It would be nice to believe that Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 has served its purpose and there is no longer sex discrimination in schools. We at AAUW know, however, that this is not the case. Thirty-seven years after its passage, Title IX is as necessary as ever. All over the country, [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Title IX Compliance: Know the Score
Posted in Title IX, tagged Compliance, HIgh school sports, Know the Score, The Legal Aid Society, Title IX, Women's Sports Foundation on October 9, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Title IX: Two Lifetimes of Activism
Posted in Title IX, tagged Compliance, Elizabeth Kristen, HIgh school sports, Kathryn Braeman, Know the Score, The Legal Aid Society, Title IX, Women's Sports Foundation on October 9, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Editor’s note: This post was written by the AAUW members whose activism inspired AAUW’s new Program in a Box Title IX Compliance: Know the Score. Kathryn (Kathy) Braeman is a member of the AAUW Arlington (VA) Branch, and her daughter, Elizabeth Kristen, is an AAUW member-at-large. Kathy: Congress passed Title IX of the Educational Amendments [...]
Women, Ignorance, and Eleanor Roosevelt
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged 125th Birthday, Birthday, Elenor Roosevelt, Equal Pay Act, October 11, Paycheck Fairness Act, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything on October 9, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Searching the back corners of my mind, I vaguely remember a saying that the opposite of truth is not lies but ignorance. This came to mind recently while reading an earlier AAUW blog post, Time to Draw the Line on Tucker Max, a man who delights in bashing women and yet who has a large following, [...]
Meet Rachel Sternberg: Historian, Associate Professor, Author
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged American Fellowship, Classics, fellows, Fellowships and Awards, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, Greel, Pity and Power in Ancient Athens; Traegdy Offstage: Suffering and Symoathy in Ancient Athens, Rachel Stenberg on October 9, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Rachel Sternberg’s research about social attitudes and moral sensibilities related to misery in ancient Athens was in part inspired by the year she spent in Mexico before starting graduate school. She said that in the 1980s Mexico was filled with beggars and that compassion fatigue set in quickly in Mexico City. “You would set forth [...]
Real Men Wear Pink
Posted in Women's Health, tagged A crutial catch, American Cancer Society, breast cancer, Cancer Awareness Month, DeAngelo Williams, NFL, pink cleats on October 7, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
I turned on the television Sunday night and, since nothing on was exciting me, I flipped through the channels, stopping on a few football games to check out the scores. That’s when I noticed something I didn’t expect to see—the players were wearing pink shoes. Given the brutal nature of this testosterone-driven sport, I was [...]
A Crime by Any other Name Is Still a Crime
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged 13-year-old, Cokie Roberts, Letterman, rape, Roman Polanski, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, The View, Whoopi Goldberg on October 7, 2009, | 6 Comments »
Just as I was sitting down to write about Roman Polanski, I heard an update on the David Letterman issue: He apparently apologized yet again to his wife and asked reporters to stay away from his female staff … yeah right. I then ran across an interview with Cokie Roberts and agreed with her summation [...]
Lobby Corps—Guess Who We Met?
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Healthy Families Act, Joy Ward, lobby corps, Pat Robers, PECASE, University of Kansas on October 7, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
In October, while lobbying for the Healthy Families Act in the office of Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), we met a woman who said AAUW had made a difference in her career. Joy Ward, associate professor of plant ecology at the University of Kansas, spied our AAUW badges and thanked us for helping with her post-doc [...]
Meet Leslie Walker: Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Specialist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's Health, tagged Adolescent, Chop Shop, Following the Fellows, Seattle Children's Hospital, Selected Professions, Selected Professions Fellow, Woodson High School Clinic on October 2, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
A few nights ago I watched the film Chop Shop, about a homeless boy living in New York City and just trying to catch a break. The movie opens with the boy, Alejandro, waiting for a truck driven by men looking for migrant workers to do manual labor. After being passed over, the boy hops [...]
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