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AAUW has a proud heritage of helping women pursue higher education, tracing back to a time when few women had that opportunity.

The AAUW Achievement Award is presented to an individual whose record of achievement in any scholarly or professional field spans 20 or more years.

The AAUW Alumnae Recognition Award honors a past recipient of an AAUW fellowship or grant who has attained outstanding success and distinction in her chosen profession.

AAUW's Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award honors an individual, project, organization or institution for outstanding contributions to equality and education for women and girls.

The labor force participation rate — that is those working or looking for work — for women with children under 18 was 71.5% in 2018.

AAUW provides a variety of tools and resources for members interested in participating in the organization, whether by voting in our national election, joining a volunteer committee or becoming a…

AAUW membership will connect you to a powerful network of more than 170,000 people across the country who are as passionate about building a fairer future

Overall, women working full time in the U.S. make 82% of what men do. And collectively, the pay gap costs working women more than $500 billion a year.

Most people grasp the fundamentals of the gender pay gap: Women working full-time earn roughly 80% of men’s salaries. But there are some lesser-known facts about the pay gap as…