GRAAUW is growing and active! Please take a look at all the upcoming events and opportunities. Even more info in the bi-monthly Newsletters.
But wait, there’s more! Read the Feb-Mar newsletter for more information about the upcoming STEM PROJECT at VCU with Girls For A Change and Girl Scouts March 22 & 23.
EQUAL PAY DAY. This symbolic day denotes how far into the year women must work to be paid what men were paid the previous year. Equal Pay Day 2024 is on March 12 and marks the current state of the gender pay gap: 84% for full-time workers and 78% for all workers (including part-time and seasonal).
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Our February 2024 Branch Meeting was wonderful!
On February 10 we greatly enjoyed presentations by JaeMarie Solyst, a researcher and doctoral candidate at Carnegie Mellon and Elaine Fath, Lead Game Designer, Carnegie Mellon University Center for Transformational Play.
Learn more about the Feb 10 presentation on Women in STEM
We started 2024 with an excellent January branch meeting at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
We were treated to 2 hours of information and exploration of the library in the VMHC, an amazing and wide ranging collection of documents and artifacts from the beginning of Virginia to present day. We were able to view an original letter from an escaped slave who settled in Canada and paintings from civil war artists as well as a painting of Sacajawea and documents from Thomas Jefferson. Our presenters were kind enough to pull the minutes from the first meeting of our precursor to the Richmond branch in 1909.
Your vote is important in EVERY election. Make your voice heard. Make sure you know where to vote this November!
Redistricting is affecting not only your districts but also possibly your voting place. Time to check how this affects you, by checking at this web site.
We know that when women vote, they change the conversation. Get out YOUR vote!
The GRAAUW Board met in December 2023 to make plans for the new year in response to the ideas/preferences expressed in the recent survey of our membership. We have changed to a program format which alternates an information session or lecture with a service activity related to the same topic.
An update from our April 2023 meeting:
We met at the Tuckahoe Library on Saturday April 15, 2023 to do a service project supporting the VCU Heartbeats program. We had learned about the program at our September meeting, thanks to Leann Ragland’s presentation. For more information about items most needed by the clients of the VCU Heartbeats program, please see the March – April newsletter.
AAUW seeks to promote inclusion and awareness for all members to create an equitable, sustainable and inclusive membership reflective of today’s world.
See more resources about diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging on the AAUW Virginia website.
Get Paid What You’re Worth
AAUW wants to help job applicants, including new graduates, feel confident about entering the job market. Encourage your friends to sign up for Work Smart Online. Negotiate a better salary.
Learn More about Work Smart Online 1 Hour Class
AAUW Diversity Statement:
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.