“[AAUW´s] efforts to promote women´s education have improved the lives of women all over the world.”
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
“Thank you, AAUW. No organization has done more ... to open doors that had been barred shut and to smash through the glass ceilings and marble ceilings that exist in far too many places.”
U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi,
2005 AAUW National Convention
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The More Things Change ...
More than a century ago, Harvard physician E.H. Clark claimed that higher education jeopardized women’s health and stated, “Identical education is a crime before God and humanity that physiology protests against and experience weeps over.” In reporting the results of an AAUW poll refuting Clark’s claim in 1885, Annie G. Howes retorted, “We can feel confident that higher education for women is in harmony with the vast law of survival of the fittest.”
... The More They Stay the Same
"In remarks made during an economics conference ... in January 2005, Harvard University President Lawrence Summers suggested that innate differences might account for the disparity in men’s and women’s achievement in mathematics and science.” — Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 52(5), 552 (2005). AAUW immediately issued a statement debunking this claim and sent a letter and information on sex discrimination to President Summers.
125 Years Later, Equity Is Still an Issue
Since the first meeting in 1881 of 17 women college graduates, the American Association of University Women has been a catalyst for change and made great strides in improving women’s lives. Today AAUW boasts more than 100,000 members—women and men of different generations, races, and political affiliations. With 1,300 branches and 500 college and university partners, AAUW members across the country contribute to a more promising future and provide a powerful national and local voice for women and girls. But as long as inequity exists AAUW needs strong advocates to stand with us. Women today still need your help, and so does AAUW.
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