As Primary Voting Season Approaches, New Mobile Billboards Highlight How Women Are Losing in Iowa
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 12, 2016
Contact: Andrea L. Alford, 703-477-1075, andrea@weareultraviolet.org
As Primary Voting Season Approaches, New Mobile Billboards Highlight How Women Are Losing in Iowa
Billboards to Tour Des Moines, Highlight Impact of Politicians’ Votes Against Equal Pay, Paid Family Leave and Access to Planned Parenthood
DES MOINES – Giant mobile billboards are traveling around the headquarters of presidential candidates in Des Moines showing primary voters the realities that women in Iowa are facing today. The billboard, which is funded by UltraViolet, a national women’s advocacy organization, is part of a larger campaign to elevate issues of equal pay, minimum wage increases, and paid family leave as well as expose the ongoing attacks on women’s health and economic security ahead of the 2016 election.
See images of the mobile billboards here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79559505@N06/albums/72157663326219811
View the mobile billboard copy here: weareultraviolet.org/iowa.
“Before heading to the polls, voters need to know that women and families in Iowa are losing,” said Shaunna Thomas, co-founder of UltraViolet. “In such a contentious election landscape fueled by anti-women rhetoric, our members want to know what these candidates are going to do to address the status of women in Iowa. In a state where nearly 1 in 7 women lives in poverty, opposing raising the wage and ending the wage gap is more than bad politics—it does actual harm to Iowa women.”
The mobile billboards will also be traveling around cities and the headquarters of presidential candidates in New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada.
For interviews with UltraViolet please contact Andrea L. Alford at 703-477-1075 or by email at andrea@weareultraviolet.org.
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UltraViolet is an online community of over 700,000 women and men who want to take collective action to expose and fight sexism in the public sector, private sector and the media. Find out more at WeAreUltraViolet.org.