It’s no longer news, but the percentage of women living in poverty is growing.

Monica Townson is an independent economic consultant on social policy and a frequent guest on television and radio. She is a former consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Books by Monica Townson are: Report Card on Women & Poverty;  Pensions Under Attack; Growing Older, Working Longer: The New Face of Retirement;  Health and Wealth.

Monday March 8, 2010
12:30 to 2 pm
Wilmot United Church, corner Carleton and King Sts, Fredericton

Light lunch provided.

FREE but you must pre-register: Email acswcccf@gnb.ca or call .

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New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women

NOTE:  Monica Townson will also speak on Women and the Recession, on Monday, March 8, 7 pm, Edmund Casey Hall, Ted Daigle Auditorium, St. Thomas University. Free. 

Sponsored by Atlantic Human Rights Centre; NB Advisory Council on the Status of Women; NB Executive Council Women’s Issues Branch; NB Dept of Social Development and St. Thomas University Women’s Studies & Gender Studies Programme