February 27– March 10 AAUW Recognized by Bestselling Author at National Movie Event Sponsored by CARE AAUW branches across the United States participated in Half the Sky LIVE, a one-night only movie event presented by CARE on March 4. Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – the [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Rock the Red Pump for HIV/AIDS Awareness
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #redpump, AAUW, AAUW Dialog, Act Against Aids, blog, blogging, Comprehensive Sex education, fem2, HIV/AIDS, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Red Pump Project, red pumps, Rock the Red Pump, sex education, Twitter, women of color on March 10, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 10, marks the fourth annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The day calls for people to get informed, get tested, and take action. One idea for getting involved was started last year by bloggers The Fabulous Giver and Awesomely Luuvie. They recruited more than 100 bloggers to begin a conversation about [...]
Following the Fellows Moves to Wednesday
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW Fellowships, Following the Fellows on March 10, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Thank you to everyone who has been reading and commenting on the Following the Fellows series, which began in summer 2008. Since the beginning, I have shared with you the stories of more than 50 highly accomplished women and 10 widely successful community action projects exemplifying AAUW’s goal of breaking through barriers for women and [...]
At the White House for International Women’s Day
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Dorothy Height, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Girl Scouts, International Women's Day, IWD, Lilly Ledbetter, madeleine albright, Michelle Obama, Paycheck Fairness Act, President Obama, White House on March 9, 2010, | 11 Comments »
I had the honor of representing AAUW at the International Women’s Day reception at the White House yesterday, along with my colleague Kate Farrar. A beautiful, sunny day, we walked to the southeastern gate and chatted with amazing women as about 250 of us waited in line. The Marine Band met us as we entered [...]
You’ve Heard of Schindler, but What about Sendler?
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, Holocaust, Human Rights, In the Name of Their Mothers, International Women's Day, Irena Sendler, Irena Sendler Project, IWD, Life in a Jar, National Women's History Month, Nobel Peace Prize, The Story of Irena Sendler, video, Women's History Month, Women's History Month video on March 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
People exhibited the absolute worst and best aspects of human nature during the Holocaust: unfathomable brutality, unwavering bravery. Irena Sendler is one woman who displayed the latter. Born in 1910, Sendler was a 29-year-old Polish social worker when the Nazis invaded her country. She lived in Warsaw, and when Nazis forced Jews in the area [...]
Meet Cynthia Moss: Neuroscientist and Professor
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged American Fellows, American Fellowship, Bat Lab, bats, Belchertown State School, Cynthia Moss, Following the Fellows, University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts, women in science on March 5, 2010, | 3 Comments »
Bat Facts There are more than 1,000 species of bats. Bats use their wings and tails to grab food and put it in their mouths. Using echolocation, bats can tell the distance of an object within less than a centimeter. Bats are the only mammals that fly. When I first headed to the office of [...]
Don’t Miss Half the Sky Live
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW members, Blog for IWD, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, National Women's History Month, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet, Women's History Month on March 4, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]
Then and Now: The Progress of Our Women Veterans
Posted in NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged #wmnhist, AAUW, ACE, American Council on Education, Benchmarking Women's Leadership, Catherine Ross, female veterans, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, pay equity, STEM, The White House Project, Tribute to Women in the Military, woman veterans, women in the military, Women's Armed Services Act on March 4, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
In 1948, President Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Act , enabling women to serve as permanent members of the U.S. armed forces. Since then, as women have been integrated into most areas of the military, progress definitely has been made. According to The White House Project Report: Benchmarking Women’s Leadership, women now “make up [...]
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