Los Angeles County LACIC: Alhambra-San Gabriel, Antelope Valley, Beach Cities, East San Gabriel Valley, Glendale, Greater Whittier Area, La Palma-Cerritos, Long Beach, Palos Verdes Peninsula, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley, Santa Clarita Valley, Torrance
LACIC is a district liaison group working within AAUW California and is formed to provide assistance to help meet district needs for branches is Los Angeles County, including membership recruitment and retention, mission-based program planning, and leadership training. Deanna Arthur, is the current chair and hosts a Zoom meeting 4 times a year to which all GWA-AAUW members are welcome to attend. They always have a relevant and interesting speaker or topic for discussion. It’s another opportunity to communicate with other AAUW members and learn from other local branches. The next meeting will be in January 12, 2025 at 2 PM. See the January newsletter for further details.
Charmen Goehring, AAUW CA State President was the speaker for the November meeting. She shared her insights on what AAUW CA has accomplished and what plans are in the works for the next 18 months in DEI, Public Policy, the last Speech Trek, the School Board Project, and member retention. A topic of interest to all was how to present a more relevant and interactive AAUW for younger women. She also shared a list of awesome accomplishments over the years by members and women associated with AAUW. You can also visit https://www.aauw.org/about/history/
What AAUW members have accomplished
1920 AAUW donated one gram of radium for Marie Curie, 1st person and only woman to win Nobel Prize twice
1888 Since 1888, $115 million given in fellowships and grants ($6.1 million in 2023) largest non-institutional funder of grad level education
1936 Eleanor Roosevelt, invited AAUW member Mary Ritter Beard, to the White House. They subsequently worked to launch the World Center for Women’s Archives
1945 Beginning of efforts to pass Equal Pay Act of 1963
1972 Title IX introduced and sponsored by Reps Edith Green and Patsy Mink-AAUW members
1993 Family Medical Leave Act
2009 Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act- President Obama’s first bill
1976 AAUW granted Permanent UN Observer status
2008 UN status upgraded to Special Consultative Status with UN, giving AAUW a voice
2015 Since the beginning, almost 200,000 people have gone through our $mart $tart or Work $mart salary negotiation workshops including both Boston and SF city workers
Notable members
Jeanette Raskin First woman elected to Congress
Shirley Chisholm First Black woman elected to Congress and 1st woman to run for Presidential nomination from major party
Marjorie Child Husted Created Betty Crocker
Sarah Tilghman Hughes First woman appointed judge in Texas, then swore in Lyndon B. Johnson after JFK assassination
Lou Henry Hoover First Lady, twice-president of Girl Scouts of America, strong advocate for women in sports, vice-president of the National Amateur Athletic Federation in the 1920s with a challenge to organize a women’s division
Mary Church Terrell Became the first Black member of AAUW after winning an anti-discrimination lawsuit, and continued her activism to integrate all of AAUW
Janet Reno First woman to serve as United States Attorney General
Nancy Pelosi United States Congresswoman and first woman Speaker of the House
