American Association of University Women of Missouri  (AAUW-MO)

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Recent AAUW Research Releases

Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

An in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers – including stereotypes, gender bias and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities – that continue to block women’s participation and progress in science, technology, engineering, and math.

AAUW Releases Newly Revised Community Action Guide to Mobilize Women Voters

AAUW has released a 2nd edition of its well-received publication, Woman-to- Woman Voter Turnout: A Manual for Community-Based Campaigns to Mobilize Women to Vote. Thanks to critical donor support, this new tool is now available free online to help make plans to activate women voters across the country this fall.  It guides advocates step-by-step through planning a campaign, which includes recruiting volunteers, working with publicly available voter registration files to identify drop-off women voters in their community, and contacting those women through canvassing and phone banking. In addition to the manual, other online tools include nonpartisan voter guide templates, e-cards, position papers, and AAUW’s Congressional Voting Record for the 110th Congress, First Session

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Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education presents a comprehensive look at girls’ educational achievement during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls’ and boys’ progress. Analyses of results from national standardized tests, such as the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the SAT and ACT college entrance examinations, as well as other measures of educational achievement, provide an overall picture of trends in gender equity from elementary school to college and beyond.  (Released 5-20-2008)

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 "Pay Gap Exists as Early as One Year out of College,"  Says New Research Report

New research released in April 2007 by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation shows that just one year out of college, women working full time already earn less than their male colleagues, even when they work in the same field. Ten years after graduation, the pay gap widens.

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  News Release, January 24, 2006

  Drawing the Line:  Sexual Harassment on Campus

  Nearly two-thirds of college students say they have been sexually harassed, according to the most
  comprehensive national research to date.

A new report released by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation suggests that sexual harassment pervades campus life.  According to Drawing the Line: Sexual Harassment on Campus, a majority of U.S. college students encounter some type of sexual harassment and about one-third say that they have been physically harassed while at college. (Read more...)

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Public  Perceptions of the Pay  Gap (2005)

Women  working full time earn about 75 percent of what men working full time earn. Do  Americans know about this disparity? Why do they think there is a pay gap? This  report contains the results of a nationally representative poll about common  perceptions of the pay gap.

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Tenure  Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in  Academia (2004)

This report examines sex discrimination cases that were supported by  the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund during the past 20 years and concludes with  recommendations for female faculty and institutions of higher education.

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Revised: July 15, 2010 .