Campus Action Project 2007-08
2007-08 Campus Action Project Teams
The 2007-2008 Campus Action Project (CAP) teams focused on raising awareness about the gender pay gap for college graduates, building off the findings of the 2007 AAUW Behind the Pay Gap research report.
While several measures of educational achievement show that on average women are faring as well as their male counterparts today, often times these gains do not translate into comparable economic success beyond college. In 2004, college-educated women 25 and older earned 75 percent of what their male peers earned. This pay gap appears within the first year after college – even when women are working full-time in the same fields as men – and widens in the first ten years in the workforce.
Selected CAP teams implemented a project that addressed one or more of the recommendations from the report Behind the Pay Gap. These recommendations include: promoting careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics to girls and women, encouraging women to negotiate for better quality jobs and pay, supporting mothers in the workplace, and ending gender discrimination.
Questions? Call 202/728-7719 or send an e-mail to cap@aauw.org.