My sleep is not as sound as it used to be. I wake up worrying about financial issues. All my life I’ve been told to buy a house, put as much as possible toward retirement, and use advice about stock market issues. What’s that old adage of “don’t buy high and sell low?” Well, through [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Stressed Out Women
Posted in Equity in the News, Women & Economic Security, tagged economic security, economics, economy, financial crisis, health, stress, women, women's healthcare on October 21, 2008, | 5 Comments »
Now Announcing…
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Campus Action Projects, CAP, SAC, Student Advisory Council, students, women leaders on October 20, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW has selected the new Student Advisory Council (SAC) for the 2008–09 year! We received a large number of applications this year, and we are heartened by how many wonderful women leaders there are across the country. The 10 women selected for this year’s council come from a variety of backgrounds and have held a [...]
Meet Elaine Hale: Chemical Engineer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, green building, National Science Foundation, science, Selected Professions Fellow, STEM on October 17, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Elaine Hale, a 2003–04 Selected Professions Fellow, considers herself a jack-of-all-trades, a character trait that works in her favor in her new position at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. As a member of the Commercial Building Research Team, Elaine examines the integration of various technologies. “It is important to look at a building as a [...]
Powerhouse Women
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged Africa, Campaign College, Forbes Most Powerful, government, policy leaders, political system, politics, Voter Education, women in politics, women leaders on October 16, 2008, | 2 Comments »
What do Angela Merkel, Condoleezza Rice, Cristina Fernandez, Yulia Tymoshenko, Sonia Gandhi, Michelle Bachelet, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton have in common? Forbes just named them some of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women, and they all hold a powerful political office. When I read articles like this, I become my five-year-old self, giddy with [...]
Blog Action Day: Pay Equity to Help End Poverty
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Blog Action Day, blogging, economic security, pay equity, pay gap, poverty, retirement security, wage gap, Women & Economic Security on October 15, 2008, | 1 Comment »
Conversations about poverty often revolve around comparing and contrasting people on either side of a government-established income level, trying to process exactly what causes poverty and how to improve the outcomes for those who are struggling. What assistance is most effective and how do we truly improve the lives of so many? I can’t help [...]
Blog Action Day: Women and Poverty
Posted in Equity in the News, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Blog Action Day, blogging, retirement security, women's issues, World Poverty Day on October 15, 2008, | 2 Comments »
Back in the day on “girls’ night out,” I would sit around, wine in hand, with friends as we plotted our retirement. All of us worked for nonprofits that had little or no retirement plans, so we decided that our best bet would be to commit a crime and have the government take care of [...]
Ice Breaker or Noise Maker?
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged blogher, BlogherDC, ice breaker, seo, speed dating, Twitter, women bloggers on October 13, 2008, | 2 Comments »
How very exciting to be attending the BlogHerDC conference and blogging while the noise of the conference surrounds me. Our first action — Who knew we’d be standing in two lines, facing each other, in a hotel meeting room when attending a conference on blogging? Our computers were left on tables and our assignment, a [...]
Meet Rashi Bahri: Talk Show Host, Screenplay Writer, Producer, Director
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Fellowships, film, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, international fellowships, movies on October 10, 2008, | 6 Comments »
I remember once, after a knock-down, drag-out battle about whether or not I should take a year off of college to travel the west coast — my corner said yes and my parents’ corner said no way — my dad stayed up all night and wrote a small-novel length e-mail explaining his position and concluding [...]
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