🎂🎉 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 Women’s Equality Day! Today we celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment 94 years ago.
The right to vote is a huge part of women’s equality. To use your right this November, make sure you’re registered to vote at http://www.aauwaction.org.
No Fear of Flying Here: 12 Women to Celebrate on Aviation Day
National Aviation Day marks Orville Wright’s birthday. But let’s not forget to celebrate other sky-blazing aviators.
Next week is Grace Hopper’s birthday! Here are 3 ways you can empower girls to be the next Grace.
- Show your support for computer science education. Sign this petition urging leaders in your state and community to make computer science education available to every student at every school.
- Encourage your governor, city council, and mayor to proclaim Computer Science Education Week in your state and community.
- During the week of December 9–15, organize an Hour of Code event.
- At your school: Organize an Hour of Code for students in your classroom or your school. Check out the official participation guide for schools.
- In your community: Organize an Hour of Code at a club, church, YMCA, university, or even at home. Check out the guide.
- At your workplace: Organize an Hour of Code for employees. Check out the guide for employers.
- At your school: Organize an Hour of Code for students in your classroom or your school. Check out the official participation guide for schools.
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold women’s reproductive rights in the case of Roe v. Wade.
Reblog if you think a woman and her doctor – not politicians – should make the informed decisions when it comes to her own pregnancy.
Dear Alice Paul,
Today you were born, and for that we are grateful.
Love,
Women