The Tennessee Economic Council on Women assesses Tennessee women’s economic status. It develops and advocates solutions to address women’s needs to help women achieve economic autonomy. In setting its priorities, the Council selects issues that are timely and likely to result in positive changes for women.

Council Meeting

The Council will hold its quarterly meeting August 8, 2008 in Nashville in order to set the plan of work for the coming year. 

Fifth-Annual Economic Summit for Women

This year’s Economic Summit will be held October 27, 2008 in Nashville at the Nashville Airport Marriott.  If you would like to learn more about the Summit, please visit www.tnwomensummit.org

Preventative Healthcare Report

There is no greater imperative in American health care than switching from a treatment-oriented society to a prevention-oriented society. Right now we've got it backwards. We wait years and years, doing nothing about unhealthy eating habits and lack of physical activity until people get sick. Then we spend billions of dollars on costly treatments, often when it is already too late to make meaningful improvements to their quality of life or lifespan.

—Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General
of the United States

This autumn the Council will publish its most recent report focusing on the economic impact preventative care has in Tennessee.

Political Participation Report

The Tennessee Economic Council on Women has issued a new report Achieving an Equally Gendered Government: The Economic Impact of Women's Political Participation in Tennessee