February 17–26 Support AAUW by Purchasing Powerful, New Book: Secrets of Powerful Women Vivid Living blog (Wednesday, Feb. 17) Bloggers are praising Secrets of Powerful Women, which features a chapter written by AAUW Public Policy Director Lisa Maatz. Freelancer Nancy Sharp called it “a jewel of a book that I want to recommend to women [...]
Archive for February, 2010
Work-Life Balance in a Blizzard
Posted in Women and Work, tagged AAUW, blizzard, caregiving, fem2, Fem2.0, Washington D.C., Women and Work, work-life, Work-Life Balance, work/life, work/life balance on February 25, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
As Washington, D.C., recovers from the worst snowstorm in recorded history — and while my car remains buried in snow — commutes are beginning to return to normal. Most schools were off the entire week of the blizzard, which meant that parents had to either stay home with their kids or find last-minute child-care options. [...]
CineSalon
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW New York City Branch, Career Development Grants, CineSalon, City University of New York, CUNY, Ester Casey, facebook, Jill Orschel, Melissa Hacker, Sarah Cortese, Sister Wife, The Chambered Nautilus, Unravelling, Vanessa Woods, women filmmakers, women in film on February 24, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Something very exciting is happening in New York City. It started this fall when Ester Casey and Melissa Hacker, who both attend the City University of New York, Hunter College, and are current AAUW Career Development Grant recipients, met at an AAUW New York City Branch gathering. While chatting over tea and cookies they found [...]
Underneath Work-Life Balance
Posted in Women and Work, tagged fem2, Fem2.0, Mary Gayle Griffin, Neal Chalofsky, Paul Weddle, Paula Caligiuri, Steven Poelmans, The Huffington Post, Women and Work, work-life, work/life, work/life balance on February 23, 2010, | 2 Comments »
I was reading a column recently by human resources consultant and author, Peter Weddle that struck a chord. In “Rethinking Work-Life Balance” on the ISTE website, Weddle suggests that the term “work-life balance” implies that work is a negative activity that has no personal value other than a paycheck that is almost always less than [...]
Project Profile: Oasis for Girls
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW grant, Community Action Projects, Following the Fellows, Jill Pfeiffer, Ly Nguyen, Oasis for Girls, RISE Life Skills Education Program on February 22, 2010, | 3 Comments »
As a young Indian immigrant, Sadaf was part of the first Oasis girls’ group held at Columbia Park housing in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood. She offered to teach Indian dance to the other girls; in middle school she became a banker at the Youth Credit Union, encouraging her peers to begin thinking about [...]
New Research Shows Long-Term Benefits of Sports for Girls
Posted in Title IX, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged 2010 Winter Olympics, AAUW, girls and self esteem, girls in sports, Know the Score, Let's Move program, Michelle Obama, Olympics, Title IX, women and education, women's employment on February 19, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Many studies suggest that participating in physical activity, particularly sports, has numerous benefits for girls, including a reduced risk of developing cancer, better grades, and high self-esteem. Some people wonder, however, if girls who already have these attributes are drawn to play sports instead of sports participation itself leading to these benefits. Two recent studies [...]
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