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Our mission: Advancing gender equity through research, education, and advocacy
American Association of University Women (AAUW), founded in 1881, is an organization of graduates who hold the associate, baccalaureate, or higher degree from a qualified college or university. In addition to national members, local branches are active in Missouri. The Kirkwood–Webster Groves branch, founded in 1971, is one of five branches in the St. Louis area.
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Plant a VOTE Yard Sign!
Working with the St. Louis League of Women Voters, Kirkwood–Webster Groves AAUW Branch designed this VOTE sign as part of a statewide Get Out the Vote project. The signs are for sale to the public. The price for one sign with a stand is $5. We will deliver locally in St. Louis and collect payment at that time, asking you to leave cash or a check made out to K-WG AAUW in a spot you designate. We will need a street address in addition to email and phone number. If you would rather pick up signs from us, let us know that, and we will contact you to arrange a pickup time. Please contact us for further information.
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League of Women Voters Voter Information Guide: Missouri Ballot Issues 2024
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Celebrating Women’s Equality Day 2024
Kathleen Farrell of the LWV and AAUW
More than 30 women gathered to recognize Women’s Equality Day 2024 on Sunday, August 25 at the new Clark Branch of the St. Louis County Library. The event was organized by St. Louis Branch of AAUW; cosponsored by Ballwin-Chesterfield Branch, Ferguson-Florissant Branch, and Kirkwood-Webster Groves Branch; and supported by the League of Women Voters. Kathleen Farrell, past president of the St. Louis League of Women Voters and an AAUW member, was the speaker, discussing the challenges facing Missouri voters this fall.
She emphasized that, if the Equal Rights Amendment
had been enacted, many of the issues reducing women’s rights would not have arisen. She encouraged attendees to work on getting out the vote in November.
Monday, August 26 was the 104th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment giving most women the right to vote.
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Congratulations to Our STEM Scholarship Award Winners for 2024!
Our Branch encourages high school girls to continue their interest in science, technology, engineering, and math fields into their college careers by presenting monetary awards at the end of their senior years. More than two dozen girls have received these awards over the years and most are continuing in STEM fields. Awards for 2024 were presented in April. Congratulations to these scholars!
Co-presidents Lynne Roney (L) and Jeanne Webdell (R) present the awards to (L to R) Sydney Paglusch, Affton High School; Olivia Vogt, Valley Park High School; and Gracie Horton, Maplewood-Richmond Heights High School.
AAUW American Fellowship recipient Atzimba Martinez of Washington University speaks on her research field of topology.
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Spring Luncheon of St. Louis AAUW Interbranch Council and Barbara Lackritz Service Awards, March 24, 2024
(Left) Christine Nobbe was honored with the Kirkwood-Webster Groves Branch’s Barbara Lackritz Service Award for 2024. Chris works for equity for girls and women in STEM fields through her passion for space exploration and promoting STEM scholarships. Congratulations to Christine!
(Right) Branch members attended the Interbranch Spring Fling Luncheon on March 24.
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The Kirkwood–Webster Groves Branch
Celebrates 50 Years
of Empowering Women and Girls!
Members, past members, and friends joined us for our 50-Year Anniversary Celebration Brunch, Saturday, October 16, 2021, at Greenbriar Hills Country Club.
Guest Speaker was Judge Robin Ransom, Supreme Court of Missouri. See more photos here.
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Plant a Yard Sign for Women!
Our 2020 project made the news! Read it here in the Webster-Kirkwood Times: click Article by Jeannie Webdell
August 26, 2020, was the 100th Anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment. After 60 years of organizing, meeting, protesting, lobbying, and marching, women in every state were officially granted the legal right to vote. Of course, it took almost four more decades for women of color to be able to fully exercise that right. 100th Anniversary programs, proclamations, websites, and celebrations were planned across the nation, but many public events had to be cancelled due to COVID-19.
Our project, Plant a Yard Sign for Women, thanks the suffragists and is a subtle reminder that women have not always had a voice in local, state, and national government.
We designed a celebratory sign in the colors of the U.S. suffragist movement and printed more than 500 signs that members of women’s organizations purchased and displayed in their yard, window, community centers, or meetings. This is NOT a political project, and this is NOT a partisan effort. The sign is generic and has no display expiration date. We celebrated our right to vote and showed the St. Louis area how important this is to St. Louis women! A few signs are still available for purchase. Contact the branch.
In the photo of the Kirkwood City Council, you can’t miss the Kirkwood-Webster branch’s yard sign being used as a virtual background by Council Member Wallace Ward! The proclamation acknowledging the Centennial of the 19th Amendment is being read into the record by the Council.
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Learn to Negotiate Your Pay
Women typically are paid 80 percent of what men are paid. Use AAUW’s free Work Smart online workshop to learn how to ask for more. Go to https://salary.aauw.org/ks-mo.
See more about AAUW’s economic security action plans at https://www.aauw.org/issues/equity/.
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AAUW’s mission is to advance gender equity through research, education, and advocacy.
Kirkwood–Webster Groves branch is part of the St. Louis AAUW Interbranch Council and Missouri AAUW.