This is the final of several blogs from AAUW Chief of Strategic Advancement Jill Birdwhistell written during her recent trip to Paris on behalf of AAUW to attend a UNESCO conference. A Case for Sex- and Gender- Based Analyses Sometimes, the little things are the big things. And so it was for all of us participating in the [...]
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Of Mice and Men
Posted in S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged disease, gender analysis, lab mice, medical research, mice, morbidity, mortality, sex analysis, UNESCO on October 12, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Title IX Applies to Private Schools
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Caitlin Russon, Greensburg Central Catholic High School, private schools, Russo, U.S. District Court on October 12, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Caitlin Russo, a student at Greensburg Central Catholic High School in Pennsylvania, was being harassed by a teacher. She complained to the school’s administrators, but they ignored her and suggested she was out to ruin the teacher’s reputation. She also complained to the Diocese of Greensburg, which runs the high school, but they also ignored [...]
Sex Columns Need Value, Not Dirt
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Discovery, feminist, GW Hatchet, Sex, Shark Week, student newspaper, The George Washington Uiversity on October 11, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
The first edition of George Washington University’s student newspaper this year brought two surprises for me, a new graduate student. One, the newspaper featured a column called “Let’s Talk about Sex.” (All right!) Two, the first sex column was a dirty, clichéd, likely made-up story about sex and the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week. (Excuse me?) [...]
Why Even Fewer?
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged engineering, family, human potential, international, science, technology on October 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This is the third of several dispatches from AAUW Chief of Strategic Advancement, Jill Birdwhistell, written during her recently concluded trip to Paris for a UNESCO conference on behalf of AAUW. Why would it be difficult to give fully qualified CentralAfrican women scientists full-ride support for doctoral and post-doc studies in Sweden? Why would promising [...]
Protecting Equality in Small Businesses
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged business, families, Paycheck Fairness Act, Senate, small business on October 8, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
This is the first post in a five-part series debunking the myths surrounding the Paycheck Fairness Act. The Paycheck Fairness Act: Protecting Equality in Small Businesses If you found your way to this blog, chances are you already know how much women need the Paycheck Fairness Act (S. 3772) to pass when the Senate reconvenes [...]
Pinking
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged design, gender analysis, pinking, product design, safety, UNESCO on October 6, 2010, | 2 Comments »
This is the second of several blogs from AAUW Chief of Strategic Advancement Jill Birdwhistell written during her recent trip to Paris on behalf of AAUW to attend a UNESCO conference. The View from the UNESCO Working Group on Gender, Science, and Technology Product designers need to stop pinking and start thinking. “Pinking” is the term coined [...]
Mainstreaming Sex and Gender
Posted in Equity in the News, S T E M, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged gender analysis, Londa Schiebinger, Standord University, UNESCO on October 5, 2010, | 3 Comments »
This is the first of several blogs from AAUW Chief of Strategic Advancement Jill Birdwhistell written during her recent trip to Paris on behalf of AAUW to attend a UNESCO conference. How are sex and gender reflected in participation in science, technology, engineering and math fields? And how can we create systemic changes that will decrease the [...]
Who’s to Blame for the Classroom Chaos?
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Education Nation, Michelle Rhee, NBC, President Obama, public education on October 5, 2010, | 4 Comments »
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee was smack in the center of NBC’s Education Nation last week talking about teachers, unions, and class results. In one of her many recent TV appearances (at the 6:30 mark), Rhee talked about how the teaching profession has changed over the years: The quality of teachers used to be [...]
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