Leadership
The pipeline is filled with qualified women ready to move into top slots. Yet it isn't happening: Barriers, biases and an outdated workplace model present challenges to women eager to…
The pipeline is filled with qualified women ready to move into top slots. Yet it isn't happening: Barriers, biases and an outdated workplace model present challenges to women eager to…
With the nation facing a persistent pandemic, volatile political unrest and a fractured, fragile economy, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris face an unprecedented array of challenges. Addressing…
AAUW branches and states provide funding for local scholarship programs across the U.S. for qualified women.
Occupations that are dominated by men generally pay better than female-dominated ones, even when they require the same level of skill and/or education.
Women make up the majority of nontenure-track lecturers and instructors across institutions, but only 44% of tenure-track faculty and 36% of full professors. Women of color are especially underrepresented in college faculty and staffs.
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.
The wage gap for many women of color is not only wider than the overall gender wage gap, but it is also closing more slowly.
A year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly a third (31%) of women living in New York City reported having income that is insufficient to meet their basic…
Despite anti-discrimination laws being in place for six decades, new data reveals a troubling standstill in closing the gender pay gap. Women still earn just 84% of what men do,…
President Elect Kamala Harris has broken through many barriers, becoming the first woman and the first Black, Indian and South Asian American to serve in the second-highest office in the…