University of Washington chapter
American Association of 
University Professors  

Gender and Family Issues

Committee W on Women in the Academic Profession is one of the most active and important AAUP committees. Below are some of the key guidelines established AAUP as well as recent reports on the continuing salary  and promotion disparity within the profession.

• Statement of Principles on Family Responsibilities and Academic Work, (adopted by AAUP Council, November 2001)
  
  
• Resources on Balancing Family & Academic Work
  
  
• Women in the Academic Profession
  

• Disparities in the Salaries and Appointments of Academic Women and Men An Update of a 1988 Report of Committee W on the Status of Women in the Academic Profession
  
  
• Younger faculty and stopping the tenure clock AAUP policy guidelines
  
  
• Sexual harassment