Equity is still an issue!
In AAUW, we advance equity for women and girls through:
- Research on equity issues that impact the lives of women and girls and which resonate with members of the community.
- Education for ourselves on those issues so we can discover the opportunities for us to fight those inequities, while we also encourage education on all fronts as the best strategy to decrease inequity overall
- Advocacy to carry out what we learn and “shape the future” with work in our schools, our legislatures, courts and our communities.
Our current theme is Education as the Gateway to Women’s Economic Security which shapes our work and informs our projects. Many of those are based on pay equity.
Pay Equity
Last spring, we published Behind the Pay Gap which reports that just one year out of college, women working full time already earn less than their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens. At the conference we had some copies of the executive summary, and review copies of the full report. You can download those here:
- 12-page Executive Summary of Behind the Pay Gap
- Download Behind the Pay Gap
To learn more about pay equity and how you can combat it, check these resources
- Request download link for Pay Equity Resource Kit.
- Additional Pay Equity information from aauw.org
Other Resource Kits
The following additional kits were also on display at the conference
- Request download link for Affirmative Action Resource Kit
Additional Affirmative Action information from aauw.org - Request download link for Title IX Resource Kit
Additional Title IX information from aauw.org - Download Young Advocates Toolkit from ncchild.org
Additional information on using the toolkit from aauwnc.org
Please contact info@aauwnc.org if you’d like to partner with AAUW members in NC to make use of those kits, but feel free to use the information with your stakeholders.
Additional Resources
- All AAUW Research Reports, including series on sexual harassment, women in the workplace, equity issues on campuses, and gender equity in the schools. The Educational Foundation reports began in 1991-1992 with the publication of Shortchanging Girls: Shortchanging America, the groundbreaking research that changed the conversation about girls in the schools.
- More on AAUW Public Policy positions
- The AAUW Educational Foundation is the largest source of funding for graduate student women. See www.aauw.org for information on fellowships and grants and our work to end sex discrimination in higher education.
Fundraising
All of the above projects are primarily funded by AAUW members and branch projects. If you purchased a Charlotte branch cookbook at the conference, thanks for your support! To learn more about the branches and their projects in the community, please contact info@aauwnc.org.
Do you want to learn more?
- Follow AAUW and AAUW NC updates through RSS feeds. [Note that you can “subscribe” to RSS feeds through e-mail using sites like rssfwd.com, but also consider upgrading your web browsing practices to use an RSS reader. See www.aauw.org for an overview. Note that both of these sites allow you to subscribe to just a subset of the news. AAUW NC’s public policy feed and AAUW’s equity issues and legislative alerts feeds may be of particular interest.
- Join us! Members have access to members-only resources like a series of e-mail lists and
- the weekly Washington Update
- downloads available only to members – for example, the Woman-to-Woman Voter Turnout Guide
For information on joining AAUW NC or a branch in North Carolina, please contact info@aauwnc.org.
AAUW Overview
If you have time, please watch this 6.5 minute video for more about AAUW. Everyone speaking is an AAUW member:
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