AAUW Honolulu Annual Meeting Invitation |
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Please join us for this year's AAUW Honolulu Annual Meeting! |
Date: Thursday, June 24
Time: 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Where: On Zoom
Please use the button below to register in advance.
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This year’s meeting will feature exciting opportunities to hear from some of our scholarship recipients, grant awardees, and Girls Talk Back and Wahine Work Smart participants! You do not have to be a member to attend.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Spring 2021 Career Grant Awardees |
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Congratulations to our Spring 2021 Career and Leadership Development Grant Awardees!
Jesusa Jesica Au
Renzymeir Baloran
Tabithah Buentipo
Breaun Telefoni
Anuhea Wall
Caitlin Williams
In the coming months, we’ll be sharing more information about how awardees will be using their grants.
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Featured Scholarship Recipient:
Fiona Miranda
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Fiona Miranda, one of AAUW Honolulu's Academic Scholarship recipients, will be speaking at the AAUW Honolulu Annual Meeting on June 24.
“Receiving this scholarship allows me to focus more on my studies, my research, and the extracurricular activities that I am involved in. It also relieves much of my financial burden, since I pay for tuition by myself through part-time work,” she said.
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Girls Talk Back: Upcoming Showcases |
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Girls Talk Back, the leadership program for girls 14-18 years old and sponsored in collaboration with AAUW Honolulu Branch, Women’s Fund of Hawaii and Ceeds of Peace, will begin the third year of this community action opportunity on June 1, 2021. There are two cohorts participating this summer and each cohort will share their action plans to build peace in their communities at a virtual showcase.
The showcase for Cohort 1 will be Friday, July 2nd, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
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There are still spots left for additional girls to join Cohort 2
(June 29-July 23, 2021).
Use the button below to register by June 11, 2021. The showcase for Cohort 2 will be Friday, July 30th, 5-6:30 p.m. A link to register for this second Showcase will be sent in the July newsletter.
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AAUW Honolulu members and supporters are invited to attend these two showcases to see the results of this year’s Girls Talk Back participant plans to change the world! |
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June 23, 2021 marks the 49th anniversary of passing of the Title IX Amendment of the Higher Education Act.
Since its passage, Title IX, also known as the Patsy Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act, has been used to ensure that female athletes are given equal opportunities, that female students are given equal access to STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) classes, to protect the student survivors of sexual violence, and to ensure LGBTQ+ students are given equal opportunities and protection.
Between 1971 and 2007, the number of female high school athletes grew almost ten-fold; between 1971 and 2004, the number of female NCAA varsity athletes grew almost five fold (see AAUW library statistics). In 1970, 38% of all U.S. workers and 8% of STEM workers were women. By 2019, 48% of all workers and 27% of STEM workers were women (see U.S. Census statistics). Since its passage, Title IX had a positive impact on the lives of millions of women and girls.
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Ronja Steinbach, co-president of AAUW at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, penned an opinion editorial on Title IX for the Honolulu Star Advertiser this month, entitled "Improve campus sex-assault policies."
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Above: Congresswoman Patsy Mink is featured on the cover of TIME Magazine.
Image courtesy of TIME Magazine
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“We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences… to make sure that others do not have to suffer the same discrimination.”
— Congresswoman Patsy Mink
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