It’s vampire romance time. Unlike the Harry Potter book and film series, which have audiences of all ages and genders, the Twilight books and movies have a much narrower target: teenage girls and women. On November 20, 2009, New Moon, the sequel to the first film, Twilight, was finally released. My 14-year-old cousin bought the [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Creating Their Own Vampire-Free Destiny
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged gender stereotyping, movies, New Moon, Student Advisory Council, Twilight on November 30, 2009, | 2 Comments »
AAUW Gives Thanks 2009
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Thanksgiving on November 25, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Last year we began a tradition by reflecting upon what we had to be grateful for in 2008. While we take a short break for the Thanksgiving holiday, we hope you enjoy this year’s edition. We’re thankful for all the individuals and organizations fighting — or even just raising awareness about — sexual and gender-based [...]
Learning to Sail My Ship
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Student Advisory Council on November 23, 2009, | 1 Comment »
In the United States, women have made great strides toward equality. Novelist and Little Women author, Louisa May Alcott, once said, “I am not afraid of the storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” Increasingly, women have weathered the storms and stood up for the issues that impact their lives and the lives [...]
Supporting Caregivers for National Family Caregivers Month
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Caregivers, caregiving, More Magazine, More.com, National Family Caregivers Month on November 20, 2009, | 2 Comments »
November is National Family Caregivers Month. In honor of these selfless individuals, I have written a blog for More.com, “Caregivers Deserve Year-Round Applause,” which focuses on the wide range of challenges facing the nation’s estimated 50 million caregivers. I share statistics, talk about AAUW’s policy recommendations, and close with a quote from Rosalyn Carter, who [...]
AAUW Alumnae Exchange: Connecting Alumnae One Click at a Time
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged alumnae exchange, Alumni, community, Fellowships and Grants, grants and awards, ning on November 20, 2009, | 6 Comments »
Since I started working with the AAUW alumnae initiative in 2008, I have had the pleasure of telling the stories of more than 50 fellowships and grants alumnae who have been doing amazing work since their fellowship year. The exciting part is that, because AAUW has funded more than 10,000 women since the first fellowship [...]
Highlights of AAUW’s First Annual College/University Luncheon!
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Carol Virostrk, College/University Partners, Fellowships and Grants, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Student Advisory Council on November 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
“I firmly believe that our partnerships with colleges and universities and our ties with their individual students are the key to the future of this organization and a powerful catalyst for helping female students and graduates become all that they can be.” –Carol Virostek, AAUW college /university relations committee chair Last week AAUW held the [...]
Women Deserve Better than the Status Quo
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged Health-care, healthcare, lobby corps, Michelle Obama, wage gap, White House on November 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Several AAUW Lobby Corps members in the Washington, D.C. area had the opportunity to attend a White House event on health care and older women last week, and I accompanied them to take photographs. It was my first visit to the White House, and I was really excited! We went through the security checkpoint, then [...]
She’s Geeky, and So Am I
Posted in S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged DC 2009, facebook, National Girls Collaborative Project, Open Source, Second Life, She's Geeky, STEM, Twitter, unConference on November 17, 2009, | 8 Comments »
Last Friday, several colleagues and I participated in the She’s Geeky D.C. “unConference.” What is an unConference, you ask? It allows the attendees to determine the agenda and the presenters during a conference. Organizers Kaliya Hamlin and Heidi Nobantu Saul kicked off the event by asking each of us to finish the sentence, “I am [...]
From the Real to the Ideal — Women Working in Health Care
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Health-care, shriver report, woman's nation, women breadwinners, women in the workforce, workforce on November 17, 2009, | 1 Comment »
In last week’s post I promised to take a focused look at women in the health care workforce. For both providers and patients, the gender gap has enormous consequences not only for how we understand American health care workers but also for how we take care of them. Society’s best interests require that both men [...]
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