TheEducational Foundation provides funds to advance education, research and self-development for women.

The AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund provides funding and a support system for women seeking judicial redress for sexual discrimination.

Membership in AAUW is open to graduates holding an associate or equivalent, baccalaureate, or higher degree from qualified educational institutions that have full regional or appropriate professional association approval.

An associate degree is a degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges, and bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities in the US and Canada upon the conclusion of a course of study equivalent to the first two years in a four-year college or university. An associate degree includes associate of arts (AA), associate of science (AS), associate of applied science (AAS), associate of arts and sciences (AA&S), and associate of applied arts (AAA … usually in music or commercial art).

The equivalent of an associate degree is an academic degree or diploma awarded by a qualified institution such as a business college or a hospital which may not be called "associate degree" but has the same academic requirements or greater. Examples of an equivalent degree are two- or three-year RN diplomas, usually based in a hospital or community college.

Graduates of certificate programs do not qualify because the course requirements for a certificate are not equal in academics to those required for the associate degree.

There shall be no barriers to full participation in this organization on the basis of gender, class, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin or disability.