Common among the former fellows I’ve interviewed is that having a mentor and being a mentor play important roles in these women’s lives. This message was reiterated in the speech given by Anucha Browne Sanders during the AAUW Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony at the recent National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Sanders said, [...]
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The Importance of Female Mentors
Posted in Equity in the News, NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged career, Fellowships and Grants, math, mentor, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, role models, science, STEM, Women and Work, Women of Distinction on June 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The Uprising in Iran
Posted in Women and Civil Rights, tagged elections, Iran, news, women's rights on June 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
If you’ve been following the news about what’s been happening in Iran since last Friday’s presidential election, then you know that it’s a tense and increasingly violent situation. Is this the beginning of a revolution? It’s hard to say right now, but what is clear is that thousands of Iranians feel that the election has [...]
AAUW Invites You to Ask Judge Sotomayor
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged confirmation hearings, federal judicial nominations, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court on June 16, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced that Judge Sonia Sototmayor’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings will begin on July 13. AAUW will be submitting questions we’d like the senators to ask Judge Sotomayor during these hearings, and we want you to be a part of that process. What [...]
Meet Lorraine Anderson
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Following the Fellows, Human Rights, international fellowships, sexual assault, United Nations, violence against women, women's rights on June 12, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Since February, when I turn on the radio in the morning I’m inundated with dismal news about the current state of the economy. Would you like some foreclosures with your corn flakes? As everyone is thinking about the economy, Lorraine Anderson, a 1999–00 International Fellow from Canada, adds a new depth to the role economics [...]
Effects of Pornography on Perceptions of Women and Sexual Violence
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged GLBT, media, pornography, research, sexual violence, violence against women on June 12, 2009, | 2 Comments »
AAUW Communications fellow Katherine Broendel guest blogs this month at Framing Science about sexual violence as a social problem. The following entry originally appeared on Framing Science and is cross-posted here. Before I begin writing about what my research has found regarding the framing of sexual violence in the media, I’d like to take [...]
It’s Hard to Go Wrong when Following Your Passion
Posted in NCCWSL, tagged Iraqi resettlement, Kirk Johnson, leadership, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, women leaders on June 12, 2009, | 2 Comments »
The National Conference for College Women Student Leaders leaves everyone involved — not just participants — with inspiration and motivation to accomplish anything we are passionate about. One of the most uplifting parts of the conference for me was being able to listen to the experiences of the life-changing keynote speakers. Traditionally, the conference speakers [...]
Another Equal Pay Anniversary This Week
Posted in Women and Work, tagged gender discrimination, pay equity, women's history on June 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
While looking for information on floor proceedings on the Clerk of the House website (we were following the House debate over the Office for Global Women’s Issues that is included in the State Department reauthorization bill), I came across this story. (My favorite line is in bold.) During this week of pay equity anniversaries, it’s another [...]
Rape Isn’t a Game
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged diversity, RAINN, rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, video games on June 10, 2009, | 14 Comments »
When I was teaching high school in California five years ago, we took about 90 students on a weekend retreat to address issues of diversity. One night the boys and girls were taken into two separate rooms and asked to list all the negative messages they had ever heard about the opposite sex. After a [...]
It’s the Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, but I’m Not Quite Ready to Celebrate
Posted in Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, college grads, Equal Pay Act, Paycheck Fairness Act, wage gap, Women and Work on June 9, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
On June 10, 1963, President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law. Forty-six years later, as I prepare to graduate from college and enter the workforce, there are so many career options and opportunities at my fingertips that a woman in 1963 would not have had access to. I take the wide breadth of [...]
Everyone Can Make a Difference
Posted in NCCWSL, tagged Anucha Browne Sanders, Diane Rehm, Martine Rothblatt, Melissa Poe Hood, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Tammy Duckworth, Women of Distinction on June 8, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Each year, during the Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, five outstanding women leaders and trailblazers are honored for their accomplishments and given an opportunity to speak, and they inevitably inspire everyone in the audience. This year was no different. National Public Radio host Diane Rehm told [...]
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