Equal Dime for Equal Time
Building a Strong Economic Foundation for Tennessee Families

Thursday, March 24
5:45 p.m.
MT Center at Middle Tennessee State University
Sam Ingram Building
2269 Middle Tennessee Blvd. in Murfreesboro

 

Join AAUW Murfreesboro and AAUW Nashville for a panel discussion on the issue of Equal Pay for Equal Work. Free and open to the public! Reception to follow the panel.

Moderator: Holly Thompson, multiple Emmy Award and Associated Press Award-winning Journalist, co-anchors “Channel 4 News Today” and hosts “Channel 4 News at Noon,” WSMV-TV Nashville.

Panelists: Phyllis Qualls Brooks, Executor Director, Tennessee Economic Council on Women; State Representative John Ray Clemmons, District 55; State Representative Brenda Gilmore, District 54; Sylvia Hall, Supervisory Federal Investigator and Training, EEOC Nashville Area Office; Sarah L. Smith, Director EEOC Nashville Area Office; State Senator Jim Tracy, District 14; and Yvonne Wood, Advisory Committee of the Status of Women in the South. 

Sponsored by AAUW Nashville, AAUW Murfreesboro, Alpha Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, AWAKE Tennessee, Business and Professional Women of Tennessee, Davidson County Democratic Party, Davidson County Democratic Women, Jefferson Street United Merchant Partnership (J.U.M.P.), MTSU President’s Commission on the Status of Women, National Women's History Month Committee, MTSU, Rutherford County Democratic Women, Rutherford County League of Women Voters, Women in Higher Education in Tennessee WHET, Women’s Political Collaborative of Tennessee
 

March is National Women's History Month, and MTSU is celebrating with a series of events, speakers, and workshops, including AAUW's own panel on pay equity. Take advantage of the variety of programming happening this month! Click here for a full PDF calendar.

AAUW in the News
Tennessee Pay Equality Act Fails in House Subcommittee

 

The Tennessee Pay Equality Act, championed by AAUW of Tennessee, failed last Wednesday in the House Committee on Consumer and Human Resources with a vote along party lines.

Dia Cirillo, President of AAUW Murfreesboro and Public Policy Chair of AAUW-TN, argued the case for the bill. “Every family is impacted by a pay gap. What family would not welcome the opportunity that the woman in the family is being paid according to her qualifications?”

News Channel 2 segment (video)
DNJ article
Knoxville News Sentinel article
Nashville Scene article

The senate will vote on the Pay Equality Act, as well as as a separate piece of legislation dubbed the Pay Transparency Act, this Wednesday, March 16.



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Call for nominations!
 

AAUW Murfreesboro seeks to fill the board position of Vice President for Programming. The slate of candidates will be announced on April 12, and voting will take place at the May 12 branch meeting. The duties of the Program VP are as follows.

1. Presides at meetings in the absence or disability of the president.
2. Works with the president to appoint two members to the Program Committee.
3. Serves as chair of the Program Committee.
4. Submits a list of suggested programs for branch meetings (October, November, February, March, and April) for the board’s approval at the summer board meeting.
5. Introduces program speakers at meetings.
6. Keeps speaker gifts on hand and presents to speakers at meetings.
7. Performs such other duties as are requested by the president or board of directors.

A nominating comittee has been formed, comprising branch members Lee Anne Carmack, Kaylene Gebert, and Jennifer Sexton. Please direct interest or questions to Lee Anne, jlcarmack@gmail.com.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, so for our April Branch meeting we will hear a panel discussion, “Teaming Up: Coordinated Responses to Sexual Assault in Our Community.”  Invited panelists are Chief Buddy Peaster and Captain Jason Wofford from the MTSU Police Department; Kim Reynolds, a Sexual Assault Counselor and Advocate at the Domestic Violence Program and Sexual Assault Services in Murfreesboro; and Debbie Curtis, a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner at St. Thomas Rutherford.  Panelists will discuss current and ongoing initiatives to enhance responsiveness to sexual assault on the MTSU campus and in our community. Coordination of services is a key strategy for connecting victims with resources for healing.
 

Thursday, April 14
5:00-7:00 p.m.
MTSU Ingram Bldg, Room 101

Dinner will be served for a $5 donation for members and guests.
No charge for students.

Donations of cleaning supplies will be collected
for the Rutherford County Domestic Violence Program.

AAUW Murfreesboro is pleased to serve as a nominating organization for the Rutherford ATHENA Awards for the third consecutive year. The branch has nominated Nancy James, Public Policy Chair of AAUW Murfreesboro, for this prestigious leadership award. Additionally, the branch has nominated Rachel Forlines, Communications Officer of AAUW Murfreesboro, for the inaugural Rutherford ATHENA Young Professional Award. You can read a brief bio of both our nominees, along with the other outstanding candidates, here.

 

The ATHENA awardee will be announced at the annual award ceremony, April 28 at Stone's River Country Club. Please join us at the AAUW table to congratulate our nominees! Information on purchasing your tickets will be forthcoming.