AAUW-Quincy, IL Branch

09/26/2026

President Ellen conducting the business meeting and sharing visions for our Branch.

09/26/2026

Katie Kraushaar is speaking about Quincy as a City of Refuge. Her presentation connects AAUW with one of our pillars of social justice and civil rights. Katie is the Dean of the Brenner Library at Quincy University.

09/25/2026

08/28/2026

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/08/26/what-does-womens-equality-day-really-commemorate-the-answer-goes-beyond-1920/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=20260826-daily&lctg=93148511&user_id=a1b9b921455ee418f172c88856278f53516dad558f6afbf3f73a91fd443425dc

Trace how the women’s movement of the 1970s carried the unfinished work of suffrage from the streets of New York to Congress and the White House.

07/04/2026

Friends:

Here is the present info on the Book Club. We are going to start meeting at 1 pm. Please note the change for the time. Still at the Quincy Public Library

July 13 The CIA Book Club Margaret
Aug. 10 The Guardian and the Thief Lynn
Sept. 14 Water and Fire Annette
Oct. 12 Grey Mountain Lorraine
Nov. 9 Girl With the Pearl Earring Margaret

When we meet July 13, we will do a bit of reorganizing.
Please join us!

06/20/2026

AAUW stands for economic stability.
Ensuring equal pay and benefits for work of equivalent value, and addressing root causes of occupational segregation
Addressing the multiple factors that reinforce the gender and racial pay gaps, through increasing salary transparency, eliminating salary history to set future wages, increasing the minimum wage, and other policies that mitigate the gender pay gap
Enforcing and expanding employment discrimination statutes

A new book by journalist Josie Cox charts women’s fight to close the gender pay gap and the legal and social hurdles faced along the way. "Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality" highlights the women who challenged norms in that quest for equality. Amna Nawaz sat down with Cox a...

05/27/2026

The Bakeless Bake Sale has raised $1500 toward our scholarships for women in higher education. There is still time to make a donation! Send you donations to Donna Parker by June 15. (a gentle reminder, that no actual baked goods are being sold)

05/20/2026

AAUW is proud to financially support women in higher education. President Margie Humphreys is with Gabi Cisna, our Quincy University AAUW scholarship recepient.