American Association Of University Women

Programs: The tucson affiliate of the american association of university women (aauw-tucson) engaged the tucson community through six programming initiatives. (1) in order to address the gender wage gap, start smart salary negotiation workshops educated more than 160 young people about negotiating their salary. Early survey results show that salaries increased by an average of 10%. (2) aauw-tucson, in partnership with the league of women voters and the university of arizona, offered running and winning, a workshop for high school girls. Nearly 80 girls attend this day-long workshop to learn how to build a campaign about issues they care about and to run for an elected office. (3) the resilience project is a new program for aauw-tucson. This program provided an educational lunch about gender-based violence on college campuses. Funds raised at the lunch were applied to a new aauw-tucson scholarship at the ua. Twenty-five people attended the lunch and one scholarship was awarded this year. (4) aauw-tucson provided three awards to middle school girls who have shown exemplary science and engineering research skills through the southern arizonascience, engineering, and research foundation fair. Aauw-tucson members volunteered as judges in order to select the winning projects. (5) the native american legacy scholarship was awarded to a recent high school graduate from the tucson unified school district and who was accepted to attend pima community college. This young woman is from the hopi tribe and aspires to complete a degree in pharmacy at the ua. (6) aauw-tucson awarded the virginia palmer memorial scholarship to three women continuing a degree in higher education at pima community college.