Welcome to the Kirkwood–Webster Groves, Missouri, Branch of AAUW!
We break through barriers for women and girls!
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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Upcoming Events
Members, mark your calendars and plan to attend the AAUW Missouri 2025 ANNUAL MEETING by Zoom on Saturday, May 3. Register here. Branch members will also gather in person for a “watch party.” Look for the email invitation.
May 31 will be our lunch meeting with installation of officers and review of the year’s activities. Look for email with details or contact us for more information.
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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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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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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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Kirkwood–Webster Groves branch is part of the St. Louis AAUW Interbranch Council and Missouri AAUW.