Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing
AAUW’s research report, Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing, features the latest data on women’s achievement in subjects related to engineering and computing, how few women are working in these fields, and what can be done. Read more »
What Learning about the Earth Can Do for a Girl
This AAUW grantee founded an organization to build girls’ confidence and consciousness by helping them interact with the ecological community around them. Read more »
Roe’s Legacy Is More than Reproductive Rights
The attorney who argued and won the case that legalized abortion was just 26 at the time. Find out why Sarah Weddington surprised and inspired a generation of advocates. Read more »
Women’s Economic Concerns Take Center Stage in State of the Union
In this year’s State of the Union address, the president decided to go big with a speech some pundits are calling one of his most confident since 2008. Read more »
Life after the Revolution: Tunisian Women’s Economic Empowerment
Tunisia has long led the Arab world in gender equality, with laws on polygamy, marriage age, property ownership, and child custody. Still, the country’s relatively progressive laws have not translated into women’s economic empowerment. Read more »
Holiday Gift Guide for Girls: 2014 Edition
For the third year in a row, we’re looking beyond the “pink aisle” to find gifts that will stay with girls all year. Read more »
Taking a Bite out of Crime: One AAUW State’s Story
In the late 1960s in Pennsylvania rumors had been circulating that judges were handing down unreasonably harsh sentences and that they had abandoned the use of the probation system. Indeed, the AAUW survey results proved these rumors to be true. Read more »
Creating the World of the Future: Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award at 25
Twenty-five years ago, AAUW presented the first Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award at the 1989 AAUW National Convention in Washington, D.C. This eventful convention gave members the opportunity to learn more […] Read more »
AAUW Reacts to New Gender Wage Gap Figure
We are disappointed but not surprised to see that the gender wage gap narrowed only slightly in 2013, leaving a gap that still undermines women’s and families’ efforts to make ends meet. Read more »
Advocacy Matters: Just Look at VAWA
Advocacy is powerful. And each time we push for change, we chip away at the barriers and misconceptions still standing in the way of women and girls. Read more »
