AAUW is about to go on a “blogcation” until the new year, but first, we’d like to celebrate some women who have broken through barriers in 2009. In no particular order, AAUW is noting Sonia Sotomayor As the third woman and first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sotomayor’s confirmation was a historic one that [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Community College
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged campus action project, higher education, STEM on December 28, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Many people underestimate the role that community colleges play in higher education. According to the American Association of Community Colleges, these institutions provide “access to education for many nontraditional students who are adults and working while enrolled” and welcome “more women students (first-generation women, women of color, older women)” than four-year institutions do. In On [...]
A Visit from … AAUW
Posted in The AAUW Community on December 23, 2009, | 4 Comments »
‘Twas the week of the holidays, when all through the land Everyone was shouting, pleading, and raising their hands. Pieces of legislation lined up in Congress with care, With hopes that the Senate would pass health care (reform that is). The advocates were aligned, all cheering for their cause, While worries of amendments were giving [...]
Celebrate Action Network Successes in 2009!
Posted in The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Action Network, Equal Pay Act, Hate Crimes, Healthy Families Act, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Paid Parental Leave Act, Paycheck Fairness Act, reproductive rights, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything on December 23, 2009, | 1 Comment »
The growing power and reach of AAUW’s Action Network can claim some impressive achievements. Just consider that over the past year, together, we have: Regained ground in the fight for pay equity by successfully advocating for the enactment of the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, signed into law by President Obama on January 29, 2009. [...]
Body Typed
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged beauty, beauty ideal, Body Typed, film, media, photo retouching, women filmmakers, women in media, women's representation on December 22, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Living in media-saturated cultures, we are surrounded by perfected images of “beauty.” The debate continues over whether or not advertisers should disclose the extent to which their images are digitally manipulated. Valérie Boyer, a member of the French parliament is proposing legislation in France that would require digitally altered photographs to be labeled. What would [...]
Meet Zelia Bora: Professor of Brazilian Literature
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Brazil, Brazilian culture, International Fellowship program, international fellowships, national identity, Zelia Bora on December 18, 2009, | 4 Comments »
“The history of national identity is also the history of myself.” Zelia Bora, a 2006–07 International Fellow from Brazil, sees herself as a transnational person: a citizen of the world. She finds value in preserving the beauty of each distinct culture. One way she is working to preserve Brazilian culture is by dedicating herself to [...]
AAUW Awards 12 New Campus Action Project Grants
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged campus action project, Campus Action Projects, engineering, grants, math, technology, women in science on December 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the generous support of the Mary Ann Ahrens–Iowa Giving Circle, AAUW is funding a record 12 Campus Action Project (CAP) teams in the 2009–10 academic year. CAP grants provide up to $5,000 in funding for each of the 12 teams CAP teams, which are made up of students and faculty at colleges and [...]
Gender Violence: A Look at Female Comic Book Characters
Posted in Sexism, tagged Batman, comic books, female superheroes, gender violence, graphic novels, rape, sexual assault, victim blaming, Watchmen, women in the media, women's representation on December 17, 2009, | 2 Comments »
The other morning I was chatting with my friend and colleague here at AAUW, Alli, about a recent posting she read on Feministing about female comic book and graphic novel characters. While some argue that strides are being made for better representation of women in this particular medium, many comics and graphic novels still lag [...]
Underwear and Wage Discrimination?!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Women and Work, tagged gender discrimination, pay equity, Sexism, wage discrimination on December 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Most women have faced discrimination in one form or another. I’m old enough to tell tales of blatant wage discrimination, simply because, as one boss told me, “You are a woman in a man’s field.” I literally laughed out loud at the time thinking he was joking, but his affront at my laughter made me [...]
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