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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

Screenshot of opening frame of video It’s in the Numbers!: Financial and Fundraising Information for Your AAUW Branch, 1/16/2025

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The childcare funding crisis has been news a lot lately, and deservedly so. Some new statistics from Bank of America are pretty startling. The cost of daycare is rising at almost twice the rate of general inflation and can exceed the cost of rent and annual tuition and fees at the 4-year public college in many parts of the country. Ouch. Many families are having to make the difficult economic decision for one partner to stay home to care for the kids, and more often than not, it's the woman who leaves the workforce. In 2025, for the first time since 2021, a year when we were just starting to come out of the pandemic shutdown, there was an increase in the number of women leaving the workforce to care for family. 3.4% more women reported that caring for family was their reason for leaving their jobs in 2025 compared to 2024. Meanwhile, with scant evidence, the Trump administration is alleging fraud and freezing billions of dollars in federal childcare funds to several states. How many more families will have to make the hard decision for one parent to stay home to take care of the kids because childcare is unaffordable, and how many of those stay-at-home parents will be the mothers? Many families need two incomes to maintain financial security, and leaving the workforce, if only temporarily while their children are preschoolers, leads to reduced lifetime income and lower financial security in retirement for women. Employment gaps for women also contribute to the perpetuation of the gender pay gap.Pronatalists in the government would like to see women have more children in this country. Unaffordable childcare and policies that don't support working families are not likely to result in higher fertility rates.Read more: www.investopedia.com/as-childcare-costs-surpass-inflation-more-women-leave-the-labor-market-1 #ChildCareCrisisc#federalfundingfreezed#EconomicSecurityi#womensworkforceparticipationt#womenintheworkforceeworkforce ... See MoreSee Less

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