Editor’s Note: We value all opinions at Women AdvaNCe. After our Monday piece, we had two writers who wanted to add their perspective. Both pieces...[Read More]

Hurricane Florence starts its slow, prolonged assault on the Carolinas Just as Hurricane Florence closes in on the Southeast, the area covered by hurricane-force winds...[Read More]

Press Contact: Stephanie Carson stephanie@womenadvancenc.org   Asheville, NC – In a year when the Pink Wave is predicted in local, state and national races, women are...[Read More]

By Kristin Collins Originally Published in the News & Observer. One elderly woman sat with us in her living room, wearing a pink nightgown. “I...[Read More]

By Vicki Meath, Just Economics Originally Published in Asheville Citizen Times For a lot of us, Labor Day is a day off filled with picnics...[Read More]

N.C. court: Cooper, NAACP can’t fast-track amendment challenges North Carolina’s highest court rejected late Wednesday requests by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and a civil rights...[Read More]

Yesterday, Women AdvaNCe joined the NC Council for Women and Youth Involvement and a host of organizations for a celebration of Women’s Equality Day that...[Read More]

Cuba has eluded my husband and I for more than a decade. We’ve fantasized about going. For the travel junkies we are, it represented the...[Read More]

I believe there is a stigma forming in the midst of our presence. It revolves around mental health. The past few years, to my pleasant...[Read More]

1: injustice, unfairness 2: an instance of injustice or unfairness Racial equity results when you cannot predict an outcome by race. It is quantifiable and measurable. It has happened yet...[Read More]