In Mecklenburg County, women are appointed to city and county boards at the same rate that they are applying.  If more women run for board positions, more are likely to be appointed, and it takes just three women on a board to really influence decisions being made.  This was just one of the messages presented to the more than five hundred people who attended the 2012 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Women’s Summit conference, held at UNC Charlotte on April 13.

As part of the partnership between the Women’s Summit and UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, the institute produced four quarterly reports detailing the state of women in relation to work, wages and the great recession. These reports were used to highlight the differences between men and women in the workforce, with particular attention to the differing impact the recession had on men and women.