Pay Equity Starts With You— Start Smart Work Smart
Let AAUW Lead the Way!
If you are applying for your first job or reentering the job market, or an employee getting ready to ask for a raise or promotion, build your self-confidence and sharpen your salary negotiation skills by attending one of our workshops or taking the free on-line AAUW Work Smart course.
AAUW Work Smart is designed to help you negotiate for a new job, raise, or promotion. In every workshop you’ll gain confidence in your negotiation style through facilitated discussion and role-play and learn.
AAUW’s goal is for 10 million women to be trained in salary negotiation by 2022. Click on the icon below take the free online one-hour course!
Our April 18, 2020 workshop was postponed due to COVID-19. However, as you practice social-distancing, please take a moment to read the inspiring essay from a local 5th grader who will be our guest at our StartSmart/WorkSmart workshop when rescheduled. Her message calls for pay equity and a shining example of the young women in the pipepline to assume future leadership roles. Here are the links to her cover letter and essay:
Rozi letter
Rozi essay v2
AUW Start Smart is specifically designed to teach you how to negotiate salaries for a new job. In every workshop you’ll gain confidence in your negotiation style through facilitated discussion and role-play and learn:
- How to identify and articulate your personal value.
- How to develop an arsenal of persuasive responses and other negotiation strategies, including how to get a raise or promotion.
- How to conduct objective market research to benchmark a target salary and benefits.
- About the wage gap, including its long-term consequences.
Click on these underlined items for links to articles on why negotiation so important. AAUW’s research on the gender pay gap shows that, one year out of college, women are already paid significantly less than their male counterparts. Women who work full time take home 80 cents for every dollar a full-time male worker is paid. And over a lifetime, those lost potential earnings add up.
Why is negotiation so important? AAUW’s research on the gender pay gap shows that, one year out of college, women are already paid significantly less than their male counterparts — in 2009, women one year out of college who were working full time were paid, on average, just 80 percent of what their male peers were paid. And those lost potential earnings add up over a lifetime.
Women who negotiate increase their potential to earn higher salaries and better benefits packages. By negotiating fair and equitable salaries, you’ll be better able to pay off loans, buy the things you want and need, and even save for retirement.