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Limiting Our Livelihoods: The Cumulative Impact of Sexual Harassment on Women’s Careers
Research & Data
Workplace sexual harassment can take a toll on women’s physical and mental health, limit their job choices, reduce prospects for career development and even force them out of the workforce.
Policy Recommendations: Retirement Security for Women
Policy Center
Because of a lifelong pay gap, women are more vulnerable than men during their retirement years.
Policy Recommendations: Reducing Student Debt
Policy Center
AAUW supports measures to lower the student debt burden on women and their families.
Title IX
This groundbreaking law ushered in an era of enormous progress for girls and women. But more work is needed to achieve its full promise.
The Gender Pay Gap
No matter how you analyze it, the gender pay gap is real, persistent and harmful to women’s financial well-being.
The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap
Research & Data
Over half a century after pay discrimination became illegal in the United States, a persistent pay gap between men and women continues to hurt our nation’s workers and our national…
Women & Student Debt
Women tend to borrow more for their education — and struggle more to pay it off — in part because of the gender pay gap.