Originally posted by The Women’s Media Center, a non-profit organization founded by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan, dedicated to making women visible and powerful in the media. Today, as we do every year in April, AAUW and our allies mark Equal Pay Day. This day represents how far into the next year the [...]
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The Paycheck Fairness Act: Now an Economic Imperative
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged 77 cents, Behind the Pay Gap, Equal Pay, equal pay day, pay equity, Women's Media Center on April 20, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Equal Pay for Equal Work
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged #PFA, Chris Dodd, equal pay day, Ledbetter, Paycheck Fairness, wage gap on April 20, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
By Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT). Re-posted with permission. Today is Equal Pay Day, the day until which women have to work to make up the earnings they were shorted in 2009 compared to their male colleagues. Frankly, it’s a little embarrassing that the fight for equal pay continues in the year 2010. It’s hard to [...]
Marking Equal Pay Day
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Blog for Fair Pay, EPD, Equal Pay, Equal Pay Act of 1963, equal pay day, In the Red, Lilly Ledbetter, Paycheck Faierness Act, Paycheck Fairness on April 20, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW members and pay equity advocates all across the country are marking Equal Pay Day today. Marking the day, not celebrating the day. We will celebrate when we no longer need Equal Pay Day, when pay discrimination and the wage gap are things of the past, when women’s wages are finally equal to men’s. Until [...]
Sunny Skies, Soft Breezes, Beautiful Mountains … and Empowered Women!
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Campaign College, University of West Indies at Mona, Uwi on April 15, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Campaign College at the University of West Indies at Mona in Kingston, Jamaica, may seem far flung, and, honestly, everyone I know was jealous that I got to head to a Caribbean island for work, but I have to agree, that I was quite lucky to be able to call this training, which empowers college [...]
Meet Amy Cerato: Geotechnical Engineer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, tagged Amy Cerato, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, education, Following the Fellows, Geographical Engineer, Project Profile on April 14, 2010, | 3 Comments »
The summer before her junior year of high school, Amy Cerato spent six weeks revegetating trails and building bridges in the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park as part of a summer program through the Student Conservation Association. Amy and her team members lived in tents six miles in the back country, in a place so [...]
Recruiting Women to Teach Physics
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Jesslica Rosedberg, National Science Foundation, NSF, Why So Few?, women in science on April 13, 2010, | 1 Comment »
While AAUW’s new research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, brings attention to a significant problem that clearly calls for improvement, it is important to recognize some of the “few” who are out there already doing their part to make sure there are “more” — lots more — women in [...]
Sexual Assault on College and University Campuses: What You Don’t Know
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, Women's Health, tagged ACPA, ending rapte through peer education, John D. Foubert, NCHERM, sexual assault awareness, sexual assault on campus on April 13, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Violence against women, specifically sexual assault, continues to be a serious problem on college and university campuses. As we embark on Sexual Assault Awareness Month, it is essential for colleges and universities to provide educational programming for students and ensure they have visible resources and support on campus. As a sexual assault peer educator at [...]
Is the Women’s Movement Relevant Today?
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged equal pay day, Lilly Ledbetter, paycheck fairlness act, Paycheck Fairness Act, SAC, Student Advisory Council on April 9, 2010, | 1 Comment »
There are many signs of change around us that are a result of the women’s movement. For example, women have achieved prominent positions in government and in academia. In Congress there are a record number of women: 16 women in the Senate and 76 women in the House of Representatives. Yet women in Congress comprise [...]
Swindling Grandma
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged economic security, grandparents, scam on April 8, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Usually when you get a call from a grandchild, it’s a good thing, right? In recent weeks, however, a new twist on an old scam has seen grandparents across the country wiring money to someone else’s grandkids! As one AAUW member saw on the news last week, the scam starts with a simple phone call. [...]
The Trailblazing Women of NCCWSL
Posted in NCCWSL, tagged National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, women leaders on April 7, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, I would like to spotlight and thank the amazing Founding Mothers of this conference as well as all of the outstandingly dedicated chairs and committee members who succeeded them. In 1983, Donna Shavlik, then-director of the Office for Women at the American [...]
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