Our mission is bold? to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. We are not satisfied to simply document and discuss the inequities women and girls face. AAUW aims to achieve equity through practical solutions in education, workplaces, and communities.

In keeping with our mission to advance gender equity for all women and girls, AAUW's new strategic plan is focused on four macro areas of work: Education & Training, Economic Security, Leadership, and Governance & Sustainability. Three of these focal areas are mission-based, and one— Governance and Sustainability— is foundational in our ability to run the organization with best practices, innovation, and strengthened fiscal sustainability. Keeping our mission forefront will ensure we have properly addressed the policy and advocacy work, the programs to develop and scale, and the operating model needed to ensure real impact. For example, for the Economic Security area, AAUW has set a goal to achieve pay equity by 2030. We will accomplish this by working with partners in three essential areas: training 10 million women across the nation in salary negotiation, working with employers to improve workplace practices and working on the municipal, state and national levels to champion pay equity legislation.

AAUW has the network, the skills, and the people? more than 170,000 members and supporters ? to achieve our mission. With 1,000 branches doing advocacy and programmatic work across the country, AAUW is a force for advancing equity for women and girls. Every strategy and every tactic reflects the direction, leadership, and participation of our members? dedicated women and men who are determined to fight for gender equity.

AAUW is defined by our ability to achieve impact. Our staff, members, partners, and stakeholders will be driven by quantifiable and qualitative metrics on each of the strategic plan goals and objectives for the next three to five years. Annually, we will produce a report on our progress and next steps to demonstrate how we’ve advanced gender equity. Given the bold nature of the plan and the need to collaborate with policy makers and other constituencies, we will work on each goal phased in over time in a dynamic way to produce results.

AAUW is proud of its achievements in 2018, which include: • Unveiling a free, online Work Smart course— available at salary. aauw. org— that can be taken in an hour by anyone, anywhere. The new tool is instrumental in our efforts to train 10 million women in salary negotiation by 2022 and help close the pay gap by 2030. • Joining Mayor Sly James and the Women’s Foundation to launch Work Smart in Kansas City, the first phase of a large-scale initiative to train 1 million women to negotiate for better salaries across Kansas and Missouri. • Working with city and state leaders to ban the use of salary history in hiring, a practice that puts women at a significant financial disadvantage due to prior discrimination. Governors signed executive orders prohibiting the practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and legislators enacted laws in Louisville, Kentucky; Kansas City, Missouri; and Salt Lake City, Utah. • Releasing the 2018 the Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, which found that women working full time are still paid, on average, only 80 cents for every dollar paid to a man— a figure that has changed by less than a nickel during the 21st century. Two other research reports updated this year documented that women remain vastly underrepresented in top nonprofit positions and are disproportionately affected by student debt. We are particularly focused on the Economic Security area of focus over the next year, which will include the training of millions of women around the country in salary negotiation, fighting back threats to Title IX protections and expanding leadership opportunities for women in the non-profit and educational sectors.