The folks over at mental_floss recently unveiled their “8 Memorable TV Uncles,” naming a hodgepodge of characters from the hunky Uncle Jesse on Full House to the eccentric Uncle Leo from Seinfeld. At the end of the post, they opened up the dialogue. Who was missing? And they didn’t just want to hear about uncles; [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Famous TV Aunt Fights Debilitating Disease
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Know My Bones, mental_floss, National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, osteoporosis, television, Women's Health on May 29, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Meet Gail Reimer: Founding Director of the Jewish Women’s Archive
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's History Month, tagged American Fellowship, blog, education, film, Following the Fellows, Jewesses with Attitude, jewish comedians, Jewish Women's Archive, women's history on May 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Growing up, Gail Reimer, a 1984–85 American Fellow, knew she was going to have to do something more than just live her life. With two parents who had survived the Holocaust, Gail had been brought up to “pay it forward.” The Jewish Women’s Archive, with Gail is its founding director, is one big way she [...]
Caring for the Earth
Posted in NCCWSL, Women and Work, tagged ecofeminism, environment, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL on May 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
There are more than 50 workshops at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL). A wide variety of topics — from body image to how to work in politics — are represented in the workshops. The one workshop that is the most interesting to me is Caring for Ourselves, Caring for the Earth: [...]
International Women’s Struggle to Break through Barriers
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged eating disorders, education, gender equity, self esteem, women's rights, workplace on May 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
On the same day that I read about four women winning seats to the Kuwaiti parliament, I also read a blog post on Muslimah Media Watch about a report that found levels of anorexia among teenage girls in the United Arab Emirates were nearly double those in the United Kingdom. The comments to the post [...]
Stay at Home Mom — Or Not?
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged career, Healthy Families Act, work, work/life balance, working moms on May 27, 2009, | 5 Comments »
Last week was Work at Home Moms Week, and I just found out about today. It appears most media missed it as well, since a quick scan through various web search engines found little to no coverage of this event. I remember watching sitcoms when the dad had to stay at home for one day, [...]
On President Obama’s Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Judicial Nominations, President Obama, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court on May 26, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW monitors the judicial nomination process because so many of our fundamental rights and liberties have been established and are protected by the federal courts. AAUW supports a fair and balanced judiciary. This is especially important when it comes to the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. Judge Sonia Sotomayor, if confirmed, would [...]
How My Major Picked Me
Posted in Equity in the News, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community on May 26, 2009, | 4 Comments »
My grandpa is fond of telling the story about how he ended up majoring in psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. As he tells it, he was one semester away from graduation but had yet to select a major. Upon meeting with his adviser to determine how he could possibly graduate without having declared a [...]
Memorial Day: More than Picnics and Parades
Posted in Women and Work, tagged African American Civil War, and Arlington National Cemetery, and Women in Vietnam Memorial, Day of Remembrance, Iwo Jima, Korean War Veterans, Last Monday in May, May 30, Memorial Day, military, Parades, United States Air Force Memorial, United States Navy Memorial, Vietnam Veterans memorials, World War II on May 22, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Memorial Day signals the arrival of summer. Swimming pools open, you can officially wear white (is my age showing?), gas prices rise, and the weekend barbeques begin. In school we learned that Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of remembrance for those who have died in service to our country. Memorial Day [...]
Meet Chris Simoniello: Education and Outreach Coordinator
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Career Development Grants, GCOOS, grants and awards, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System, NOAA, Ocean Observing System, SEACOOS on May 22, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Diving into ocean waters to install and retrieve instruments that provide information about water temperature, salinity, currents, and more is only one part of 1998–99 Career Development Grantee Chris Simoniello’s duties as the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) Education and Outreach Coordinator. The goal of the organization is to make science relevant [...]
Caught Having a Fling
Posted in Sexism, tagged Chocolate, ershey's, Fling, gender based marketing, mars, pepsi max, Snickers on May 21, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Ladies everywhere: Throw away your Hershey’s, Snickers, and whatever else you’re into these days, and make room for a Fling. I know this sounds preposterous and risqué, but that’s what the good people at Mars want you to do. The Fling is the first new candy bar from Mars in 20 years. And it only [...]
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