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How do employment opportunities for women and minorities stand in Iowa? View the Iowa Workforce Development's 2008 Gender Equity Wage Study  

Where The Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity In Education
AAUW's newest report, the most comprehensive analysis to date on trends by gender, race, ethnicity, and income in education, was released on May 20. The report presents a comprehensive look at girls? educational achievement during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls? and boys? progress. A copy of the executive summary is available online at
http://www.aauw.org/research/upload/whereGirlsAre_execSummary.pdf

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AAUW DIAlog is AAUW's newest tool to connect to other members nationwide. Click on the title above to check it out. You may also subscribe to have it come to your mailbox whenever there is something new added and add your comment to the discussion.

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Iowa ranks 22nd in the nation in  Women's Sports Foundation's ranking of the Athletic Gender Gap for 2006-2007 See how the states compare in athletic participation of female and male high school students. Then, go to the  Women's Sports Foundation's website for their narrative report.

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When Girls Don't Graduate, We All Fail, National Women's Law Center's new report, finds that one in four girls drops out of school, and that the numbers are even worse for girls of color. Read the report.