The report found that the student loan gender gap has nearly doubled in a recent four-year period; women now graduate with an average of $2,700 more debt than men when earning a bachelor's degree.
The American Association of University Women recently released a report, The Simple Truth About the Gender Pay Gap, that found working women collectively lose out on $500 billion a year because of the persistent gender pay gap.
An analysis of data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education under the Cleary Act by the American Association of University Women found that 91 percent of all 11,000 college and university campuses in the United States did not report any incident of rape during 2014.
An entire chapter of the study reports on the successful efforts of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, to increase the number of women seeking degrees in these traditionally male-dominated disciplines.
The American Association for University Women has identified seven colleges and universities that the group says empower women. The AAUW says that these seven schools are "making the world a more equitable place for women."
The program will pair up women students from the university's two-year Clermont College in Batavia with women at the university's main campus with the goal of encouraging Clermont women to move on into a four-year bachelor's degree program.
The report offers a wide variety of informative charts and tables on the status of women in community colleges. Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the 72-page report is "Meeting the Needs of Student Mothers." About 25 percent of the women enrolled in community colleges are mothers.
The American Association of University Women, founded in 1881, now has 150,000 members and supporters, 1,000 local chapters and 700 college and university partners.
The American Association of University Women teams up with Running Start, an organization that seeks to increase the number of women in political office.
