Where We Stand: Paid Leave
AAUW works toward greater availability of and access to a high standard of benefits and policies that promote work-life balance, including paid family and medical leave and paid sick days.
AAUW works toward greater availability of and access to a high standard of benefits and policies that promote work-life balance, including paid family and medical leave and paid sick days.
We need to not only value the importance of intersectionality, diversity and equity, we must do the work — and it is lifelong work, core to our mission and vision.
A renewed focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.
To achieve economic security for all women, AAUW advocates pay equity and fairness in compensation and benefits.
AAUW and our supporters have worked for three decades to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act. We call on all elected officials to listen to voters, who overwhelming support pay equity,…
Working with the media provides a rewarding and cost-effective tool for promoting AAUW’s policy priorities and events.
During their roundtable discussion with Secretary DeVos, civil rights advocates expressed their frustration about the absence of diverse communities in the conversation.
In 1920, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (a predecessor to AAUW) helped raise money to purchase a gram of radium for Marie Curie.
Marjorie Child Husted (1892–1986), a graduate from the University of Minnesota and AAUW member, was a home economist, businesswoman—and the brain and voice behind Betty Crocker.
Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in as a member of the U.S. Cabinet, appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Perkins was an active AAUW member…