training models, technical assistance and advocacy for women workers. Since 1964, WOW has prepared more than 10,000 women and girls for well-paid work in the DC area.