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AAUW NYS Summer Leadership Conference
Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York
AAUW NYS Summer Leadership Conference in Cazenovia College, Cazenovia, New York. The Empire State Virtual NY Branch (ESVB) members always actively participate in this Summer Leadership Conference but this year was very special to us because we celebrated our 5th Anniversary!
Our two newest members, Raegan Sealy, from
England and a recent graduate of the New School
and Ali Comerford, from Ireland and a recent graduate of the Manhattan School of Music entertained us, sang and played the guitar and inspired great moments of joy as we continue to live our AAUW mission to advance equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research.
AAUW NYS Leadership
Congratulations to the AAUW NYS board members
for a great Summer Leadership Conference
July 22-24, 2016, Cazenovia College
If you missed, this conference, we focused on Programming and Leadership! Some of the topics included Leadership workshops, Recruiting Leaders, Committees Leadership and Developing Branch Leadership.
Some of the program highlights included a Leadership presentation by Deepti Gudipati, Vice President Programming AAUW and the Work Smart + Start Smart Workshop presentation by Deepti Gudipati to empower women with the skills and confidence to successfully negotiate their salary and benefits packages.
Legal Advocacy Fund at Work for Pay Equity in the Workplace
by
Nancy Mion, ESVB Public Policy Director
New LAF Case – It is always exciting to learn about a new LAF case. The most recently adopted one reflects how the gender pay gap can impact on a woman’s life long earnings. The Legal Advocacy Fund provides individuals support as they fight for their rights. These are real people who need our financial and organizational help as their cases set precedents and draw attention to inequities.
You may want to share this case with your members. (You may receive info about this case from several other AAUW NYS sources too.) Here is a short summary you might want to use.
The most recent case adopted by the AAUW LAF is Rizo vs. Fresno County Office of Education. It vividly demonstrates the effect the gender pay gap has on women’s salaries. The plaintiff Aileen Rizo, a math consultant, learned that a male colleague, with less experience, was hired on the 9th of 10 steps, while she had been hired on the first step. When she filed a complaint she was told that starting salaries were based solely on the employee’s previous wages. Since women are generally paid les then men, this practice perpetuates the wage gap. Rizo eventually filed suit under the Equal Pay Act and California sex status discrimination statutes
Want to know more about this case? Check out http://aauw-nys.org/laf_casesupport.htm
The Deadline for National AAUW Receiving Your Branchs 2015 Contributions to LAF is December 31. Individual donors often give their donations in December. Please encourage your members to support LAF with their personal contributions to this important AAUW Program. Do ask them to give you the money now before the end of the year deadline.
Congratulations to AAUW’s Senior Leadership!
Congratulations to AAUW’s Senior Leadership
Linda Hallman, Executive Director &
Patricia Fae Ho, President
In October, the mayor, the city’s Office of Women’s Advancement, and AAUW leaders announced an ambitious initiative to offer free AAUW Work Smart salary negotiation trainings to half of Boston’s working women in the next five years. That means training 85,000 women to negotiate higher salaries and better benefits — and making a dent in the gender pay gap, which stands nationally at 21 percent.
Women working full time in the United States typically are paid just 79 percent of what men are paid, and it’s even worse for most women of color. The gender pay gap starts just one year out of college, and it only widens over the course of a career.
One of the many ways that AAUW is fighting the pay gap is by empowering women to negotiate for what they’re worth. That’s why, in 2014, AAUW acquired the Start Smart and Work Smart salary negotiation programs, which focus on college women and working women, respectively, from collaborator WAGE Project.
AAUW Start Smart is designed for college students who are about to enter the job market, and AAUW members have been putting on these workshops for years. AAUW Work Smart is for women who are already working, and it’s now available for AAUW members to get involved in presenting. Both workshops have been completely redesigned using the latest research and negotiation strategies so that participants will leave with the skills and confidence to successfully navigate the complexities of job offers and promotions. To organize a Start Smart or Work Smart salary negotiation program, email AAUW Senior Program Manager Jesse Rauch at rauchj@aauw.org or Maria Ellis at mellis@fsacap.com
The Wild Women are Coming!
“Embracing Eleanor in the 21st Century”
The NY/NJ AAUW “WILD” Women Project
(Women In Leadership Development)
Members from the NY/NJ WILD Project (Women in Leadership Development) are attending the AAUW National Convention in San Diego come June. They will be promoting Phase 3 of the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Read. State board members connected at our last national convention in New Orleans and strong bonds of friendship developed, as they often do in AAUW. Robin Gerber, keynote speaker there inspired these women to focus on leadership through her book “Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way.” There are monthly conference calls, convention workshops and program planning. You too can become “WILD” and join in Phase 3 that starts this July. Members connect on the third Tuesday of each month to review and discuss the current chapter with a focus on the leadership virtues Eleanor exemplified.
Eleanor was named as the most influential first lady of all times by a Siena Poll in 2014. Ken Burns made her an integral part of his new series, “The Roosevelts” last fall. The UN has designated her birthday as the date to celebrate International Day of the Girl. The time is right for you to establish a relationship with Eleanor or renew an old friendship. Robin’s book connects you to Eleanor in a very personal way.
National will be hosting round table discussions at the convention. We think this New York/New Jersey collaboration is something to talk about. There will also be opportunities in both New York and New Jersey to learn more about this project at their spring gatherings. If you have a personal or family story related to Eleanor be sure to share it with us.
Eleanor believes that we were all ‘born to be WILD.’ To join the fun, contact
Joan Monk – ftmaven@gmail.com.
AAUW NYS District V Conference
Ten Reasons to Attend
the District V Conference
Focus on Feminism:
Past & Present, Near & Far
New York Institute of Technology
16 W 61st Street, 11th Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10023
2:00 – 5:00 pm
October 3, 2015 in NYC
- Get the scoop on AAUW NYS Summer Meeting in July 24-26, 2015
- “What happens at Caze, stays at Caze” need not apply.
- Spend a Saturday afternoon on campus, enjoying the facilities of one of C/U partners in Manhattan. Tours will be available
- Hone your networking skills as you meet new members and/or reconnect with dear friends and branch members throughout our District V AAUW NYS branches and to share our successful and fun AAUW mission based programs.
- Meet Nnenna Agba, AAUW Career Development Grant Recipient from Nigeria; and her mentor Kechie Ogbodo, the founder of Kechie’s Project and learn of her amazing work in Nigeria to educate and empower girls.
- Celebrate International Day of the Girl by bringing school supplies for Kechie’s Project
- Take advantage of our special 2/1 offer and bring a girl to this event
- Become a GI – get informed, get inspired and get involved to revitalize your branch and community.
- Meet Jennifer Hall Lee, outstanding filmmaker and feminist extraordinaire, and find out why she had to make this film.
- Let’s focus on feminism, so we can boldly answer when asked, “Are you a feminist?”
To register for the conference, click on the link: AAUW District V Conference Registration Form
See you on October 3rd!! Joan Monk, ftmaven@gmail.com
Greetings from our AAUW NYS Summer meeting in Cazenovia, NY
Greetings from our AAUW NYS Summer meeting in Cazenovia, NY
Greetings from our AAUW NYS Summer meeting in Cazenovia, NY. We had lots of fun while living our AAUW mission and preparing branches to better connect activities with community needs and planning our 2016 AAUW NYS Convention which will take place in Saratoga Springs on April 15-17, 2016.
The Empire State Virtual Branch will be hosting the AAUW NYS District V Conference scheduled for Sat. October 3, 2016 from 2-5 pm at the New York Institute of Technology.
To register for the conference click on: AAUW District V Conference Registration Form
Registration Deadline: September 21, 2015.
NY/NJ AAUW “WILD” Women Project
The NY/NJ AAUW WILD” WomenProject
(Women In Leadership Development)
“Embracing Eleanor in
the 21st Century”
1. “Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way”
- Robin Gerber’s keynote resonated with the membership at the AAUW National Convention in New Orleans in June. She agreed to support us in a year long/month by month/chapter by chapter study of her book “Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way.”
Branch participation is encouraged via conference call by: -having a single member/6 members sharing calls & reporting back -Westchester Branch is mentoring college students with this book
- This initiative will begin in January of 2014 for NY AAUW.
If book groups are interested in reading this book, there is a reading guide by Robin.
2. Celebrating the International Day of the Girl on October 11th
There is no better way to honor the legacy of Eleanor Roosevelt than promoting this celebration of girls that falls on her birthday, October 11th. This celebration is in its’ second year and we are delighted to spread the word.
The Youtube video “The Girl Effect” is a good way to educate your members of the plight of young girls in developing countries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8xgF0JtVg
Be sure to visit The Girl Effect website for more information. www.girleffect.org
Build on the last two years to create a platform for this program – Girls Speak Out; 11 Days of Action; Celebrate Girls on 11th of Every Month.
For many branches, this may be their first introduction to this special day. Remember to start small/expand gradually/think in terms of year.
3. Developing your own Branch ‘UN Women” Initiative
It is our hope that branches will take these ideas and design programs/projects that speak to their membership and community.
We have two AAUW NYS members working at the UN – Melissa Guardaro, the AAUW Representative and Geeta Desai, on the Membership Committee of the IFUW (International Federation of University Women).
Geeta is also the Public Policy Convener for Women Graduates – USA and has a blog that focuses on current issues facing women and girls. Here is the website for interested members– www.wg-usa.org/advocacyblog.
The CTAUN Conference this year is on Friday, 1/31/14 and members are welcome to attend. Its focus is “Promoting Peace through Education.” (www.ctaun.org)
Mark your calendars – you are cordially invited to attend the parallel events that will accompany the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings during the first two weeks of March 2014.
Interested in becoming a WILD Woman?
Contact Joan Monk, AAUW NYS District Director – ftmaven@gmail.com or 914 245 7704