🎂🎉 Happy Birthday to Us!🎉🎂
On November 28, 1881, Marion Talbot, then a recent graduate from Boston University, and Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, invited 15 alumnae from eight colleges to a meeting in Boston.
Discouraged by the lack of opportunities available to them, the women discussed how they would join together to help other women attend college and to assist those who had already graduated. And that’s how AAUW was born! 💪
We’re thankful for the women who founded AAUW and helped start a movement for gender equity. Here’s to another 134 years of empowering women and girls!
Happy International Day of the Girl! Together, we can create a better world for women and girls everywhere.
“We’re going to continue to fight to eliminate the pay gap. Equal pay for equal work. It’s an all-American idea.” —President Obama
Every woman deserves equal pay.
#ICYMI: Earlier this week, Target announced it will remove all gender-based signage for toys and children. Here’s to hoping more stores follow suit!
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Putting a woman on the $10 bill is supposed to symbolize the gains our nation has made when it comes to gender equity. And while symbolism is important, we simply can’t let it stop there. AAUW is putting out the call for Americans to join the fight for fair pay.
Join us in demanding more than just symbolic change with #TheNew10!
Learn more at fightforfairpay.org.(via micdotcom)
Source: mic.com
Want to help level the playing field for women in sports?
Here are three ways you can help promote gender equity in sports.
Have you been tuning into #WorldCup2015? Unfortunately, expanded opportunities for female athletes have not translated into greater gender equity throughout the professional sports world. While the minimum salary for athletes in the MLS, the highest-level men’s soccer is $60,000, salaries in the women’s equivalent, the NWSL, range from a paltry $6,842 to $37,800 at the cap. And whereas prize money for the winners of the women’s #WorldCup2015 is set at $2 million, in 2014, FIFA doled out $576 million in prize money for the men’s tournament.
Here’s how YOU can help level the playing field.
1. Watch tonight’s #WorldCup2015 final! ⚽
The U.S. women are contenders for the trophy, hoping to add to World Cup wins in 1991 and 1999, as well as numerous Olympic medals. And with household icons Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, and Sydney Leroux going up against international stars like Germany’s Nadine Angerer and Japan’s Homare Sawa, the competition will be fierce.2. Become a Title IX advocate!
By communicating with schools about the importance of Title IX coordinators, sharing our video, or writing letters to the editor, you can help protect education and sports programs for students across the nation.3. Support girls’ and women’s teams.
Attend sporting events, coach a team, and request media coverage from your local newspaper and TV stations.READ MORE: http://www.aauw.org/2015/06/23/unequal-fortunes-womens-soccer/
Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let’s stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices. To do that, we must stop seeing work-family policy as a women’s issue and start seeing it as a human rights issue that affects parents, children, partners, singles and elders. Feminists should certainly support this campaign. But they don’t need to own it.
From “Why Gender Equity Stalled” by Stephanie Coontz in the New York Times