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 AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund

The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund (LAF) works to combat sex discrimination in higher education and the workplace.

LAF works to combat sex discrimination through community and campus outreach programs, a resource library and online advocacy tools, and various research reports. In collaboration with the Public Policy and Government Relations department, LAF seeks amicus curiae opportunities in cases of discrimination that disadvantage women in the workplace. LAF is also transitioning toward supporting landmark sex discrimination cases that have the potential to make a difference for all women.

 


The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund has been supporting litigants in  academia for 27 years.  In that time we have supported more than 100 cases.  In February of 2008 a joint meeting of AAUW and AAUW EF (LAF is a program of AAUW EF) voted to transition LAF to a strategy that is more in alignment with our MISSION

 

Equity for Women and Girls through Advocacy, 

Education and Research.            

 

All women have a fair chance in the employment arena.  Discrimination, violations of the Civil Rights Act occur everywhere, not just in academia.  Several of the existing programs now in place: 

Campus Outreach  

Online Resource      

Library Legal Referral Network                     

Plaintiff Travel Grants

The new area of focus will be support of strategic cases and will help insure that our investments have substantial impact in our fight for workplaces that are free from sex discrimination.  Continued member funding for LAF is essential.  It is more important now than it was before.                                             

Min Chan

AAUW Manhattan

LAF VP