“But grandma, I don’t get what the big deal is with you being Secretary of State — aren’t all women secretaries?” —Madeline Albright’s four-year-old granddaughter When I saw Madeleine Albright speak at the American Democracy Institute’s Pathways to Power Women’s Leadership Conference, she shared the above quote. It allowed me to reflect on our nation’s [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Procrastination Station — Women’s History Month
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged March, National Women's History Project, NOW, profrastination, Program ideas, RAINN, Women's History Month on December 14, 2009, | 1 Comment »
On campus, the hustle and bustle of the holiday season is a welcome distraction from last-minute paper writing and studying for finals. In preparation for time spent with family and friends, we begin to examine not only how important those people are in our lives but also where we are currently in accomplishing our dreams. [...]
Meet Chrystal Bell: Crime Scene Forensic Scientist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Career Development Grants, Following the Fellows, forensic science on December 11, 2009, | 2 Comments »
The episode starts with a man in a restaurant who inadvertently flashes the gun at his waist as he grabs his wallet. The camera zooms in for a close-up of an eye, which reflects that gun. The next shot shows the same man flashing a knowing smile, and in the next he is lying on [...]
On “Accidents”
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged 16 Days Campaign, assault, gender violence, violence against women on December 8, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Perhaps you have heard about Hiram Monserrate, the New York state senator recently convicted of brutally assaulting his live-in girlfriend? According to reports and video surveillance footage, he cut her face with broken glass then violently dragged her through their building while she called for help. The laceration near her eye required 40 stitches. For [...]
Underpaid and Ghettoized!
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged A Woman's Nation, american association of medical colleges, debt, economics, new breadwinners, pay gap, salary disparity, Sexism, women breadwinners, women in healthcare, women physicians on December 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Women physicians face barriers common to the “New Breadwinners” in A Woman’s Nation. Women are moving into the physician labor force in record numbers. More than half of the 2009 class entering medical school consisted of women. In 2008 nearly 30 percent of all practicing physicians in the United States were women, according to the [...]
December 7, 2009: Recognizing Women Veterans
Posted in Women and Work, tagged Army Nurses, Pearl Harbor, WAAC, WASP, woman's memorial, women veterans on December 7, 2009, | 4 Comments »
When I was a kid, stories of World War II came to me from my father, whose West Point class graduated early to join the fighting in 1944. His stories were few and far between; it was only reading studies of war veterans in my Psych 101 class in college that I learned that most [...]
Celebrating a Women’s Center
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Allies for a Women’s Center, cuniversity, UIUC, women's centers, women's resource centers on December 7, 2009, | 4 Comments »
As a graduate assistant with the Women’s Resources Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), I have seen firsthand the importance of having a space dedicated to women’s programming, events, discussions, and sisterhood. As both an undergraduate and graduate student at the same Big Ten university, I also had the opportunity to be part [...]
Meet Rieko Kishi
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged doula, Fellowships and Grants, international fellowships, midwifery on December 4, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Staff nurse midwife at Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital Rieko Kishi, 2007–08 International Fellow, is experienced in bridging gaps in many ways. About 10 years ago, Rieko was working as a nurse-midwife in a hospital in Japan, and she witnessed a gap between clients and professionals. “It is very important to understand my clients’ feelings [...]
A Good 24 Hours for Health Reform
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged #noban, #stopnelson, #stopstupak, domestic gag rule, reproductive rights, Stop Stupak Coalition, Stupak amendment, Stupak-Pitts Amendment, Women’s Health Amendment on December 4, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW staff and members were among the 1,200 people who descended on the corridors of Capitol Hill yesterday as part of the “Stop Stupak” coalition. Stupak, of course, refers to Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), the Michigan congressman who inserted an amendment into the House-passed version of health reform legislation that would jeopardize women’s access to [...]
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