Native Women Lead in partnership with New Mexico Community Capital has been named an award recipient of $10 million in the national #EqualityCantWait Challenge!
Kuunda Woha, Ahe’hee’, Ny’tra, Kherkem, Thank you to all of the funders of this challenge for investing in Native Women to help expand women’s power and influence in the United States by 2030!
Congratulations to all of the award recipients!
#NativeWomensEqualPayday #DemandMore #EquityforNativeWomen
✦ The Backbone of the Community
✦ Emerging as Entrepreneurs & Leaders
✦ Weaving our Ideas, Community, and Culture
✦ Empowering One Another to Manifest Change
✦ In 2016, 2/3 of all American Indian and Alaskan Native women in the United States were the primary breadwinners in their families.
✦ Native women are paid only 57 cents for every dollar paid to White, Non-Hispanic men.
✦ 4 in 5 Native women will experience violence in their lifetime.
✦ Last year, Native Americans/Alaskan Natives owned 1.4% of all women-owned businesses (an estimated 161,500), employing 61,300 workers and generating $11 billion in revenues.
✦ Since 1997, women-owned businesses grew by 114%, while Native women-owned businesses grew by 201%.
