A collaboration in applied participatory research,
this inter-university project between the CRWSJ, UCLA's
Lewis Center
for Regional Policy Studies, and CAUSE
(Coastal Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy) facilitates the research
of the Women's Economic Justice Project (WEJP).
Founded in November 2001,
WEJP consists of grassroots activists from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties;
students, faculty, and staff from UCSB; and wage-earning women from the
region. It works toward achieving positive change for women through public
policy research, coalition building, and support for grassroots community
organizing, targeting women earning low wages and those on public assistance.
It has engaged in the successful campaigns for "employer of record
designations" for IHSS (In Home Supportive Service) Workers and supports
IHSS unionization drives by SEIU in Ventura and the United Domestic Workers
in Santa Barbara. It issues an annual "The State of Low-Income Working
Women" report in advance of an annual regional conference, "Women
Working for Economic Justice," for International Women's Day, March
8.
Funded by the UC Institute for Labor and Employment
WEJP in the News
Michelle Knight, December 5, 2002, "Economic Injust: A New Report Finds many Ventura County Women Struggling to Survive", in Ventura County
Reporter.
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Participating Organizations in WEJP:
Latinos for Better Government
Ventura County League of Women Voters
Lideres Campesinas
Women's Economic Ventures
Venture Living Wage Coalition
Santa Barbara Coalition for a Living Wage
SEIU Local 998
National Women's Political Caucus
United Farm Workers
Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence
Documents:
Women's Economic Justice Project
Of Ventura & Santa Barbara Counties, "The Women's Economic Justice Project directly addresses the
structural root causes of poverty, particularly the silencing of low-income and immigrant working women."
Central
Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE), March 8, 2002,
"Challenging the Feminization of Poverty: A Report on Women in Poverty
in the Ventura and Santa Barbara Central Coast Region (Executive Summary)"
Central
Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE),
"Challenging the Feminization of Poverty: A Report on Women in Poverty
in the Ventura and Santa Barbara Central Coast Region (Full Report)" |
