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Sue Rex, wife of gubernatorial candidate Jim Rex, announced today that she will bring her statewide “At the Table” tour to McCormick and Lancaster on Monday. The series, featuring roundtable discussions with South Carolina women regarding issues affecting them and their families, is aimed at providing a place for women, who comprise 51.3 percent of South Carolina’s population, to be heard.
The schedule is as follows:
Monday, May 10, 2010
12:30 p.m.
Fannie Kate’s at McCormick Inn
127 S. Main Street
McCormick, SC
4:30 p.m.
Mariachi’s
217 Lancaster Bypass West
Lancaster, SC
South Carolina ranks fiftieth in the nation in women elected to public office. And, according to a 2008 report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, the Palmetto State ranks in the bottom third of states on women’s earnings, educational attainment, and poverty. African-American women earn little more than half of what white men earn in the state and half as likely to hold a four-year college degree as white women.
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