I am more surprised by the comments following “Catcalling: creepy or a compliment?,” the CNN article highlighting research by our own Holly Kearl in which 98 percent of those surveyed responded that they have experienced some form of street harassment, than by the research itself. The idea that most women she surveyed have been a [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Blaming the Skirt
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged catcalling, Equal Pay, victim blaming on May 16, 2008, | 3 Comments »
Out of the Rubble
Posted in Women & Economic Security, tagged CARE, care.org, cyclone, earthquake, food crisis, katrina on May 14, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
As catastrophes like the world food crisis, the deadly Myanmar cyclone, and the earthquake in China continue to grab headlines, I am grateful to see international attention being paid to these issues. Better to have all that newspaper ink devoted to these tragedies than to the latest gossip surrounding Mariah Carey’s marriage status. As these [...]
Abysmal Graduation Rates
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged achievement gap, America's Promise Alliance, American Idol, education, ged, graduation, Gretchen Wilson, High School on May 13, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
The other day I happened to catch a brief blurb in the news about country singer Gretchen Wilson achieving her GED at age 34. One of the main reasons she cited for obtaining her degree, after having dropped out of school in ninth grade, was that she did not want her seven-year-old daughter to believe [...]
Equity in the News
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged gender profiling, pregnancy, rape, sports on May 12, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Equity in the News from May 2 – May 12, 2008 Men, concentrated in the weakest sectors, are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains. At least 54 more women are accusing Bloomberg L.P., the financial-services and media company founded by [New York City] Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, of discriminating against pregnant employees, [...]
The Value of a Mother
Posted in Women and Work, tagged gender pay gap, Mother's Day, pay equity, salary, work on May 9, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Cooking dinner? $14 per hour Cleaning the house? $10 per hour Healing a scraped knee? $29 per hour Being a stay-at-home mom? $117,000 per year (or $68,000 for working moms) That’s the monetary compensation calculated by Salary.com, a provider of on-demand compensation software and data, in its annual Mom Salary Survey for the time spent [...]
Honoring Phyllis Schlafly?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, tagged academia, activism, anti-feminist, Equal Rights Amendment, feminism, Schlafly, Title IX, Washington University on May 9, 2008, | 10 Comments »
As an AAUW member and alumna of Washington University in St. Louis, I was outraged to learn that the university is awarding Phyllis Schlafly an honorary degree at graduation. Schlafly has campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment, gender bias laws, and Title IX. She is not just controversial; she is clearly anti-woman. For example, according [...]
Pregnancy Discrimination Today
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Bloomberg LP, jobs, Legal Advocacy Fund, maternity leave, motherhood, pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination, reproductive rights on May 7, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
When my grandmother became pregnant with my mother, her first child, she was fired from her job. My grandfather was still in college and they had no other income, so they scrimped and borrowed from relatives to get by. After my mother was born, my grandmother looked for a new job because she had been [...]
Sexist Slurs Permissible?
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, tagged "Yale sluts", fraternity, Intimidation, Sexual Harassment on May 6, 2008, | 9 Comments »
AAUW is concerned about sexual harassment issues on campus, and in February we posted a blog entry about an incident at Yale University where pledge members of the Zeta Psi fraternity held a sign that said “We Love Yale Sluts” outside the university’s Women’s Center. This stunt was part of a scavenger hunt required to [...]
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