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Empowering women in Michigan

AAUW has been empowering women as individuals and as a community since 1881. For more than 130 years, we have worked together as a national grassroots organization to improve the lives of millions of women and their families.

AAUW of Michigan Mission

AAUW advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.

AAUW’s Vision

Equity for all.

AAUW’s Values

Nonpartisan. Fact-based. Integrity. Inclusion and Intersectionality.

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Public Policy and Advocacy

AAUWMI’s public policy and advocacy work seeks to empower women and girls in Michigan.

AAUW Public Policy Priorities	Be a Two-Minute Activist!	Michigan Voter Information Center
AAUWMI Public Policy Principles	AAUW's Policy Center	Connect with State Government
Public Policy Director's Message	AAUW's Advocacy Toolkit	Connect with Your US Legislators
Key Executive Orders and Actions in Trump’s First 100 Days

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Branch Leadership Playbooks

AAUW of Michigan is producing a series of branch leadership playbooks to assist branch officers and the collaborative teams they assemble, both formal and informal, to assist in performing their responsibilities. These playbooks are designed to be scalable for use by small, medium, and large branches. We hope the playbooks will help branches recruit new officers by making the jobs appear manageable, satisfying, and occasionally even fun. We welcome suggestions for updates and additions to future versions of the playbooks. Please send comments to .

AAUW of Michigan Newsletters

Community Connection

Welcome to the Community Connection, a place to view our e-blasts from your state organization. We promise to keep theCommunity Connection short, timely, and geared toward our members (that’s YOU) with what YOU might want to know or do to be an active AAUW member.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Toolkit

The AAUW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) resources in the DEI Toolkit aim to identify best practices for promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within AAUW. These resources present guidelines for how AAUW branches, national members, student members and individual members can demonstrate an understanding of AAUW’s mission, values, goals and strategic plan. It is meant to start the inclusion conversation. We encourage all members to seek ways to incorporate inclusive practices into their branches and daily life.

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AAUW of Michigan Webinars

AAUW of Michigan presents Webinars on topics related to our mission. See some of our most recent presentations below. Find our complete archive of recordings on YouTube. For information about upcoming webinars and other events, see our calendar.

Revisiting the 2022 Election and the Future of Democracy, 2/9/2023

Screen shot from Recruiting and Engaging Younger Members Panel Discussion Recruiting and Engaging Younger Members Panel Discussion, 6/26/2023

Ranked Choice Voting for Michigan, Ron Zimmerman of Rank MI Vote, 9/14/2023

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A coalition of 37 health organizations including the American Heart Association, Lupus Foundation of America, Arthritis Foundation, National MS Society, UsAgainstAlzheimer's, COPD Foundation, and Prevent Blindness have signed on to a new women’s health framework called the “National Strategy to Close the Women's Health Gap.” The document was released on July 15 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Women's Health Research, and the Women First Research Coalition. Proponents argue that women’s health has been narrowly viewed as reproductive health and that broadening the concept of women’s health to encompass overall health will reduce the gender health gap caused by the shortfall in research, data, and clinical evidence for conditions that affect women uniquely, disproportionately, or differently.The organizing concept of the new framework is sex as a biological variable, a term the National Institutes of Health has used for a decade, and not a demographic box to check. The new framework sees sex as a factor that shapes how disease progresses and how drugs behave, in every body, in every specialty. The reframing could be significant for federal funding for women's health. While women make up roughly half of the population, only 8.8% of NIH research spending from FY2013 to FY2023 was for women's health research. 8.8% for gynecology and obstetrics is comparable for other types of medical specialties, but 8.8% spent on sex differences across all of medicine looks patently unfair and indefensible. Champions of the new plan hope that the reframing will lead to more funding for women's health across the board.Read more: www.forbes.com/sites/geristengel/2026/07/16/the-20-billion-question-what-counts-as-womens-health/#womenshealth #fundingwomenshealth #GenderHealthGap #womenshealthgap ... See MoreSee Less

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