The May issue of Redbook magazine has a great story entitled “Are Women Really Worth Less than Men? Our Government Says No, Our Paychecks Say Yes.” The article talks about the gender wage disparity that will cost women anywhere from $400,000 to $2 million over a lifetime in lost wages. It also features quotes from [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Get Ready for Equal Pay Day
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged equal pay day, gender pay gap, pay equity, wage gap on April 24, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Posted in Women and Work, tagged equal pay day, gender pay gap, pay equity, Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work, Take Your Child to Work Day, wage gap on April 24, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day takes place on the fourth Thursday in April. This year, I took my five-year-old niece Lucy to a nearby bakery to learn about what it takes to become a pastry chef. Specifically, we learned about making cupcakes. Lucy was impressed by the industrial-size refrigerators, ovens, and mixers. [...]
Comprehensive Sex Education
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged abstinence, abstinence-only education, feminism, Jessica Valenti, Lakita Garth, sex education, virginity on April 23, 2009, | 2 Comments »
This morning the Today Show ventured into rarely tread territory for morning shows with guests discussing virginity and comprehensive sex education. The verbal spar between Jessica Valenti and Lakita Garth was a quick and dirty primer on the issue of feminine sexuality and purity and how sex education influences both. Both women are recent authors: [...]
Members Go “Green” for Girls in STEM
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Earth Day, Florida, girls, green homes, membership, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, Regional Liaisons, STEM on April 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Last weekend at the AAUW of Florida state convention in Gainesville, more than 30 AAUW women built green homes with nontraditional materials. Graham crackers with frosting mortar formed the main structure, green sprinkles stood in for native plants on a green roof, and a stack of small marshmallows on a toothpick represented a cistern to [...]
Recession in Focus: Here Comes the Class of 2009
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged economic downturn, economy, education, graduation, job market, recent graduates, recession on April 21, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It’s early May, and the bands are playing while the senior classes at thousands of universities walk down stunning lawns, walkways, and stages decked with floral arrangements and lined with distinguished professors to begin their coveted graduation ceremonies. Some of them sit there, listening to the commencement speakers, thinking about how increased networking has landed [...]
Honoring AAUW Members
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, lobby corps, National Volunteer Week, NGCP on April 21, 2009, | 10 Comments »
As President Obama gets ready to sign the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act today, we thought to take a moment and honor National Volunteer Week (April 19–25, 2009), signed into existence in 1974 by President Richard Nixon and re-proclaimed by every president since then. A standing ovation goes to our very own AAUW members, [...]
Economic Downturn for ‘Real’ Families
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged economic downturn, economic recovery, economy, retirement on April 20, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
So last week the Washington Post published two articles focusing on the impact of the economic downturn on area families. The first family profiled, the Coughlins, are a dual earner home with two children, who recently found out that the husband received a 10% pay cut — but their overall income is still in the [...]
Project Profile: GEMS
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, project profiles, STEM, William Wirt Middle School on April 20, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
I hadn’t been in a school setting since saying goodbye to the American School of Campinas and my teaching career last June. That’s one reason I was so excited to visit William Wirt Middle School and the 2006–07 Community Action Grant program, Girls Excelling in Math and Science (GEMS). This STEM enrichment program focuses on [...]
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