Eighteen senior women students from Chemeketa Community College, Western Oregon University, and Willamette University participated in a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop on April 29, 2011. This was the first one to be held in the state of Oregon. The three-hour workshop began with information about the wage gap and its consequences, such as the [...]
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First $tart $mart Workshop Held in Oregon
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW Leadership Corps, AAUW of Oregon, Campus Outreach Grant, Chemeketa Community College, LAF, Legal Advocacy Fund, negotiation, Oregon University, salary negotiation, willamette university on May 31, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Take a Spin around the Web with Blog Carnivals
Posted in Educational Programs, NCCWSL, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Carnegie Mellon, Grad School, graduate programs, graduate studies, MBA, rit, saunders college, syracuse university, tepper, thunderbird, villanova, whitman, willamette university on May 27, 2011, | 2 Comments »
As part of AAUW’s summer season of women’s leadership, we are hosting blog carnivals for the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders and the 2011 AAUW National Convention. As a preview to the NCCWSL blog carnival, we’ve invited schools that are exhibiting at the conference’s Graduate School Fair to blog about the programs they [...]
Innate Ability or Passion and Commitment?
Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged adolescents, Dweck, growth mindset, innate ability, natural talent, Stanford University, struggle on May 27, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. Psychologist [...]
Growth Mindsets Benefit Girls and Women in STEM
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Dweck, Gender Stereotypes, growth mindset, math, Stanford University, stereotypes on May 26, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. Stanford [...]
Growth Mindset Research Studies
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, The AAUW Community, tagged Dweck, growth mindset, junior high school, learning, mindset, Stanford University on May 26, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. In [...]
Multiple Sclerosis: Charting a Different Journey
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged disability, disbility rights, Health-care, Job Accomodations Network, Martina Navratilova, MS, multiple sclerosis, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, paid sick leave, Work-Life Balance, World MS Day on May 25, 2011, | 5 Comments »
A lot can change over a very short period of time. For nearly a half million people nationwide and 2.1 million worldwide, this is one of those simple, powerful, and sometimes painful truths we know all too well. Today is World MS Day, a day designated to raise awareness about a chronic, often disabling disease [...]
Beliefs about Intelligence
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Dweck, growth mindset, intelligence, Nature, Nature Publishing, Stanford, struggle on May 24, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. So [...]
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