About AAUW
AAUW empowers women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. Our nonpartisan, nonprofit organization has more than 170,000 members and supporters across the United States, as well as 1,000 local branches and 800 college and university partners. Since AAUW’s founding in 1881, our members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day — educational, social, economic, and political.
AAUW’s Mission: To advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
AAUW’s Vision: Equity for all.
AAUW’s Values: Non-partisan. Intersectional. Inclusive. Intergenerational. Empowering.
AAUW’s Value Promise: By joining AAUW, you belong to a community that breaks through educational and economic barriers so that all women and girls have a fair chance.
Inclusion at AAUW: In principle and in practice, AAUW values and seeks an inclusive membership, workforce, leadership team, and board of directors. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, geographical location, national origin, race, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
AAUW Huntingdon Branch was founded on October 12, 1926.
UPCOMING AAUW EVENTS
Guests and the public are most welcome!
2024-25
Monday, October 28, 6:00-7:30 pm, Juniata College Neff Lecture Hall (1098 von Liebig Center for Science): Candidate Forum. Hear from candidates who want to represent you and ask them questions. All major-party candidates for seats in the US Senate, US House, and PA House have been invited.
Tuesday, November 5, 7:00am-8:00 pm, at your polling place: ELECTION DAY! Everyone needs to cast their ballot in this election (in person on Nov. 5, by mail, by ballot drop-off)!
Friday, November 8, 7:00 pm, contact us for location (Zoom option available): What Women Know Book Club Discussion of Xochitl Gonzalez’s Anita de Monte Laughs Last. 2024.
Our later programs are still in the works. Please check back here later for details. Hope to see YOU at one of them.
ALSO:
- Public Policy Tabling: On Juniata’s campus and at some community festivals
- Programs and Projects: Candidate forums, Title IX, Book Banning, Get-Out-the-Vote Activities, Preventing Interpersonal Violence…
- AND MUCH MORE!! JOIN US.
AAUW ISSUES UPDATE
AAUW’s policy work connects and rallies advocates at the local, state, national, and global levels to empower women and girls. We use lobbying and grassroots efforts to push forward policies that break through educational and economic barriers for women.
EDUCATION
The gender pay gap — and the lack of women in leadership roles — are not problems that suddenly surface when women enter the workforce. The roots of the problem run deep, and correcting it entails understanding the barriers and biases that begin and persist in our educational system.
INCLUSIVE AND WELCOMING SCHOOLS
AAUW PA and AAUW Huntingdon Branch support the PA WInS coalition. This coalition commits to responding to book bans and censorship activity; discriminatory policies and practices, including discipline policies, that exclude or target any student group that is under our scope; and policies that aim to stifle classroom speech and expression.
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
AAUW actively supports ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution. For more information and a way to take action, check out Where We Stand: Equal Rights Amendment.
BEYOND SUFFRAGE
Carlisle Branch presented their Beyond Suffrage White Paper to officials in Harrisburg at the end of September 2022. Read either the whole document or the one page version.
| AAUW PENNSYLVANIA THE KEYSTONER NEWSLETTER –September 2024
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