Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is a national nonprofit organization in the United States established in 1962 by Jane Fleming and Mary Janney in Washington, D.C. History In its early days, WOW received much of its support from women in key government positions. Initial guidance and support were given to WOW by the President of Radcliffe College, Mary Bunting. The District of Columbia Department of Employment Services, led by Fred Hetzel, provided WOW with initial office space and supplies. In the late 1960s WOW created, produced, and sold 10,000 copies of a guidebook for women specializing in part-time work and education opportunities in the Washington Metro Area. Also, by the end of the 1960s WOW had grown from an all-volunteer group to a nonprofit organization with paid staff, and women's career center that helped hundreds of women find work. In the 1970s WOW shifted from placing women in clerical and health aid jobs to nontraditional jobs that paid more and had been indirectly set aside for males. WOW's work was encouraged in 1967 by an amendment to Executive Order 11246 which specified affirmative action requirements in regard to women that federal contractors had to comply with. WOW's policy work also began in the 1970s with a reauthorization of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA). In 1978, the reauthorization of CETA targeted women directly by bringing up the issue of reverse discrimination. WOW's up-and-coming program the Women's Work Force Network, a network established in 1977 composed of women's employment programs nationwide, was a key player in the effort made to include sex-equity language in public employment and training legislation of CETA. This provision is now referred to as the "WOW paragraph". In the 1980s WOW focused even more on equal access for women to the nation's employment and training systems to desegregate the job market. In the 1990s and early 2000s WOW expanded its focus yet again to an intergenerational approach of economic security. This approach spurred both the Family Economic Self Sufficiency Project (FESS) established at WOW in 1996 and the Elder Economic Security Initiative in 2006. The Family Economic Self Sufficiency Project Wider Opportunity for Women's Family Economic Self-Sufficiency (FESS) Project was established in 1996. The project was created in response to what WOW thought of as the erosion of power on issues related to low-income families from the federal to state and local level. The FESS Project