These points people need to be aware of:
- Women benefit from 1-5% of public funding of the Arts. WIMUST Report
- Women pay 53% of the taxes on the planet but make 64-75 cents on the dollar men make
- Women contribute 93% of their income to their families. Men contribute 43% to their families.
- Of 134 NEA Jazz Master Awards since 1982 with a $25,000 honorarium, only 15 women received this award
- Lilly Ledbetter’s Fair Pay Restoration Act, signed by Pres. Obama in 2009 does not include women musicians
This is the interview that I talk about why I founded Women in Jazz South Florida, Inc.
- See my book Amazing Musicwomen and our Amazing Musicwomen Ensemble
- See our compilation CDs (I, II, III, IV)
- Read my paper: Conscious Inclusion of Women Musicians
Check out these women, also:
- Girls In The Band a film by Judy Chaikin interview on my show MUSICWOMAN Radio
- Ellen Seeling, Montclair Women’s Big Band (CA) See this video I made of interview on KCBS with Ellen Seeling:
- Dotti Anita Taylor former President of IWJ (NY)
- Nicki Mathis, founder of The Many Colors of Women (Conn.)
- Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, filmmaker
- Patricia Adkins-Chiti, President of Fondazione Adkins-Chiti: Donne in Musica and photos of women composers in Europe last July 2014 at the WIMUST Conference
- See the WIMUST Report
On May 2, in Atlanta, I will be honored as the Lady Jazz Master @ www.bwijawards.com
(PLEASE VOTE FOR ME as composer and for our 4th Compilation CD at this link: http://www.bwijawards.com/final-voting.php)
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