For the second year in a row, AAUW Huntingdon is a National Three-Star Branch:  1) Communications and External Relations, 2) Programming, and 3) Public Policy and Advocacy 

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!

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.

 

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AAUW PENNSYLVANIA THE KEYSTONER NEWSLETTER –September 2024 Click to be taken to the current Keystoner. You can find past issues of the Keystoner on the AAUW PA website here.