When I first started teaching, bullying was evident everywhere I turned. In the Bronx one of our students stopped coming to school because a threat made by a classmate left her afraid to walk to school alone. Later on, while teaching in Brazil, I saw another form of aggression. The 7th grade students were using [...]
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Harriet Tubman, Spy
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Civil Rights, tagged African American, Black History Month, women's history on February 23, 2009, | 3 Comments »
By sheer happenstance I caught the tail end of the review of a new book, Black Dispatches, by Ken Dagler, which tells stories of African American slaves who actually served as spies. As someone who had decided to be a spy at the age of five (albeit later denied for being “too short”), I found [...]
Meet Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz: Professor, Researcher, and Mentor
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged american fellowships, educational achievement gap, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, improving education, teach for america, teaching on February 20, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I first entered the teaching profession through Teach for America in 2001. During my preliminary training and teaching of fifth grade summer school in the Bronx, I witnessed firsthand the educational achievement gap — cockroach-infested drinking fountains, fifth graders reading at a first grade level —and came to more fully understand the role I could [...]
I Didn’t Sign Up for This
Posted in Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Drawing the Line, men, Sexual Harassment, women, workplace harassment on February 20, 2009, | 1 Comment »
PBS is airing a special investigative show tonight, Friday, February 20, about teenagers and sexual harassment at work. At AAUW, we already know from our research report Drawing the Line that teenagers in college are vulnerable to sexual harassment. The overview of the PBS special indicates that teens also are vulnerable to harassment at work [...]
Where Are All the Women?
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, Where the Girls Are on February 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I used to be an engineer. For eight years, I designed satellites. The work was engrossing at times, and I loved designing with CAD (Computer Aided Design). It was like getting paid to play a video game. But the more time I spent working as an engineer, the more interested I became in a problem [...]
Celebrating Femininity
Posted in Educational Programs, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Eve Ensler, Femininity, Feminis, feminism, SAC, Student Advisory Council, V-day, Vagina Monologues on February 17, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is one of my favorite stage productions. Last Thursday, with a few girlfriends and colleagues, I attended my university’s production sponsored by our V-Day group and Gender and Women’s Studies program. We warned the most conservative young woman in our group that the language might be a little cutting-edge for [...]
Ida B. Wells: Nothing Stopped Her from Exposing the Truth
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Black History Month, civil rights, women's rights, women's suffrage on February 13, 2009, | 6 Comments »
In recognition of Black History Month, AAUW is profiling women we should never forget who fought to break through barriers. This week we feature Ida Bell Wells (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931), who was an African American teacher, journalist, anti-lynching crusader, civil rights leader, and a women’s rights leader active in the Women’s [...]
Meet Allison Rautman: Archeologist and Professor
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged anthropology, Archeologist, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Girl Scouts, Grants & Awards, grants and awards on February 13, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The site was catastrophically abandoned; people left their food and tools and apparently fled with little warning. Every place we tested was completely burned. There were piles of burned corn in food storage rooms, burned baskets filled with seeds, and clay pots and tools on the room floors where they had been smashed when the [...]
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Falling into Stereotypes
Posted in Educational Programs, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, tagged basketball, NBA, SAC, sports commentators, stereotypes, Student Advisory Council on February 24, 2009, | 3 Comments »
The other day I was watching the NBA games on TV with my kids and boyfriend. We are big basketball fans and enjoy watching all the games and teams. During one of the games, the main sports commentator was a woman. I found myself annoyed with her comments and started critiquing her for them. My boyfriend [...]
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