AAUW - Sarasota, Florida

11/14/2024

The girls were sponsoring for softball

10/07/2024

Our team

10/07/2024

Our team photos from first game

01/07/2022

Peggy Guggenheim, outcast of her powerful family, is brought to life by Baila Miller

Historians, art buffs, and life-long learners are invited to a program entitled “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict” on Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 2 pm in the Venice Community Center, 326 Nokomis Ave. South. Presented by Baila Miller and hosted by Venice AAUW, (American Association of University Women) the event is fund-raiser for non-traditional scholarships.

Tickets, $25 each, are available at AAUW Venice (FL) Branch and at the door prior to the event. Proceeds will fund scholarships awarded to area women who are re-entering college after an unforeseen interruption in their studies.

Baila Miller, art educator and owner of Miller Music and Fine Art Programs, research's lesser-known people and events in the art world and brings them to life in multi-media presentations. Regarding Peggy Guggenheim, Baila states, “I was intrigued by her gutsy willingness to champion surrealist artists, despite her family’s disapproval and the fact that many of the artists were in Nazi-controlled France. Come to the program and learn how Peggy Guggenheim singlehandedly helped cement the United States as the new capital of art!”

Support women and enjoy a great presentation. Buy your tickets now.

11/22/2021

Eileen Linxwiler, a lifetime member of AAUW Sarasota, celebrated her 95th birthday. We helped her celebrate with her favorite chocolate birthday cake and some bubbly. Celebrating with Eileen were Sue McGowan, Diana Sells, Joan Koch and Jackie Zukley and all while enjoying an afternoon of bridge.

01/11/2021

Women's Resource Center CEO Ashley Brown writes that women and minorities continue to be impacted by economic inequality in Sarasota County.

Check out this story on heraldtribune.com: https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/2021/01/06/sarasota-countys-economic-gap-continues-impact-women-minorities/4139366001/

10/19/2020

The AAUW Sarasota Branch is releasing a new study, Aging, Women and Economic Insecurity In Sarasota County, Florida by Dr. Mary Gatta and Jessica Horning, MSSW. https://sarasota-fl.aauw.net/economic-security-2/. Funding for this research was provided by the Margaret L. Bates Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and members of AAUW Sarasota.

In addition, Dr. Gatta and Ms. Horning have produced a companion report Gender and Race Intersections Matter: Older Women’s Economic Insecurity in Sarasota County, Florida ) that extends the results of the original report and responds to some of the social justice issues of our time.

On Wednesday October 21, 2020 at 2:00pm, Dr. Mary Gatta will be presenting the results of the research at our virtual AAUW Sarasota Branch meeting. Please join us for the presentation and a discussion of the research on Zoom. Meeting ID: 483 569 4589

https://sarasota-fl.aauw.net/economic-security-2/

ECONOMIC SECURITY The AAUW Sarasota Branch supported research on Aging, Women and Economic Insecurity In Sarasota County, Florida (Link) by Dr. Mary Gatta and Jessica Horning, MSSW. AGING, WOMEN AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY IN SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA Funding for this research was provided by the Margare...

07/27/2020

Join us as we advocate for equal pay on Black Women Equal Pay Day, August 13th. This day symbolizes the day in 2020 that Black women must work to earn what their White male counterparts earned in 2019. Please help the branch support pay equality.

Advocate and Educate
Write a letter to your local newspaper editor about Black Women Equal Pay Day. Try to include a local angle and end with a call to action. You can also create your own letter adding your personal touch and including a few noteworthy findings from the research.

Noteworthy Findings from AAUW-Sponsored Research:
"Working Black Women in Florida and Economic Insecurity:
A Story of Gender and Racial Inequality"
Mary Gatta, PhD and Jessica Horning, MSSW

• This research uses a realistic index of economic security that is based on family type and allows for some savings. It is a better benchmark than the federal poverty level.
• Black women experience the highest levels of economic insecurity in Florida, relative to other race/sex groups.
• 46% of Black full-time workers lacked economic security even though they worked full-time.
• In Florida, 66% of all Black women and half of Black full-time working women do not earn enough to reach economic security for their family type.
• 90% of Black single mothers fall below economic insecurity even though they are employed.
• Occupational segregation helps explain the pay gap. In Florida the top three occupations where Black women are concentrated are: nursing, psychiatric and home health aides; customer service representatives; and cashiers. These occupations are typically low paying with little opportunity for employment-based benefits or retirement savings.
• 70% of Florida Black women who work full-time as nursing, psychiatric and home health aides and 70% of those who work as customer service representatives are economically insecure.

Top Recommendations
• Find ways to open higher-paying careers to Black women.
• Raise the minimum wage and subminimum tipped wage in Florida.
• Provide paid leave and paid sick days to all Florida workers.

05/22/2020

Have you read the third of the research series by Dr. Mary Gatta? The full report is here:

05/20/2020

Ellen Roche and Diana Sells had a letter to the editor of Sarasota Herald Tribune published on Tuesday, May 19. It reads:

By winning the vote, women changed history
In “The true flu precedent” on May 15, Chris Doyle concluded that World War I and the Spanish flu disillusioned the country and ignited xenophobia and racism. But after a 72-year battle, women won the right to vote when Congress passed the 19th Amendment in 1919 and 36 states ratified it by 1920.

In this year of pandemic and the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of this historic expansion of suffrage, historians continue to ignore the important roles that women played in our history. Women rolled bandages and sold war bonds. The 1918-19 flu limited rallies but women persevered even as their ranks were reduced by illness and the need to nurse others.
In November 1918, due to their efforts, pro-suffrage lawmakers were elected and suffrage referendums were passed in several states.

According to “The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote,” by Elaine Weiss, “They used all the tools of democracy and learned to use the system to change the system.” When telling the story of the Spanish flu, remember that women mattered then and now. Include them in our history.
Diana Sells, president, Ellen Roche, past president, AAUW Sarasota

01/24/2020

Members from AAUW branches from all over Florida. AAUW was well represented at Florida legislature 2020 lobby days. Among those attending, to encourage our representatives to support women's issues, were Diana Sells, our President and Ellen Roche, our immediate Past President