MARIN BRANCH TOWN HALL FOR UPCOMING NATIONAL ELECTION |
|
If you have questions about the proposal to eliminate the degree requirement this bonus meeting is for you! |
|
Tuesday, March 2nd at 5:00 p.m.
As previously announced, we will have a bonus meeting this month Tuesday, March 2 at 5:00 p.m. to learn about and discuss the AAUW Board’s proposal to eliminate the degree requirement to join AAUW. Dale Satake, Chair of the National Advancement Committee and AAUW Fund Chair for AAUW Marin, and Cherie Sorokin, National Board Secretary and AAUW Marin Program Chair, will walk us through the rationale, pro and con comments that have been expressed by members across the country, and respond to your questions.
Here are questions that members have been posing. You may have more.
- AAUW has been this way a long time. Why change now?
- Won't dropping the degree requirement end what is unique about our organization and our like-minded nature?
- Don't we need to honor the legacy of our founding mothers?
- Won't we have to change our name if we drop the degree requirement?
Members of Petaluma and Novato branches have also been invited to join. Please RSVP to aauwmarin@gmail.com to help us plan for how many will be attending. The link for the meeting is below, and a reminder will be sent on Tuesday morning.
Zoom link for our meeting on Tuesday, March 2, at 5:00 pm
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 892 6148 8803
Passcode: 984937
One tap mobile
+16699009128,,89261488803#,,,,*984937# US (San Jose)
+13462487799,,89261488803#,,,,*984937# US (Houston)
Dial by your location
+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)
Can’t make this meeting? On Wednesday, March 17 at 7:00 pm Cherie will also be speaking to the AAUW SF branch on the same topic and our members are invited to attend that meeting. Contact Cherie if you would like to attend March 17.
|
|
Equal Pay Day is March 24th!
Support the Paycheck Fairness Act
The next Equal Pay Day is Wednesday, March 24, 2021. This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. Women working full time in the United States are typically paid just 82% of what men are paid, and the gap is even wider for many women of color.
As the 117th Congress takes on the great many challenges facing the American people during this historic time, we must ensure that the fight to close the gender pay gap is a key priority.
AAUW has worked for decades to enact the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would update the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and give us important tools to close the pervasive pay gap. The House of Representatives passed the legislation with bipartisan support during the 116th Congress, but it stalled in the Senate. This year, both chambers must act to send this critical bill to President Biden’s desk, so it can finally become federal law.
- Prohibit employers from relying on salary history to set wages.
- Close loopholes that have weakened the law over time to allow employers to justify paying workers unfairly.
- Create more robust remedies for those who have suffered discrimination.
- Prevent employers from retaliating against workers who discuss or disclose their wages.
- Provide much needed training and technical assistance, as well as data collection and research.
|
|
Celebrate the Tremendous Efforts by Women and Girls Around the World to Shape a More Equitable Future
|
|
AAUW Marin Scholarship Fund Board Announces Scholarships
The AAUW Marin Scholarship Fund Board is pleased to announce that, with the donations made in response to our Fall appeal and the proceeds of the December Silent Auction, funding has been approved to award $12,000 in college scholarships ($6,000 for Dominican University and $6,000 for College of Marin), to support three NCCWSL attendees and to add to our two endowments. (The three accomplished NCCWSL attendees will be profiled in next month's newsletter.) Scholarships for this summer’s Virtual Tech Trek will be funded from money previously sent to AAUW CA. Additional funds are held in the Scholarship Fund’s reserves for the 2022 Tech Trek.
|
|
Meet Nancy Greenfield longtime AAUW Member |
|
I moved eleven times in New York State through college at State University of New York at Oswego, and my two years of teaching elementary grades outside Schenectady. Then I moved to San Francisco and taught in Daly City while going to school for my credential(six moves in five years). My husband and I and our infant daughter moved from there to Terra Linda where I was introduced to AAUW by a neighbor, Leona Robinson. I joined in 1973, initially attending the Sandbox group and the child development group. Helga Epstein was the president in 1974 when our study topic was "Women Searching for Self". When I asked about the group that was to form around that topic, she suggested that I organize the group, which I did with three or four other women. Topics on assertiveness, women in media, League of Women Voters and National Women's Political Caucus and many more were organized with speakers. Our group averaged twenty-five in attendance each time.
Through the years, I've served on the Board and was Co-president with Eleanor Kellogg Smith. I attended reading groups, dinner groups, poker, ukulele, and more. I sang and acted in our comic opera "Sex and the Assembly". I was the AAUW Representative on the Woman's Hall of Fame Committee. All of these activities were while I studied for classes for my MBA and worked at the County of Marin as an accountant.
This year I'm in the Nonfiction Book Group and Behind the Headlines. I attend Olli Dominican classes usually on politics, history, and rock and roll. I've submitted entries to the IJ on "Six Word Stories", and have submitted cartoons and Zentangle-like designs to the Marin County Fair for six years. I have loved being in AAUW all these years. It has been such a positive force in my life with activities and friendships!
|
|
Welcome New Member Shahla Chehrazi |
|
After being introduced to the Marin branch of AAUW by Afaf Meleis, Shahla Chehrazi decided to join. Dr. Chehrazi received an MD from Tehran University Medical School in Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatry & Psychoanalysis. She volunteers in the teaching and supervision of residents at CPMC,is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF, on the faculty for the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and is a mentor/ volunteer for Friends of Children. Shahla also enjoys hiking, reading and the theatre. |
|
AAUW 2021 Tri-Branch Luncheon
“Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, and Climate Change”
Saturday March 20
11:00 AM
ZOOM link will be sent on March 19
This year the Novato Branch is coordinating the annual Tri-Branch Luncheon when the Petaluma, Novato and Marin branches meet to share a meal, ideas, and strategies. This year we will, of course, be meeting via ZOOM. We will have time to “mingle” and talk about the past and coming year. You are also welcome to make a “Lunch for One” using the suggested recipes. We’ll have our lunch while being inspired by Dr Cynthia Boaz who will talk about how access to reproductive rights impacts quality of life, emphasizing the connection to current events from voting rights to climate change.
Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Boaz, PhD, Professor, Sonoma State University
Dr Boaz is a Professor at Sonoma State University. Her expertise is in nonviolent strategy, civil resistance, quality of democracy, and political communication and media.
Strawberry Poppy Seed Salad with Chicken
Scone
Apple Pie Parfait
|
|
Women Leadership and Philanthropy Council |
|
WLPC, one of the groups that co-sponsored our program on racial discrimination in Marin, is hosting a follow up panel with four career women in Marin talking about discrimination they have faced in their lives. Our own Dale Satake is one of the panelists. As the daughter of Japanese domestic workers after World War II, Dale will bring her perspective and experience as the object of racial discrimination.
This program is in honor of Women’s History Month and AAUW Marin is a co-sponsor. Information on how to sign up for this program is not yet available, but we will send a separate email out when we receive it. Meanwhile, save the date and time. March 16th, noon to 1:30 via zoom.
|
|
Interest Group Activities |
|
There are twelve interest groups available through AAUW Zoom for the foreseeable future. The newly revised list of current offerings is available on our AAUW Marin web site. If you are not currently a member of any particular interest group and would like to join one or more, please email the leader and/or Board Member Olivia Ruel.
All members are invited to try out any group for a session or two before joining as a regular member. This social opportunity seems to be appreciated by those of us confined to home during this ongoing pandemic. Visit us!
|
|
Don't Miss Happy Hour March 4th!
A Zoom Happy Hour will be held on Thursday, March 4th 4:30 -6:00 PM (Feel free to join in any time between 4:30 and 6:00 PM)
If you are interested in joining contact Dottie Burk and she will send you an invitation.
|
|
Behind the Headlines
Wednesday March 10 at 6:00 pm -7:00 pm
Topic is the Black White wealth gap. Speaker will be Jon Haveman, founder of the National Economic Education Delegation and also a frequent teacher on economics at Olli at Dominican. If you aren’t already member of the Behind the Headlines email list, please email Cherie Sorokin if you wish to attend this meeting.
|
|
Reading Arts
Reading Arts meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month at 7 PM. They will be meeting on March 24th to discuss Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House.
If you are interested in joining contact Ann Jessup.
|
|
Book Lovers Group
The Book Lovers Group welcomes new members to join them. They will meet via Zoom on March 9th at 1:00 PM to discuss The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.
|
|
LitWits
The LitWits meet the third Wednesday of each month at 10 AM, which this month is March 17th.
They are reading All the Names by Jose Saramago.
|
|
The Nonfiction Book Group
The Nonfiction Group will meet on
March 22th 1:00 PM. The book they will discuss is Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
For more information or to join this group:
|
|
New Yorker Reading Group
This group meets the second Thursday of the month, March 11 at 1:00 pm to discuss articles selected from recent issues of The New Yorker. Please contact Phyllis Kuehn for a list of the articles we are reading and discussing in our next meeting for the Zoom login information. Olivia Ruel is co-leader of this new interest group.
|
|
Mah Jongg
The Mah Jongg interest group has been playing and staying connected for several months via Zoom and Myjongg.net. They meet Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 PM. If you already know how to play Mah Jongg and would like to join them, contact Chris O’Neill. If you don’t know how to play and would like to learn, Nancy Chiu has offered to teach you using the Myjongg.net website. Contact Nancy. You will need a 2020 National Mah Jongg League card to play.
|
|
Movie Group
The movie group is meeting on the fourth Tuesday, March 23. If you would like to join this group contact Susan Gilardi.
|
|
Golf Group
The golf group is back in gear and playing.
|
|
Crafts Group
The Crafts Group meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 12:30 PM. This month the meeting will be on March 19th. Contact
|
|
Become a member of the AAUW Legacy Circle by making a planned gift to AAUW. The gift will affirm your commitment to expanding AAUW programs and public policy agenda the future of women and girls. These gifts can be given to AAUW's general fund or directed to your preferred program.
AAUW seeks to increase our long-term financial resources to help continue our important work. Members of the Legacy Circle help that expansion through their planned gifts.
Questions? Read more about the Legacy Circle, review the brochure or contact the Director, Major and Planned Giving at 202.785.7766.
|
|
Donate to AAUW's Greatest Need Fund |
|
Join Us to Make an Impact for Women and Girls
|
|
JOIN MARIN AAUW ON SOCIAL MEDIA! |
|
The AAUW Marin Branch Newsletter is published monthly.
Editor: Dianne Sheridan
|
|
© 2019 AAUW
AAUW is a top-rated 501(c)(3) charity. Donations are tax deductible.
|
|
PLEASE NOTE IF YOU HIT THE UNSUBSCRIBE BUTTON BELOW YOU WILL NO LONGER RECEIVE AAUW MARIN NEWSLETTERS. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
