4 Tips to Negotiating for the Salary and Benefits You’re Worth
Ready to get paid what you’re worth? Follow these steps to successfully negotiate your salary and benefits package. Read more »
AAUW Remembers Betty Dukes, An Everyday Hero
A former Walmart employee, an ordained minister, and a gender equity titan, Betty Dukes was an everyday hero. Read more »
Unemployment Quintupled My Student Loan Debt: One Pell Grantee’s Story
Candice’s parents were working-class people who did not attend college, nor did they have a lot of money to send Candice and her sister to college. Her loan burden is now about $120,000. Read more »
7 Women’s Stories of Student Debt
AAUW’s 2017 research report Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans found that when it comes to student loans, women bear a disproportionate burden of student debt. Read about seven women who made the decision to invest in their futures by pursuing college degrees, but at what price. Read more »
Harassment, Low Wages, and Debt: One Nonprofit Worker’s Story
Ashley thought she was being financially savvy by going to a local community college near her home in Illinois. Ashley is one of 12 kids, and her family wasn’t in a position to foot the bill for her education. She attended class full time while working full time, split between Starbucks and a doctor’s office. She eventually transferred to Columbia College, Chicago, and graduated with her associate degree in May 2008. Read more »
Fear of Student Debt Made Me Sacrifice My Dreams: One Cop’s Story
Valerie knew she wanted to go to college to achieve her academic dreams, but the threat of student loan debt was just too great. Read more »
American Association of University Women Marks Equal Pay Day with Action
AAUW is recognizing Equal Pay Day by focusing on political, business, and personal actions that could be taken to close the pervasive gender pay gap that negatively impacts women, families, and the American economy. Read more »
Women Demand Global Economic Parity, Not Status Quo
When women are economically empowered they have the potential to change their own economic status as well as that of the communities and countries in which they live. At the CSW, women made it known that we are using our expertise and raising our voices to take action to achieve gender equality. The world can’t wait another 170 years. Read more »
La Pura Verdad sobre la Brecha Salarial por Género (Primavera 2017)
Probablemente ya había escuchado que a los hombres se les paga más que a las mujeres durante el transcurso de sus vidas. Pero ¿qué implica eso? La Pura Verdad sobre la Brecha Salarial por Género explica la brecha salarial en los Estados Unidos; cómo afecta las mujeres de todas las edades, razas, y de todos los niveles educativos; y qué puede hacer para cerrarla. Read more »
Here’s Who Would Win March Madness Based on Schools’ Gender Pay Gaps
March Madness, the annual NCAA basketball tournament, kicks off this week. But to us, the real madness is that women and people of color still don’t have equal pay in 2017! Read more »
