Advocacy – HHL Priorities

AAUW’s Public Policy Priorities Guide Our AAUW HHL Ohio Branch

Since AAUW’s founding, our members and supporters have spoken out about policies important to women and girls. Without their voices, invaluable legislation would have never been passed. AAUW’s policy work connects and rallies us to advocate at the local, state, national, and global levels to advance our work to empower women and girls.

AAUW’s Public Policy Priorities, adopted every two years by every-member vote, establish the federal action issues on which AAUW members across the country focus their advocacy efforts and guide the work of the national staff. Read and download the current Public-Policy-Priorities.

HHL Favors Eliminating the Degree Requirement

Maybe so, maybe no. We need to vote now. Our record last time needs to be improved.

HHL Action on the Equal Rights Amendment

Forty years ago, Euclid, Ohio resident and AAUW Ohio President May Bana wrote an opinion on ERA to the Lake County News-Herald. It was published under the full-page headline “Women cannot have equality without the ERA.” Written in the style of the time, what she wrote is still so true today. Urge your members of the House and Senate to remove the arbitrary deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (S.J. Res. 4/H.J. Res. 25) as the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and give women equal rights before the law.

HHL’s Current Advocacy

HHL wants equal rights for all people and for the Equal Rights Amendment to be recognized as ratified and to be formally entered as part of the US Constitution. As we study and align a group to make this effective, we participate in smaller projects such as

  • shirts for migrant workers
  • expanding our knowledge of other cultures in our community

 

 

 

  • jeans for immigrants
  • building a social media following to advocate for AAUW priorities.

Recap– Previously, AAUW-HHL’s local advocacy promoted

  • gender fairness, equity, and diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education by supporting math and science camps and conferences for local girls
  • an end to trafficking in humans
  • campus connections that encourage student opportunities for leader training, pay equity strategies, access to fellowships and grants, and relationships with the Cleveland community
  • family life issues
  • Action and voter education on our issues of interest in the Ohio Legislature and those involving education

Our successful New Little Book Project helped equity of access to education by raising Ohio Graduation Test (OGT) scores in social studies.