AAUW is a community that breaks through educational and economic barriers so that all women have a fair chance. Your membership makes AAUW’s powerful voice even stronger on critical issues affecting women and girls.

Share in the commitment to speak out on vital social, economic, and political issues.  These are the critical issues for AAUW – especially in this election year:

• Pay equity
• Paid family and sick leave
• Access to reproductive health care
• College affordability
• The Equal Rights Amendment

Here’s AAUW’s Guide to the issues, with questions about gender equity to ask the candidates, for various offices – whether local, state, or national. AAUW Voter Issue Guide. While AAUW does not endorse candidates for partisan offices, we can learn what we CAN do in this election as members. Check on the upcoming webinar from AAUW California: ““Getting Out the Vote (GOTV) in a Polarized World”, on Monday September 23, 2024 at 7:00pm. Learn more about it and register HERE

AAUW’s policy work connects and rallies advocates at the local, state, national, and global levels to empower women and girls. With the member-voted Public Policy Priorities as our guide, AAUW uses lobbying and grassroots efforts to push forward policies that break through educational and economic barriers for women.

As an AAUW member, you’ll be proud to belong to this nationwide group of people who value education and equal rights … who are contributing to a more promising future for all women and girls … and who together provide a powerful voice for women and girls—a voice that cannot and will not be ignored. Pay equity continues to be a major issue which AAUW has supported for decades. Around the country, there is a trend to ensure greater transparency about salary and compensation. These policies work.

For more information, please visit the national AAUW Public Policy page and the newly re-vamped AAUW California Public Policy page. It’s full of information. Below, see the article about the positions taken by the AAUW California Public Policy Committee on the November Ballot Propositions, from the September issue of  AAUW CA Public Policy News. AAUW is non-partisan and takes positions based on relevance to AAUW’s Public Policy program.

The six AAUW Branches of Santa Clara County support Strong Start, a SCC Office of Education Early Childhood Care and Education project. SCCOE’s mission is to provide universal childcare and preschool, with special emphasis on under-served communities in the county.