Did you know that 80 percent or more of newspaper op-eds are written by men? It’s just one area in the media in which women are underrepresented. But unlike being a Hollywood producer (85 percent are men) or a New York Times best-selling nonfiction book author (85 percent are by men), anyone can be an [...]
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Add Your Voice to the Op-Ed Pages
Posted in Sexism, Sexual Harassment, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Huffington Post, mentor editor, mentoring, Op-Ed, Op-Ed Project, Sexual Harassment, women in media, women in the media, Zeba Kahn on March 19, 2010, | 3 Comments »
Writing Deaf Women Back into History
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged deaf women, female pilot, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Standard, hearing impairment, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Laura Redden Searing, National Women's History Month, Nellie Zabel Willhite, NWHM, shero, Women's History Month on March 18, 2010, | 5 Comments »
I was driven and ambitious as a young girl. I had big dreams; I wanted to be a journalist or an attorney. Clair Huxtable, Geraldine Ferraro, “Career Barbie,” and even Madonna had promised me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up. However, I was born with a hearing impairment. I [...]
Work-Life Balance: More Than a Philosophy
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, blog carnival, Equal Pay, fem2, Fem2.0, Huffington Post, Lilly Ledbetter, More Magazine, More.com, paid sick leave, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, work-life, work/life, work/life balance on March 18, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Women now make up half of the U.S. workforce, yet policies such as flexible scheduling that help women juggle work-life responsibilities are not prioritized by our lawmakers. This is a problem when more and more women not only have caregiving responsibilities but also serve as primary breadwinners. As part of the Fem2.0 work-life blog carnival, [...]
Meet Graciela Tiscareño-Sato: Entrepreneur, Advocate, Aviator
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged AAUW, AAUW Career Development Grant, Air Force, children with disabilities, communications, disability advocates, empowerment, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, global communications, Gracefully Global, Graciela Tiscareño-Sato, Hispanic entrepreneurs, parents' advocacy on March 17, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Graciela’s 2010 Goals Publish first bilingual children’s book about mothers in the military Publish first business book featuring innovative Latinos in the American “green” economy Visit three graduate business schools with the intent of someday achieving a doctoral degree Present one special education parent empowerment seminar per month As a graduate student and active duty [...]
NGO Global Women’s Forum Beijing +15, CSW 54, and Parallel Events
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, African Union, Beijing + 15, CEDAW, Commission on the Status of Women, CWS, global women's empowerment, Human Rights, Millennium Development Goals, NGO Global Women's Forum, Pan-Africa Parliament, Sisterhood Global Institute in Jordan, UN, UN Department of Public Information, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 54, women and education, women's empowerment, women's rights on March 16, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
From February 27 through March 12, I attended the NGO Global Women’s Forum, Beijing + 15; the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 54; and parallel events associated with the conference. The mission of the conference was to review implementation of the 1995 Beijing platform on women and girls. More than a dozen [...]
Student Loan Crisis: An American Reality
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged higher education, Pell grants, SAFRA, Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, student loan crisis, Student Loans on March 12, 2010, | 9 Comments »
The desire for a college education has become a dream rather than a realistic goal for many American students. As parents and students realize that an affordable college education may be out of their personal reach, many look to loans as a possible alternative. Unfortunately, as families are learning, the disheartening reality is that loans [...]
Paycheck Fairness Act Senate Hearing
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged #PFA, gender-based wage discrimination, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, Paycheck Fairness Act Senate Hearing, wage discrimination on March 12, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Missed yesterday’s live blog of the Paycheck Fairness Act hearing? Read the complete transcript below: 9:04 Good morning one and all! 9:05 and welcome to AAUW’s live-blogging of the Paycheck Fairness Act hearing 9:05 my name is Adam Zimmerman, and I am AAUW’s Regulatory Affairs Manager 9:06 it’ll be my pleasure to bring you through [...]
International Women’s Day Celebrated with Half the Sky Live!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Angelique Kidjo, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, Helene Gayle, India.Arie, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, maternal mortality, Michael Franti, Nicholas Kristof, Rachel Mayanja, Sex Discrimination, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet on March 11, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
This past Thursday, I was given the opportunity to represent AAUW and celebrate International Women’s Day with my peers in a packed theater for a showing of CARE’s Half the Sky Live. While the rest of the building was filled with posters for Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy and Tim Burton’s recent take on yet [...]
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