National Center for Policy Analysis: History
Establishment of Women in the Economy
WIE is one of the NCPA’s newest programs, established in 2001 and designed to communicate the benefits of empowering individuals and relying on free markets. WIE concentrates on the impact of certain public policies on American families, especially concerning women. Among the books the NCPA has published are:
- Women in the Twenty-First Century: Public Policy for the Future, a book by NCPA Senior Fellow Celeste Colgan and NCPA President John Goodman that takes a critical look at the institutions and public policy issues that most affect women today and in the future.
- The book is a sequel to Women’s Agenda: Necessary Public Policy Reforms, a book detailing Women in the Economy’s position on taxes, Social Security, welfare, retirement and health care.
- In 1991, the NCPA assembled a 76-member task force representing think tanks and policy organizations on four continents. Their goal was to develop a pro-human, pro-science, pro-free enterprise approach to the environment. The published result, Progressive Environmentalism, was translated into Spanish for use throughout Latin America and into Portuguese for use at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
The program has received much attention from other think tanks and nationwide media. The NCPA sponsored a Women’s Agenda Conference in Washington, D.C. to discuss women’s participation in the U.S. economy. Among the speakers were Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Congresswoman Barbara Cubin.