AAUW, Dayton, OH Branch

Membership in AAUW

AAUW membership consists of individual and college/university members. If you hold an associate's or equivalent, bachelor's, or higher degree from a regionally accredited college or university, you can join AAUW as an individual (member-at-large) or as a member of one of AAUW's 1,000 branches. Branch members also belong to the national organization.

If you are an undergraduate in a two-or four-year regionally accredited educational institution, you can join as a student affiliate of a branch or a student-affiliate-at-large.

Qualified institutions are educational institutions that offer recognized associate, baccalaureate, or higher degrees and that have full regional accreditation (including two-year or community colleges) or appropriate professional association approval.

In principle and practice, AAUW values and seeks a diverse membership. There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or class.

DUES

National (July 1- June 30)       $47.00

Ohio Division                               8.00

Local Branch                                9.00

Total                                            $64.00

What is one of the greatest benefits of belonging to AAUW? Knowing that you belong to an organization that keeps the promotion of "education and equity for all women and girls, lifelong education and positive societal change" as its main focus.

Let’s pause and take a look at what that means in terms of commitment:

COMMITMENT
When a Harvard physician claimed, more than a century ago, that higher education jeopardized women’s health, AAUW conducted research that proved he was wrong. When the number of female college students grew, AAUW funded fellowships to support them. When girls and boys were treated differently in school, AAUW research put gender bias on the national agenda.

What have we done lately on behalf of all women and girls?

• When the Department of Education established a commission that threatened to dismantle the enforcement provisions of Title IX, the law banning sexual discrimination in education, AAUW mobilized a nationwide outcry to help protect this landmark civil rights law.
• We awarded over $4 million in grants and fellowships to over 250 extraordinary women for the 2006-2007 academic year.
• We represented women and girls by protecting Social Security from privatization, promoting a fair and independent judiciary, and advocating for full funding of the No Child Left Behind Act, improved student aid in the Higher Education Act, and better gender equity provisions in the Perkins Vocational Education Act.
• In 2006 we published our nationally acclaimed research: Drawing The Line: Sexual Harassment on Campus., followed in 2007 by Behind the Pay Gap, the report that brought pay equity to the forefront, showing that just one year out of college, women working full time already earn less that their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens.