Advocates for domestic partner benefits hope to gain the support of UW students. Once again this year, Governor Jim Doyle includes domestic partner benefits in his proposed budget.
Leia Ferrari of New Berlin is a UW student and member of the Coalition for Domestic Partner Benefits. “Faculty members who have left in the past have documented the lack of domestic partner benefits as one of their reasons for leaving” said Ferrari. “Faculty members don’t feel as if they’re being valued equally. It’s an issue of fairness and equality.”