During their college careers, 20 to 25 percent of women face sexual assault, and many campuses aren’t doing enough to keep students safe or offering them appropriate avenues for reporting the crime. This week the Center for Public Integrity released a report called “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice.” Staff at the [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Campus Sexual Assault: A New Report and Project
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, tagged center for public integrity, Community Action Grant, SAFER, sexual assault, sexual assault on campus on December 2, 2009, | 5 Comments »
World AIDS Day
Posted in Educational Programs, Women's Health, tagged (RED), AIDS, Career Development Grants, Comprehensive Sex education, Ester Casey, HIV, Prevention, product (RED), Thing with no name, World AIDS Day on December 1, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Today is World AIDS Day — a day dedicated to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS. This week is also the third anniversary of the death of my good friend David from the disease. David was my mentor at my first job out of college. He taught me creative problem solving and that nothing can [...]
Stop Stupak National Day of Action
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged capitol hill, Health-care, middle class abortion ban, reproductive rights, Stupak amendment on December 1, 2009, | 1 Comment »
FROM THE AAUW ACTION NETWORK: On Wednesday, December 2, AAUW and coalition partners will join forces for a National Day of Action to protest the Stupak amendment, anti-choice legislation that would jeopardize women’s access to complete and safe reproductive health care coverage. Join us in Washington, D.C. to lobby Congress and rally on Capitol Hill to [...]
Imagine! Ideas to Reach the Ideal
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Health-care, woman's nation, women in health care on December 1, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It takes a lot of chutzpah to offer up my concept of the model of perfection when it comes to women in the health care workplace. Why? Because not only is the ideal highly subjective, in many cases it is thought to exist only in the mind or to be imaginary. So what is my [...]
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