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. Education. Civil rights. Affirmative action. Reproductive choice. Sex discrimination. Title IX. Health care. Hate crimes. 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.

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. 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. Salary transparency laws help address pay disparities based on race and gender. Congress must pass the Salary Transparency Act (H.R. 1599). Take action! Click to help pass the Salary Tranparency Act now!

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.

This year AAUW CA is supporting the “School Board Project” to promote leadership on school boards that don’t accept the ban on books about marginalized groups such as those dealing with gender identity, sexual orientation, and race.