When it comes to charitable giving, women
are shortchanged. Only a tiny sliver of the philanthropic
pie goes to programs aimed at women. Even more startling
is that this discriminatory underfunding is virtually
unacknowledged.
Although groups may claim they target more
dollars to women and girls than to men and boys, overall
allocations for specific gender-based programs shows a
clear and harmful bias particularly among the larger programs.
(Empowering Women in Philanthropy,
The Empowering Women Series, No. 3; A Publication of the
Feminist Majority Foundation, 1991.)
