As many of you know, the 2009 AAUW National Convention have a unique twist: special events that focus on the great suffragists of St. Louis. St. Louis is chock full of rich history and steeped in suffrage lore. I have to say that, until recently, I was not too knowledgeable on the suffrage movement, and [...]
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An Eye on Suffragists in St. Louis
Posted in 2009 AAUW Convention, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged 2009 AAUW National Convention, League of Women Voters, Old Courthouse, St. Louis, Suffragist, Suffragist Salute!, Virginia Minor on May 21, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Filly Power!
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination on May 19, 2009, | 1 Comment »
There was a lot at stake at the Preakness Stakes this past weekend. The storied racetrack where the second leg of horseracing’s Triple Crown is held, Pimlico Downs, has hit some hard times — so hard that Maryland has OK’d slot machines in an effort to raise revenues. So hard that the race had two [...]
Court Rules the Pregnancy Discrimination Act is not Retroactive
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AT&T, Hulteen, Pregancy Discrimination, SCOTUS, Souter, Supreme Court on May 18, 2009, | 7 Comments »
Today the U.S. Supreme Court issued a disappointing ruling in the pregnancy discrimination case AT&T Corp v. Hulteen. AAUW officially supported the respondents in this case. As AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund Fellow Rebecca Herr explained in a December AAUW Dialog post, the Hulteen case involved a group of women who took pregnancy leave at AT&T [...]
Project Profile: Community, Empowerment, Leadership, and Self-Awareness (CELA)
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged CELA, Community Action Grants, Community Empowerment Leadership and Self Awareness, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, KIPP, project, project profiles on May 15, 2009, | 1 Comment »
KIPP is a San Francisco Bay area public middle school established in 2003 that boasts the highest performance rate of all middle schools in San Francisco. Programs like Community, Empowerment, Leadership, and Self-Awareness (CELA) have helped KIPP excel. The goal of CELA, a 2006–08 Community Action Grant project, was to give girls “the space to [...]
The Digital Ceiling
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged blogher, Digial Ceiling, Fem2.0, GEMS, glass ceiling, national girls, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, technonogy, TeleSummit, Women Who Tech on May 13, 2009, | 2 Comments »
When your computer breaks, they first thing you do is go call the tech guys, right? As one of the women in tech out there, I am getting tired of the sexist stereotypes about the gender of technology professionals. We are not all male! While there have been notable women in technology from the beginning, [...]
Women in Congress: Student Government as a Pathway to Power
Posted in NCCWSL, Students & Educational Issues, tagged American University, Campaign College, leadership, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Running Start, student government, student leaders, women in politics, women leaders on May 12, 2009, | 1 Comment »
American University’s Women & Politics Institute has gathered some interesting research on women in Congress and student governments. The institute asked women currently serving in Congress if they had previously served in student governments and found that 53.7 percent had been involved in high school or college or both. The study confirms that holding student [...]
In Good Health
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Margie Shapiro, Men's health, National Women's Health week, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, woman challenge on May 11, 2009, | 1 Comment »
May 10–16 is National Women’s Health Week, which means that now, today, is the perfect time for you to follow through on one or two of those healthy living resolutions you made back in January (and the January before that and the January before that). The beauty of health resolutions is that, when you’re first [...]
My Journey Toward “Keeping the Change”
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged I am the Face of Pay Equity, Keep the Change, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, SAC, Student Advisory Council on May 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
As a member of AAUW’s National Student Advisory Council, I am responsible for helping with a campus program focused on women’s equity, so I decided to help with the national Equal Pay Day event on my campus in Hawaii. The Women’s Center had hosted the event in previous years, but when I met with the [...]
Meet Robin Blaetz: Women’s Avant-Garde Cinema Researcher
Posted in Women and Work, tagged American Fellowship, Avant Garde, Cinema, Fellowships and Grants, film, Following the Fellows, Francophile, French, Grants & Awards, grants and awards, Sexism on May 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
After graduating with a bachelor of arts in English and French, 2004–05 American Fellow Robin Blaetz traveled to Paris to reflect on her future. Within a month of arriving, Robin identified her new passion: avant garde film. She returned from Paris and applied to New York University’s cinema studies program, which claims to be the [...]
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