Halloween has changed since I was a kid. It was the one night of the year that my parents allowed my sisters and me to stay out after dark, and we freely roamed for hours on end. Today, more parents take their kids trick-or-treating at shopping malls than in their own neighborhoods. My biggest worry [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Tricks and Treats: The Sexualization of Halloween
Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged halloween on October 30, 2009, | 4 Comments »
Meet Margaret Jackson: Opera Singer and Ethnomusicologist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged American Fellows, Awards, Ethnomusicology, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Margaret Jackson on October 30, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Margaret Jackson, a 2006–07 American Fellow, joined AAUW in March 2008. “I wanted very much to support the organization that has been a strong support to me.” The AAUW fellowship helped Margaret complete her dissertation, which she jokingly notes she might still be writing, had it not been for the chance to dissertate without being [...]
Women in Prison: What Rights?
Posted in Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Clearinghouse for Women's Issues, Deborah Golden, Fran Buntman, Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute, Nancy G. La Vigne, Prision Litigation Reform Act, Prisioner Re-entry, women in prision on October 30, 2009, | 2 Comments »
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Clearinghouse for Women’s Issues held a program on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., highlighting inequities and injustices that affect women throughout the criminal justice system. The panelists touched on a variety of current issues, including inequitable treatment of [...]
Are we preaching to the choir?
Posted in Women and Work, tagged Equal Pay, Glass Celings, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Moms to Work, momstowork.com, Paycheck Fairness Act, Preading to the Choir on October 27, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Every time we talk about working through the system to get equal pay for women, you have to wonder if we are preaching to the choir. You would figure women should know already know about the inequity they experience—in pay, in job promotions, in caring for family members. Shouldn’t we focus our attention on getting [...]
Meet AAUW’s New Student Leaders
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged NCCWSL, SAC, Student Advisory Council, student leaders on October 26, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Overseeing AAUW’s Student Advisory Council and working with amazing women from across the nation last year was a rewarding experience. The women of SAC provided valuable input on how AAUW can better serve the needs of students, and I had the opportunity to watch them shine during the 2009 National Conference for College Women Student [...]
Project Profile: Arhythmetic Jukebox
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Community Action Grant, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, mathematics on October 23, 2009, | 6 Comments »
Cynthia White, a 2007–08 Community Action Grant recipient, has big ideas about math. She wants to change students’ realities about their inability to do math. “I don’t want it to be okay to say, ‘I can’t do math.’” As a math educator, Cynthia applied for an AAUW Community Action Grant and an AAUW Selected Professions [...]
Have You Read It Yet?
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, tagged awn, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, womansnation, women in the workplace on October 21, 2009, | 3 Comments »
What a wonderfully ambiguous question. Have I read what yet? The latest best-selling novel? Walter Cronkite’s autobiography? That romance novel stashed under the nonfiction pile next to my bed? Your favorite blog of the day? How about the 450-page Shriver Report? There’s a great reason for each and every one of us to read The [...]
Shifting Gender Roles: Men Join Women with Open Minds and Hearts
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, tagged A Woman's Nation, awn, fair pay, Jamal Simmons, pay equity, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, Work-Life Balence on October 21, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Commentary on Jamal Simmons’ “Genders Full of Question Marks” in The Shriver Report — A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything Jamal Simmons presents a male perspective in The Shriver Report — A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything and discusses the difficult decisions women face when trying to balance their professional careers and home life. In our current [...]
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