A new report was published by the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University of Albany entitled Glass Ceiling in Gubernatorial Appointments 1997-2007: Appointed Policy Makers in State Government. The center conducted a study that analyzed female policy leaders who were appointed by current state governors. These appointees included department heads [...]
Archive for August, 2008
A Glass Ceiling in the Governor’s Office
Posted in Sexism, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged executive branch, glass ceiling, gubernatorial appointments, leadership, policy leaders, Public Policy, state government, women leaders on August 25, 2008, | 3 Comments »
Meet Catherine Cole
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Catherine Cole, fellow, Fellowships, Following the Fellows, Ghana, Grants & Awards on August 22, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Catherine Cole: Professor, Performer, Survivor Most universities have a wide range of professors — from the snore-invoking ones who can’t draw students away from their newspapers to the engaging teachers whose students get out of bed early to grab the front-row seats in class. Next week I begin master’s classes at American University. I have [...]
Independent Convention
Posted in Voter Education, tagged 2009 AAUW National Convention, democrat, Democratic, DNCC, GOP, Independents, republican, RNCC, vote on August 19, 2008, | 7 Comments »
As we watch with bated breath (or not), the proceedings leading to the Republican or Democratic Conventions, I paused to give thought to those Independents among us. Long perceived as a minority group with possible make-or-break power in any given presidential election, according to http://www.independentvoting.org/, Independents actually make up 40 percent of the electorate. Many [...]
The Queen of Multitasking Is Taking a Break
Posted in Women & Economic Security, tagged career, multitasking, renewment on August 18, 2008, | 1 Comment »
By Anna M. Rappaport, FSA, MAAA I want to share with you my interest in a new book, Project Renewment. I am a woman who has had a busy career since my early 20s; I am now in my late 60s. I am working to stay active, to re-invent myself, and to try to do [...]
Meet Jessica Braun
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Fellowships, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, Mongolia, Peace Corps on August 15, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Jessica Braun: Sustainable Architecture MA and Mongolian Care Center Designer While reading through the 2007-2008 Selected Profession Fellows final reports, my eyes were drawn to Jessica Braun’s report, in which she proposed a care center to serve disabled children and their families in southwestern Mongolia. This story interested me because, while in Brazil, in addition [...]
Locks of Love
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged breast cancer, cancer, Carolyn Cares, give-a-grad-a-gift, Locks of Love on August 11, 2008, | 9 Comments »
My sister Carolyn (aka “Sherry”), niece Becca, and I once found ourselves in a hospital’s “wig room”, as we called it, trying to find a decent wig for Sherry who had lost all of her hair after a recent bout of chemotherapy. What was a tough situation for all of us became a very funny [...]
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