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Pay Equity: Looking Ahead to 2011
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re already familiar with the wage gap and with the grassroots efforts that take place across the nation every April to raise awareness about gender...
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Why Women Should Care about the President’s Jobs Speech
Next Thursday, September 8, President Barack Obama will give what’s being touted as a major speech that will pressure the so-called debt “super committee” to focus on job creation and tackling the...
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Women Must Be a Part of Our Recovery
Getting America back to work is of paramount importance. As the president and Congress argue over the best way to jump start a slowing recovery and stagnant unemployment figures, they must hear this:...
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Ridiculous and True: Gender Pay Gap Unchanged for over a Decade
Despite recent stories about how women are poised to out-earn men in coming generations, the stark reality is that worldwide, women still make an average of 18 percent less than their male counterparts...
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The Simple Truth
Before I started working at AAUW, I never really gave much thought to the gender pay gap. Sure, I knew it existed. I knew the numbers — women make 77 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men —...
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Unhappy Hour Draws Attention to the Pay Gap
On Tuesday, April 17, AAUW marked Equal Pay Day — the symbolic day when women’s earnings finally catch up to what men made last year — with a patio-style Unhappy Hour outside our national office....
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Elect Her at Wyoming, Idaho State, Wright State, and Boise State
Elect Her–Campus Women Win, a collaboration between AAUW and Running Start, encourages and trains college women to run for student government. Follow the links below to read highlights from this...
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Gap and Gown: An AAUW Issue since 1894
On October 24, AAUW will release a new report, Graduating to a Pay Gap. The following is the third installment of Gap and Gown, a new blog series inspired by the forthcoming research. AAUW has been at...
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Top Five Ways to Motivate Young Women to Vote
For the past eight months, our It’s My Vote: I Will Be Heard campaign has done everything possible to inspire young women to vote on November 6. With just one day left in the final countdown to...
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Gap and Gown: The Reality for College Graduates
I grew up in the Washington, D.C., area. Several of our school systems notoriously underperform amid poverty and socio-economic disparities. But I didn’t want to become another statistic in a system...
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