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Sen. Robert Byrd: An Institutional Legacy

Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged , , on June 30, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) passed away early Monday morning. At age 92, Byrd was the longest serving senator in history, and he devoted 57 years of congressional service to the citizens of West Virginia. Elected in 1952, he served with 11 presidents and cast more than 18,500 votes during his tenure. During his extensive legislative [...]

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Elena Kagan Hearings: Day 2

Posted in Social Justice, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, tagged , , , , , on June 30, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

In 1995, Elena Kagan wrote in a book review that Supreme Court confirmation hearings were a “vapid and hollow charade.” Whatever your take on that observation, today she proved that they can also be funny. Responding to a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about where she was on Christmas (a lighthearted precursor to a [...]

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Court Rules Campus Group Cannot Discriminate

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2010, | 2 Comments »

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in CLS v. Martinez that public colleges and universities may require campus-based religious organizations that want university recognition or funds to comply with that university’s anti-bias rules. This ruling stems from a contentious lawsuit brought by the Christian Legal Society (CLS), a campus-based group at the Hastings College of [...]

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Elena Kagan Hearings: Day 1

Posted in Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, tagged , , , , on June 29, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began the confirmation hearings for Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. While seriousness of purpose often marks such proceedings, the hearing began on a particularly somber note with news of the death of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), who represented West Virginia in the Senate for more [...]

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Still Moving Forward: Millennium Development Goals

Posted in Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, tagged , , , on June 25, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

General Assembly hearings were held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on June 14 and 15 to provide formal input, by NGOs, civil society, and the private sector, with U.N. member states’ participation, on the upcoming Millennium Development Goals summit scheduled for September 20–22, 2010. In 2000, then-Secretary General Kofi Annan led the [...]

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3.3 Billion Ways to Change the World

Posted in Equity in the News, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 25, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

This weekend, world leaders (mostly male) from 20 countries will come together in Toronto for the Group of 20 — or G20 — summit. What issues will they cover? They will focus on economic recovery and financial reforms, issues similar to, but not quite the same as, those covered last week at the G(irls)20 summit, [...]

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Previewing the Elena Kagan Hearings

Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 24, 2010, | 1 Comment »

The buildup to Supreme Court confirmation hearings normally leaves Washington, D.C., in a frenzied state. Robert Bork was the conservatives’ dream and the liberals’ nightmare. Clarence Thomas was replacing Thurgood Marshall. John Roberts was the first nominee for chief justice in nearly two decades. Sonia Sotomayor was the first Latina ever nominated. You get the [...]

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Happy Anniversary, Title IX

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women and Civil Rights, tagged , , , , , , on June 23, 2010, | 2 Comments »

Title IX celebrates its 38th anniversary today, while, simultaneously, a court battle is being waged over whether or not the Quinnipiac University competitive cheerleading squad is considered a sport for Title IX purposes. As a former cheerleader myself, one whose squad collectively had one girl capable of more than a cartwheel, I would have to [...]

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Beyond the Primaries

Posted in Voter Education, tagged , , , , , on June 22, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

The commotion quickly settled after the polls closed on June 8 with many of the female candidates surging forward to win. As the results came in, some reporters coined this the “Year of the Woman.” Although June was a successful month for several female candidates, they still faced the same scrutiny and approached the same [...]

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Catching the A Train

Posted in Sexism, Social Justice, tagged , , , , , , , on June 21, 2010, | 2 Comments »

One day last week, during my typical early morning run-through of the Washington Post — the usual order is Metro, Style, then front-page sections — I stopped to read some of Howard Kurtz’s column about Helen Thomas. “Fellow Journalists Let Helen Thomas Down by Not Reining Her In” read the headline of yet another article [...]

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