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Links of Interest to Working Women

The following websites also provide information on issues of concern to women. Listing here does not imply AFL-CIO endorsement of any or all policies or positions of these organizations.

  • American Association of University Women
    AAUW promotes education and equity for all women and girls.
  • Berger-Marks
    Berger-Marks' mission is to bring the benefits of unionism to working women and provide resources, training and financial assistance to women organizers. Its website offers the latest news—updated regularly—including tips, tactics, legal issues, events, a multitude of resources and effective strategies women organizers use. Grants are available to support organizing efforts and related activities.
  • Business & Professional Women USA
    National organization promotes equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education and information.
  • Coalition of Labor Union Women
    CLUW is a membership organization of union women that works on organizing women, affirmative action in the workplace, political action and legislation, and increasing the participation of women within their unions.
  • Women Employed
    This national nonprofit organization works to improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity. 
  • Feminist Majority Fund
    The Feminist Majority was founded to promote women's empowerment through research, education and action.
  • Institute for Women's Policy Research
    A public policy research organization dedicated to informing and stimulating the debate on public policy issues of critical importance to women and their families.
  • Labor Project for Working Families
    The project works with unions to develop workplace policies for families through collective bargaining and public policy. Work and family issues include child care, elder care, family leave, flexible work schedules, mandatory overtime and more.
  • Ms. Foundation
    A national, multi-issue, public women's fund that supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them by funding and assisting women's self-help organizing efforts and pursuing changes in public consciousness, law, philanthropy and social policy. The foundation directs resources to break down barriers based on race, class, age, disability, sexual orientation and culture.
  • National Committee on Pay Equity
    A national coalition of some 180 organizations, NCPE works to eliminate sex- and race-based wage discrimination, and to achieve pay equity.
  • National Council of Negro Women
    NCNW's mission is to advance opportunities and the quality of life for African American women, their families and their communities.
  • National Council of Women's Organizations
    NCWO is a bipartisan network of more than 100 women's organizations.
  • National Organization for Women
    NOW's mission is to take action to "bring women into the full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men."
  • National Partnership for Women and Families
    The National Partnership uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
  • National Women’s Law Center
    The National Women’s Law Center uses a variety of tools to maximize its impact in bringing women's concerns to public policy makers, advocates and the public alike, including research, monitoring and analysis of public policy, litigation, advocacy, coalition-building, and public education.
  • 9to5, National Association of Working Women
    A national, grassroots membership organization, 9to5 strengthens women’s ability to work for economic justice.
  • Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor
    The Women's Bureau is the single unit at the federal government level exclusively concerned with serving and promoting the interests of working women.

 
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