A Woman's Nation Changes Everything

In the recently released The Shriver Report, a Study by Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress asked HOPE to arrange the “Latina Focus” group to help inform the report’s findings.

The report breaks new ground by taking a hard look at how women's changing roles are also affecting our major societal institutions: our government, businesses, religious and faith institutions, educational system, the media, and even men and marriage.

"The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history,” Maria Shriver said, “It’s been almost fifty years since my uncle, President John F. Kennedy, asked Eleanor Roosevelt to do the same by chairing the very first Commission on the Status of the American Woman.   We’ve come a long way since then.  Now I’m hoping policymakers, armed with our surveys and analysis, can develop updated policies and practices that address and support the needs of today's American women, men, and families."

John Podesta, President for the Center for American Progress states "We've created a provocative study that we expect will spur a national conversation about what women's emerging economic power means for our way of life. While Americans have been busy adapting to monumental shift in our culture, our government, businesses and faith institutions have not kept pace with the reality of the modern American family. This report contemplates what a new America should look like after we finally embrace this important new dynamic in our lives and address these challenges not as 'women's issues' but as fundamental issues important to the livelihood and well being of both men and women."

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