When Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America was published by the American Association of University Women in 1991, the issue of educational equity in education was brought to national attention. Following publication of this initial study, AAUW has actively promoted the issue nationwide. 

AAUW-California Action for Equity

AAUW-California began by sponsoring the California Roundtable on Educational Equity (1992), which gathered corporate and educational leaders to focus on this subject. The roundtable was followed by a national conference on educational equity co-sponsored by AAUW-California and Mills College (October 1992). 

In the 1993-94 legislature, AAUW-California sponsored AB1464 (Bronshvag). This bill would have required the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to survey teacher credentialing programs to determine the extent to which educational equity training was included and have adopted new program standards to assure that future teachers would have the skills and strategies to enable them to eliminate gender bias in their classrooms. The legislation passed both houses, but was vetoed by the Governor. Some of the purpose of this legislation was incorporated in revisions to the California Standards for the Teaching Profession.

In April 1996, AAUW-California sponsored a Teacher Training Roundtable which included 21 policy makers, educators, community activists, and representatives from universities and colleges. They concluded that while awareness of educational inequity in schools has been brought to a conscious level, actual action to rectify the unfair practices have been few and very slow. Educational equity must be incorporated into every aspect of curriculum as well as school activities and sports. 

Krys Wulff, AAUW California Past-President (Oakland-Piedmont, San Francisco and Stockton Branches), served on the California Department of Education's (CDE) Single Gender Academy Advisory Committee.  This committee advised the department regarding the effectiveness of the Single Gender Academies Pilot Program underway through 1999 in California. 

AAUW California is recognized by CDE as an organization having considerable interest and expertise in education, equity and youth issues and one that can provide a community-based perspective to the issues involved. 

Women's History Resources 

Gender Inn: Women's and Gender Studies Database (http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/
datenbank/e_index.htm) 
Focusing on feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature from 1950 to the present, this German database (available in English) describes over 5,000 works. 

National Women's History Project
(http://www.nwhp.org/) 
The National Women's History Project is a nonprofit organization, based in Windsor, CA, that is committed to providing education, promotional materials, and informational services to recognize and celebrate women's diverse lives and historic contributions to society. It is the source for updates about events, conferences, publications, films and other resources related to U.S. women's history. 

National Women's Hall of Fame
(http://www.greatwomen.org/) 
Begun in 1969, the Hall of Fame honors the history of the women's rights movement. It is located in Seneca Falls, NY, where the movement began 150 years ago. The site includes over 150 biographical sketches. 
 
Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics (http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~cwp/) 
This archive contains information about more than 50 women in the past century (to 1976) who have made original and important contributions to physics. Visitors can search the archive by name or by specific physics fields. A database of the print references used to compile information about the women cited is also available.