Advocacy


Work on the FCC Diversity Committee | Other Advocacy Issues
Glass Ceiling Survey Results | Public Policy Links 

As a national organization, AWRT takes positions on policy issues of importance to women. Over the past several years, AWRT has worked hard to promote ownership opportunities for women in the communications industry and to support efforts to make equal employment opportunity rules for women in communications effective and efficient. We encourage you to support the advancement of women in the communications industry.    AT&T and Wal-Mart are generous supporters of AWRT's advocacy efforts.

Work on the FCC Diversity Committee
To learn more about AWRT's work on the FCC Diversity Committee, please download:

  
AWRT's Maria Efantis Brennan to Continue Her Service on FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity in the Digital Age - December 21, 2006
History of FCC Diversity Initiatives  - February 8, 2006
Achievements of FCC Diversity Committee - February 16, 2005
FCC Diversity Committee First Finding of the Career Advancement Subcommittee - June 14, 2004
AWRT's Maria Efantis Brennan Appointed to FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity in the Digital Age - October 7, 2003


Other Advocacy Issues

To learn more about AWRT's work on other issues important to women in electronic media, please download:

AWRT's Comments on the FCC's Designated Entity Program   - June 28, 2005
AWRT's Comments on Reserve Prices or Minimum Opening Bids and Other Auction Procedures - January 12, 2005


Glass Ceiling Survey Results
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Presented by Annenberg Public Policy Center 
To read the current statistics on the "glass ceiling," please download:

View APPC Report on Women Leaders in Communication Companies


Public Policy Links


Interested in finding out more information about advocacy? The list below will help get you started!

Contact the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
888-225-5322
Chairman Kevin J. Martin: KJMWEB@fcc.gov
Commissioner Michael J. Copps: Michael.Copps@fcc.gov
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein: Jonathan.Adelstein@fcc.gov
Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate: dtaylortateweb@fcc.gov
Commissioner Robert McDowell: Robert.McDowell@fcc.gov
http://www.fcc.gov/
 

Contact the White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
NW Washington, D.C. 20502
202-456-1111
President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov
http://www.whitehouse.gov

Contact the United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
202-224-3121
To e-mail your Congressperson, visit http://www.house.gov/, and scroll to bottom of page and click on ‘Write your Rep’.

Contact the United States Senate
Washington, DC 20515
To e-mail your Senator, go to http://www.senate.gov and click on “List Senators by State’. Each Senator’s site will list the appropriate methods for constituent contact.

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet (information on passed and pending legislation in Congress) http://thomas.loc.gov/

 

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