As Primary Voting Season Approaches, New Mobile Billboards Highlight How Women Are Losing in New Hampshire
Contact: Andrea L. Alford, 703-477-1075, andrea@weareultraviolet.org
As Primary Voting Season Approaches, New Mobile Billboards Highlight How Women Are Losing in New Hampshire
Billboards to Tour Manchester, Highlight Impact of Politicians’ Votes Against Equal Pay, Paid Family Leave and Access to Planned Parenthood
NEW HAMPSHIRE – Giant mobile billboards are traveling around the headquarters of presidential candidates in Manchester showing primary voters the realities that women in New Hampshire 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/72157663336034702
View the mobile billboard copy here: http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/women_newhampshire/
“Before heading to the polls, voters need to know that women and families in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire. In a state where nearly 1 in 10 women lives in poverty, opposing raising the wage and ending the wage gap is more than bad politics—it does actual harm to women in New Hampshire.”
The mobile billboards will also be traveling around cities and the headquarters of presidential candidates in Iowa, 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.