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Encouraging Women in the STEM Fields Historic Appointments of Women to Leadership
Posts
• In February 2017, President Trump signed two bills that
promote increased opportunities for women in business • President Trump has appointed women to six Cabinet-
and science, technology, engineering and mathematics level positions (Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation;
(STEM) fields.
Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education; Kirstjen Nielsen,
• H.R. 255 authorized the National Science Foundation Secretary of Homeland Security; Linda McMahon,
to enhance recruitment and support of women Administrator of the Small Business Administration;
entrepreneurs. Gina Haspel, Director of Central Intelligence; and
Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations).
• H.R. 321 directed NASA to encourage women and girls
to pursue STEM education and careers in the aerospace • The lead spokespersons for the White House, the
industry. Pentagon, the State Department, and the Justice
Department are women.

• Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the first mother - and only
http://www.nfrw.org/news/ArtMID/10689/ArticleID/619/ the third woman - to hold the position of White House
Women-See-Historic-Wins-under-President-Trump Press Secretary.

Caring for America

by Jill Tate, Chair [email protected]

The Value of Your Work

January is Human Trafficking month, and we are Republican Women won our challenge by raising the
encouraging each club to have a program on human most amount of money for a club. Meet their dog, Austin.
trafficking at their monthly meetings. Please send me Canyon Lake Republican Women raised money as a special
pictures, and tell me about your programs. Also, don’t tribute to TFRW Past President Jan Kennady. Meet their
forget about our special statewide service project that will dog, Jan Kennady. And finally, our Lieutenant Governor
be happening at our January board meeting. We are filling Dan Patrick was very generous and donated the money to
300 first response backpacks for Traffick911. Please help us! pay for a dog. So meet Lt. Dan. All three are white English
retrievers well on their way to help a veteran in need.
The value of your work does not end when the project
or drive is over. Last year we challenged our clubs to
raise enough money to sponsor a service dog for Patriot This is what we did last year; I can’t wait to see
Paws. You came through – not only did we raise enough the impact of our work on human trafficking!
money to sponsor one dog, we sponsored three! Austin

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