The following is excerpted from a letter I sent to AAUW Action Network members. The complete letter including details about AAUW’s role in promoting another form of economic stimulus – pay equity – may be found on the AAUW website. Dear AAUW Friends: Today I was honored to attend the national ceremony celebrating President Abraham Lincoln’s [...]
Archive for February, 2009
On Lincoln, AAUW, and Economic Recovery
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged economic recovery, economic stimulus, economy, Keep the Change, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, tax credit on February 13, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
I’m Running for Secretary of Agriculture …
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged Campaign College, NCCWSL, student government, student leaders, women leaders on February 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday January 31 at Campaign College: Iowa State Women to Win, 21 students gained the skills to run for student office. Ranging in age from freshman to graduate student, the participants all came with few expectations, but left with a new recognition of how they could be true leaders on campus. Dianne Bystrom, director [...]
The Question For Today
Posted in Educational Programs, The AAUW Community, tagged business, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM on February 10, 2009, | 1 Comment »
What is the five syllable word for “w-o-r-k-i-n-g t-o-g-e-t-h-e-r?” Easy answer, you say? Of course. It’s collaboration. It’s something women — and women’s organizations — are known for. We are experts at it. AAUW’s most recent initiative in collaboration is the National Girls Collaborative Project. And collaboration works, right? Yes, it does. Every one of [...]
A Shove in the Right Direction
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, pay gap, Paycheck Fairness Act, Student Advisory Council, wage gap on February 10, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is the talk of the town. Only after becoming involved in women’s studies and subsequently becoming a member of AAUW’s Student Advisory Council did I become aware of the pay gap. When I first enrolled in college, I was coming from such a place of poverty [...]
A Powerful Noise
Posted in The AAUW Community on February 9, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Do you have your tickets for A Powerful Noise Live yet?Plan to join CARE and more than 120,000 people in 400 theaters across the United States to celebrate International Women’s Day 2009. On March 5, CARE is hosting an unprecedented one-night event featuring the theatrical premiere of A Powerful Noise, an acclaimed documentary that follows [...]
Meet Denise Decker: Senior Program Analyst for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged american, American Fellowship, Disability Rights, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, USAID, USDA on February 6, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I am always in awe of people who not only face adversity, but who, through their adversity, create something larger than themselves. This is the case of Denise Decker, a 1975-76 American Fellow, who has been blind since birth and who sees public service as a way to give back to the many family, friends, [...]
AAUW Dialog Turns One
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW Dialog, American Association of University Women, anniversary, blog, bloggig on February 6, 2009, | 4 Comments »
Happy blogiversary! I can’t believe it. We’ve been officially blogging for a year. When we first started planning for AAUW Dialog back at the end of 2007, we weren’t sure if we knew exactly what we were doing, what we were getting into, or what to expect. Would anyone other than our friends and loved [...]
Family and Medical Leave Act’s 16th Anniversary
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Family Medical Leave Act, Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act, FMLA, Healthy Families Act, maternity leave, paid family leave, paid sick leave on February 5, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Today marks the 16th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, a law that AAUW advocated for for more than a decade. FMLA provides employees of businesses with 50 or more workers with up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for a new child; to care for a sick child, spouse, or [...]
1,000 Wins
Posted in Title IX, tagged basketball, Fem 2.0, fem2, female coaches, sports, Title IX, women in sports on February 4, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! Did you know that when Congress enacted Title IX only one in 27 girls in high school participated in athletics and now it’s one in three? What a change! To celebrate, today girls all over the country will wear a t-shirt or jersey that promotes the sports [...]
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