For the past several weeks we have shared stories of women who have and are still breaking through barriers in their chosen professions. As Women’s History Month comes to a close, it occurs to me that, although we have featured women we admire and recognize from engineers, to educators, to scientists, there are still thousands, [...]
Archive for March, 2009
The Sweet Success of Ann Fudge
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged Ann Fudge, Cracking Corporate Code, D.C., Mad Men, marketing, media, Oprah's Bookshelf, True North, Washington, Young & Rubicam Brands on March 31, 2009, | 2 Comments »
As I began my career in national advertising management for several of the major brands of corporate America, one woman stood out as a brand giant herself within that world — the barrier-breaking Ann Fudge. I had few, if any, true mentors or role models in the business, and oh, did I need one! Fresh [...]
Go Grrrl! Go, Run, LEAD!
Posted in NCCWSL, Students & Educational Issues, tagged feminist, Feminist Majority, women leaders, Young Women's Leadership Conference on March 31, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C., with five other young women from South Dakota State University’s Campus Women’s Coalition. We attended the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Women’s Leadership Conference and participated in their Day on Hill, which gave us the opportunity to meet with one of our senators, Tim [...]
Carol S. Clark: Music Educator
Posted in Educational Programs, Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged music on March 30, 2009, | 1 Comment »
At the end of fourth grade, each student in my elementary school had to choose whether to join the middle school chorus, band, or orchestra. While orchestra seemed like it might be fun to try, after a nasty run-in with a recorder earlier that year I had decided that instruments weren’t for me, resigning myself [...]
Jane Goodall’s Mom Went to the Jungle, Too
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged environment, environmental science, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, Wangari Maathai on March 27, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Prior to my position working with the National Girls Collaborative Project here at AAUW, I spent many years in the world of environmental science education, and I still spend much of my time after work volunteering for local environmental pursuits. Inspirational women abound in the environmental sciences. As a child, I was captivated by the [...]
The Shoulders of Giants
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African Ameriican, Alice Phinney, engineering, mentor, minority engineers, Peggy Olorunsola, Women and Work on March 27, 2009, | 2 Comments »
They say that behind every successful man is a woman. I think it’s also fair to say that behind every successful woman is a woman — or, more likely, many women. Women’s History Month is a good time to think about the women who have helped us get where we are today — our mothers, [...]
Project Profile: Eureka
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged Community Action Grant, mentor, science, STEM on March 27, 2009, | 1 Comment »
“Leading and encouraging a small group of female students in STEM activities has been a dream of mine for a long time,” said Gudrun Hutchins, a 2004–06 Community Action Grant recipient. Gudrun worked for many years as an experimental laboratory physicist mentoring young women at work and occasionally giving presentations about women in math and [...]
Patsy Mink: A Woman Who Fought For Our Rights
Posted in 2009 AAUW Convention, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged Hawaii, Kimberlee Bassford, Patsy Mink, Title IX on March 26, 2009, | 1 Comment »
The other night, I had the unique pleasure of viewing the D.C. premiere of Patsy Mink: Ahead of the Majority at the Capitol Visitor Center. I had the privilege of enjoying this film in a group that included AAUW members, some of Patsy Mink’s former staff members, and Representative Lynn Woolsey (D – CA). This [...]
Back up your Birth Control
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Back up your Borth Control, birth control, EC, Emergency Contraception, FDA, Plan B, Prevention First Act, reproductive health, reproductive rights on March 25, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
March 25 is the eighth anniversary of the Back Up Your Birth Control Day of Action. This day for increasing awareness of and access to emergency contraception comes just days after a federal judge ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reconsider its 2006 age restrictions on the “morning-after pill,” or Plan B emergency [...]
Madam Speaker of the House
Posted in Voter Education, Women's History Month, tagged education, enviroment, healthcare, Madam Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Trinity College, women's history on March 25, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is a woman who has broken through a political barrier by serving as the first female speaker of the House of Representatives. She attended an all-women’s college, Trinity College (renamed Trinity Washington University), in Washington, D.C. In the early 60s she married Paul Pelosi and later moved to California. The Pelosis moved [...]
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