AAUW’s research reports Drawing the Line and Hostile Hallways show that girls and boys are subject to sexual harassment at school. Research I’ve conducted on gender-based street harassment of girls and women outside of my work at AAUW shows that girls are vulnerable to harassment on their way to and from school as well. As [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Harassed on the Way to School
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Drawing the Line, education, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, street harassment, student safety on September 16, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Meet Marie Elena Reyes: Founder of the Frida Kahlo Institute
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Community Action Grant, engineering, Following the Fellows, Frida Kahlo Institute, Frontera Grrls, Latina, leadership development, mathematics, science, self esteem, STEM, technology on September 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Marie Elena Reyes, 2001–02 Community Action Grant recipient, excelled in math throughout her early academic career but received little instruction or encouragement about science. Marie Elena was married with two children when she took her first biology class. “I was shocked by how exciting it was,” she said of the class. It was then that [...]
AAUW Remembers
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged 9/11, terrorist attacks on September 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Sept. 11: National Day of Service and Remembrance 9-11
Books, Grandparents, and Memories
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged books, family, grandchildren, Grandparents Day, reading on September 10, 2009, | 5 Comments »
To this day, I pick up certain books and find myself immediately transported back to the time I first opened the cover. Some are special favorites from when my daughter was a little girl (I Love You This Much leaps to mind), and others take me even further back to when I was a child. [...]
Help SAFER Make College Campuses Safer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sexual Harassment, tagged Community Action Grants, contest, SAFER, sexual assault on September 4, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Last year AAUW supported the amazing organization Students Active for Ending Rape (SAFER) through our Community Action Grants program. The grant helped SAFER develop the online College Sexual Assault Policies Database, which provides information about schools and their sexual assault policies and programs. The database gives students a chance to see examples of sexual assault [...]
Working Women and those Three Little Words: Work-Life Balance
Posted in Women and Work, tagged Michelle Obama, productivity, stress, Work-Life Balence on September 4, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own “to do” list. —Michelle Obama [...]
What Is It about Women in the Media?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged gender discrimination, Katic Couric, media ownership, NOW, WMC, women in media on September 3, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Gender discrimination in the media can generally be broken down into how women are portrayed in the media (both popular forms of media and news media), as well as women’s participation in, and ownership of, media. Much has been written about women’s representation and the effects of media portrayals on certain groups and our society, [...]
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