Whois & Analysis for aauw.org

The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research.

The organization has a nationwide network of 150,000 members, 1,500 branches, and 500 college and university partners.

Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C.

A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships (social relations) between individuals who share a distinctive culture and institutions; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent members.

In the social sciences, a larger society often evinces stratification or dominance patterns in subgroups.

The term empowerment refers to measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority.

Empowerment as action refers both to the process of self-empowerment and to professional support of people, which enables them to overcome their sense of powerlessness and lack of influence, and to recognize and use their resources.

Justice is the legal or philosophical theory by which fairness is administered.

The concept of justice differs in every culture.

An early theory of justice was set out by the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato in his work The Republic.

Advocates of divine command theory argue that justice issues from God.

In the 17th century, theorists like John Locke argued for the theory of natural law.

Thinkers in the social contract tradition argued that justice is derived from the mutual agreement of everyone concerned.

In the 19th century, utilitarian thinkers including John Stuart Mill argued that justice is what has the best consequences.

Theories of distributive justice concern what is distributed, between whom they are to be distributed, and what is the proper distribution.

Egalitarians argued that justice can only exist within the coordinates of equality.

John Rawls used a social contract argument to show that justice, and especially distributive justice, is a form of fairness.

An economy (From Greek οίκος – "household" and νęμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location.

Understood in its broadest sense, 'The economy is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use, and management of resources'.

Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments.

Economic transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency.

Monetary transactions only account for a small part of the economic domain.