Toward Equity Report on the Status of Women. Published April 1, 2025

Toward Equity is the latest collaborative data report chronicling the status of Connecticut’s women and girls over the past 25 years. It urges deeper investment in equity-driven solutions and challenges philanthropy and policymakers to center racial and gender equity, creating a stronger, more inclusive Connecticut where everyone can thrive.

The report is the product of a collaboration between the Aurora Women and Girls Foundation, Demographic Perspectives, the Community Fund for Women and Girls, the Fund for Women and Girls of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, and 20 women and girls serving nonprofits and advocacy organizations across Connecticut.

The research takes a comparative view over time of key markers to ask how the status of women and girls has changed over the first 25 years of the twenty-first century and what strategies and policies can be put in place to accelerate the pace of change toward gender and racial equity.

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Kara Straun, The Community' Foundation's director of program and evaluation and staff liaison to the Community Fund for Women & Girls.

Kara Straun, The Community’ Foundation’s director of program and evaluation and staff liaison to the Community Fund for Women & Girls presenting during the Toward Equity legislative briefing on April 1, 2025.

Legislative Briefing

On April 1, 2025, representatives from The Community Foundation’s Fund for Women & Girls joined the Aurora Women and Girls Foundation and other partners for a news briefing and presentation of the Toward Equity findings to the Bipartisan Women’s Caucus at the State Capitol.

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