Events:

AAUW-NJ Annual Meeting
April 14, 2012, 8:30 – 2:30
Forsgate County Club, Monroe Township, NJ

The annual AAUW-NJ Meeting is April 14, 2012 at the Forsgate Country Club in Monroe Township, New Jersey. 
The meeting will begin with registration from 8:30a.m. - 9:00a.m.  The meeting will end at 2:30 p.m.
The program will include:

• A discussion of the national program HERVotes. All women need to understanding the recent legislation that affects themselves, their children and their families.

• National AAUW Board member, Charmen Goehring-Fox, will present a 35 minute Power Point presentation, AAUW's Impact on the Past, Present and Future, followed by a group discussion

• Guest Speaker Sylvia Montero will discuss her new book, Make it Your Business - Dare to Climb the Ladder of Leadership.  Sylvia tells her life’s story from a plantation shack in Puerto Rico to the Projects of the Lower East Side of New York.  It is her personal journey on becoming the highest ranking Latina in the history at Pfizer Inc., the world’s largest pharmaceutical company.

Cost: $35.00 which includes a Continental breakfast and lunch.

Theme for the Annual Meeting:
Founded in 1881, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Advances Equity for Women and Girls through Advocacy, Education, Philanthropy, and Research. Issue advocacy isn't just about AAUW lending its name to an issue, or speaking up on Capitol Hill. Issue advocacy is about AAUW members ---and all citizens concerned with equity-- being knowledgeable and aware of the current status of important social, economic and educational issues. AAUW believes that the nationwide “War on Women” is serious and insidious. AAUW is working to make our voices heard on critical issues affecting equity and education for women and young girls. These critical issues affect women, their children--thus their entire family. Women want a level playing field; a fair chance.  Because equity is still an issue, AAUW supports the education of women and the protection of women’s rights.

Our members know the history of the hard work of previous generations that fought to secure women's rights. Without action today, women will again lose dollars in their weekly salaries, social security benefits, and monies toward their retirement plans. The National Executive Director of the American Association of University Women put it this way:  “From Women's Equity Day in October of 2011 to Election Day in November 2012, we will be reaching out to women and urging them to talk to other women in their lives--- their moms, their sisters, their daughters, their friends and neighbors, and their coworkers – so that we can increase voter turnout and bring forward women's voices in the national discussion on jobs, healthcare, education, and family economic security.”

TeenTech 2012: Connecting Girls and Technology
Hands-on Tech Workshops for Girls in Grades 9, 10, and 11
May 23, 2011, 2012
The College of New Jersey
Ewing, NJ

Teen Tech is supported by NJTEEA, TCNJ, American Association of University Women NJ, & Women's Bureau US Department of Labor. Workshops will be announced soon. Email jswpaauwnj@aol.com with any questions.
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Current News:

AAUW 2011 Annual Report
In 2011, AAUW enjoyed another vibrant year full of accomplishments and celebrations. And as we mark our 130th Anniversary, we look back at the AAUW impact across the years. Think about the broad changes that have occurred within communities and society since AAUW's founding. Think about the effects that AAUW has had on women both individually and collectively. (souce AAUW website)
Download the 2011 annual report

November 2011 was AAUW's 130th Anniversary!

National AAUW Receives Four-Star Rating ("4 stars" is the highest rating)
Charity Navigator awards AAUW its highest rating for nonprofits.
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AAUW's latest research report presents new data on sexual harassment in schools.
Read the Report »
Media Coverage »
AAUW Research»

Past News:

Help Promote AAUW's Radio Public Service Announcements
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AAUW Condemns Procedural Defeat of the Paycheck Fairness Act.
More info...

Why so Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
- Media Advisory
- Report

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) releases information on Gender Inequality in the 2010 Asia-Pacific Human Development Report
- About UNDP
- Women's Empowerment Mission

AAUW Provides Policy Recommendations for a True "Woman's Nation"
- AAUW Applauds Shriver, and the Center for American Progress on the report release of A Women's Nation. Read The Shriver Report — A Woman's Nation Changes Everything

AAUW Partner CARE's Interview Series Premier with Nicholas Kristof.
The Pulizer-prize winning journalist discusses the release of Half the Sky (authored with Sheryl WuDunn). The book follows the stories of extraordinary women as they struggle to overcome oppression.
- Watch the Interview

Interview on PBS with AAUW Executive Director Linda Hallman -
Listen to the Interview: Report Aims to Debunk Myths on Gender and Education

AAUW Member Wins Nobel Prize
Carol Greider Shares Prestigious Award for Physiology or Medicine

Katherine Broendel, broendelk@aauw.org
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Ashley Carr, carra@aauw.org
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – AAUW celebrates Carol Greider, AAUW member-at-large and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with her two colleagues, Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak. Greider has been a member of AAUW since 2002.

Greider, Blackburn, and Szostak "discovered that telomeres are made up of simple, repeating blocks of DNA building blocks and are found in all organisms," according to a Johns Hopkins University announcement. Understanding this biological process has paved the way to deeper knowledge of cancer and cellular aging.

"AAUW has a long history of supporting women in the sciences, and we are thrilled to count another Nobel Prize winner among our ranks," said AAUW Executive Director Linda D. Hallman, CAE. In 1920, AAUW awarded two-time Nobel Prize recipient Marie Curie a grant to assist with her groundbreaking research on radium. AAUW member Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea,was nominated for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his work supporting education for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Greider, who holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of California, Berkeley, currently works as the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. She, Blackburn, and Szostak will attend the Nobel Prize awards ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10.

"Greider and Blackburn have shown that women can break through barriers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics," said AAUW President Carolyn H. Garfein. "Their accomplishment serves as an excellent example of women making valuable contributions and the need that exists for supporting and encouraging great female minds, as AAUW does with our fellowships, grants, and community of successful women."

In 2009 a record five women were awarded Nobel Prizes. Prior to this year, only 35 women had ever received the honor. Greider and Blackburn were the first two women to simultaneously win the prize in medicine.

The three other 2009 female laureates include Ada Yonath, who is sharing the Nobel Prize in chemistry; Herta Mueller, who won the prize in literature; and Elinor Ostrom, who is sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Ostrom is the first woman to win the economics prize.

To read what AAUW said on our blog about this year's Nobel Prize winning women, please visit the AAUW blog.

You may also view Marie Curie's page in AAUW's online museum.