AAUW : Empowering Women Since 1881

Equity Now

Together, we can achieve a vision of equal opportunity for all
Ronit Ridberg, AAUW 2010-11 Career Development Grant
NCCWSL 2023

Register now for NCCWSL 2023!

Registration is now open for our 2023 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL)! We’re back live and in person this year from May 31 – June 3, 2023, at the University of Maryland, College Park with an amazing lineup of inspiring speakers, workshops, panels, and more! Act now to get the early bird rate.

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STEMEd For Girls

STEMEd For Girls workshops are back!

STEMEd for Girls is a FREE exciting program created for high school girls —with a particular focus on girls of color—and the people who support them. Whether you are just starting to explore an interest in science, technology, engineering, or math, or you have already decided to major in STEM in college, this program will help you prepare for the journey from 9th grade to 12th grade.

AAUW Celebrates Women’s History Month

AAUW members, fellows, and award winners have been groundbreakers in virtually every field and occupation, ranging from the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903, to a current Supreme Court Justice. Meet some of the extraordinary women of AAUW, and learn more about our history which started in 1881. And join us as we continue to make progress in the fight for gender equity!

Women of AAUW
Free Webinar

In Conversation with Karen Cook Bell: April 14th, 2 PM ET

Join CEO Gloria L. Blackwell as she hosts a fascinating conversation with AAUW American Fellowship alumna and award-winning author, Dr. Karen B. Cook Bell. Her current book: Running from Bondage was a finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize for Best Book in African American Intellectual History and tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War.

Photo by Gayatri Malhotra for Unsplash

Rallying for Reproductive Rights

AAUW strongly condemns the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. AAUW believes everyone has the right to make decisions about their own reproductive lives without government interference. Abortion access is vital to women’s ability to control their lives, bodies and futures. Without reproductive freedom, there can be no equity.

AAUW Alumna Publication

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America
Keisha N. Blain, Ph.D.

2016-17 AAUW American Fellow

Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Keisha N. Blain situates Fannie Lou Hamer as a key political thinker alongside leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks. She demonstrates how Hamer’s ideas remain salient for a new generation of activists committed to dismantling systems of oppression in the United States and across the globe.

A blend of social commentary, biography and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement as we grapple with contemporary concerns around race, inequality and social justice.

Watch AAUW CEO Gloria L. Blackwell discuss the book with Dr. Blain in the video below.

Recent Webinar

Gloria L. Blackwell in Conversation with Alumna Dr. Keisha Blain

Until I Am Free has been described as a must-read for anyone committed to social justice. Learn more.

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Members of AAUW’s Action Network receive urgent email notices and text messages when their advocacy is needed most. With our online Two-Minute Activist tool, it takes just minutes and an internet connection to make your voice heard on issues impacting women and girls!