A summary of how AAUW’s issues fared in 2007.

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See www.aauw.org/advocacy/issue_advocacy/voter_ed/ for more information on what to do NOW!

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Information from NC Women United, including a link to an op-ed piece on funding for abstinence-only sex education, a link to the NC NOW reproductive rights signature ad, and information on a Charlotte/Mecklenburg Women’s Summit.

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Thanks to our coalition partners, League of Women Voters, the following is an excellent source of information on the important issue of immigration.

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A recent National Academies report, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, found that women repeatedly face biases in academia in the science fields, and that these barriers to success discourage them from careers in these areas. In response to this report, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) recently introduced the Gender Bias Elimination Act (H.R. 3514).
Learn more and contact your representative

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Posted by Diversity Chair Queen Thompson to the AAUW NC e-mail list, and discussed by her at the AAUW NC Fall meeting, Oct. 20.
Please contact Queen for more information or reply to her post on the e-mail list to start a discussion.

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Background information on the Violence Against Women and Victims of Crime Act. Action is needed this week and next!

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Today, Action for Children North Carolina and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine are pleased to announce the publication of the 2007 North Carolina Child Health Report Card, which demonstrates that while North Carolina’s efforts to ensure positive health outcomes for children and youth have shown improvement in many areas, there is still cause for concern.

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NC State Women’s Center, Saint Augustine’s College, and Shaw University are sponsoring this area’s first Running & Winning workshop on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at Peace College in Raleigh. This interactive workshop is designed to give young women in high school and college the opportunity to explore public service as a career. During the session, participants will meet with local women office holders and explore their own leadership abilities.

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The following two MS Word files were developed to collect candidate responses to a set of questions developed for educating voters to issues and candidates for the 2006 election.   
These documents use MS Word “form” features to set limits on input text and to control what fields are completed.  To modify these forms for your use,

click on the file link below. 
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