There have been numerous reports documenting the achievement gaps in education in America. Some focus on the racial gap, others on the gender gap, and AAUW’s own Where the Girls Are, released last year, focuses on gaps in educational achievement and attainment by gender as well as race and family income. McKinsey & Company recently [...]
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We’re Talking about Money
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged achievement gap, economy, Where the Girls Are on April 30, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW Report: Obama at 100 Days
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged 100 days, Lilly Ledbetter, Obama, Progress report, School Vouchers, Title IX, White House on April 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It seems like just yesterday that millions of people were braving a deep January freeze to witness President Obama’s inauguration. Hard to believe, but on this late April day, President Obama marks his 100th day in office. In keeping with the spirit of the day — the 100th day of a presidential administration has historically [...]
Equal Pay Day 2009 — A Roundup
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Diversity Inc, Equal Pay, equal pay day, Fox news, Joint Economic Committee, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Linda D. Hallman, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, shero, women leaders, women's enews on April 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This year, Equal Pay Day fell between two major national news stories — the swine flu outbreak and Obama’s 100th day in office. Fortunately, the issue of pay equity didn’t fall off the media’s radar screen, as economic issues remain a top concern among Americans. Here is a news roundup of Equal Pay Day through [...]
See Red, Be Red for Equal Pay Day
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged activism, astrology, direct action for change, economic justice, economic stimulus, Equal Pay, fair pay, feminism, gender equality, heartfeldt politics, pay equity legislation in Aries, tagged Paycheck Fairness Act, women, workforce on April 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This cross-posted blog is authored by Gloria Feldt and originally appeared on her blog, Speaking up. Red happens to be my favorite color. I’m an Aries after all. A classic one according to my sister (maybe that wasn’t meant as a compliment? Pioneering, passionate courageous, dynamic they say, but also selfish, impulsive, impatient, foolhardy.). Even [...]
Overeducated, Underpaid
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged Blog for Fair Pay, education, Equal Pay, Fair Pay Act, gender discrimination, Legal Advocacy Fund, Lilly Ledbetter, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act on April 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
For more than 100 years the AAUW has worked hard so that women would have the same educational opportunities to succeed in (what is still) a man’s world. They have been very successful: more women are matriculating and graduating universities than are men and women are making more and more inroads into professions that were [...]
Fighting for Equal Pay
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Blog for Fair Pay, Equal Pay Act, equal pay day, fairpay, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act on April 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
As we mark Equal Pay Day today, we’d like to think that women and men all across the country are joining in our fight for pay equity. And while we know that there are many activities taking place to highlight the fact that women continue to earn only 78 cent s on average for every [...]
Skating Toward Wage Disparity
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Emily Hughes, fair pay, harvard, Olympics, pay equity, princeton, Twitter, Twittercast on April 27, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
What do medicine, anthropology, engineering, and chemistry have in common? These are a few of the majors the women on Princeton University’s ice skating team represent. I was up there this weekend to watch their final event of the season, cheering loudly and watching in awe as Emily Hughes did a guest performance. I was [...]
The Peacemaker
Posted in NCCWSL, tagged Naomi Tutu, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Sister Sojourner on April 27, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Nontombi Naomi Tutu, one of the keynote speakers at this year’s NCCWSL, has dedicated her life to conflict resolution. I am eager to learn about her experiences with apartheid and reconciliation in South Africa. The years of the South African apartheid were one of the most violent times in human history. Growing up under apartheid, [...]
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