What's New
- 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
- PRESS RELEASE: Release of County-by-County Data
Reveal a Persistent Pattern of Elders “Coming Up Short” in Illinois. - PRESS RELEASE: WOW Announces New State Partners in the Elder Economic Security Initiative.
- PRESS RELEASE - A New Measure of Income Adequacy for Older Americans Reveals Many are Ill Prepared to Retire with Dignity: Too Many Depend on Social Security as the Sole Means of Income.
- The State of Women and Their Families’ Lifelong Economic Security
- "Bringing the Concept and Measure of Self-Sufficiency to Life: A Guide to Online Self-Sufficiency Tools"
- Green Jobs Training Program Fact Sheet
- Backward Priorities in Job Training: WOW Statement on '09 Budget
- New Directions In Workforce Development: Do They Lead to Gains for Women?
- Reality Check: Promoting Self-Sufficiency in the Public Workforce System
- WOW Congressional Testimony: Measuring Poverty in America
- WOW Congressional Testimony on WIA: Recommendations to Improve the Effectiveness of Job Training
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.