I help AAUW’s volunteer leaders grow their membership in their local communities. Sharing trend information about potential members is critical to the success of their recruitment and retention efforts. I recently gave a presentation at the AAUW of New York State Summer Leadership Conference that a colleague had previously given at another event. Giving this [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Can a 23 Year-Old-Change the World?
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged AAUW, American Association of University Women, Association of Collegiate Alumnae, Baby Boomers, leadership, Marion Talbot, Millennials, Mobilize.org, National council on Aging, NCOA, New York, Rosetta Thurman, Thurman Consulting, turning 65 on July 29, 2011, | 3 Comments »
Self-Assessment Matters
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged calculus, engineering, gender difference, gender gap, math grades, mathematical achievement, mathematics, nature publishing group, physical sciences, science publishers, self-assessment, Shelley Correll on July 29, 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. As [...]
Boys Assess Their Math Skills Higher than Girls Do
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Gender Stereotypes, High School, math grades, mathematical achievement, National Educational Longitudinal Study, nature publishing group, science publishers, Shelley Correll, Stanford on July 27, 2011, | 3 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. Fewer [...]
Meet Laura Jean Beard: Literary Critic and Feminist Scholar
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged American Fellowship, Aregentina, autobiography, Brazil, Candada, feminism, feminist scholars, Following the Fellows, Fulbright, history, indigenous peoples, Johns Hopkins University, Texas Tech University, United States, University of Alberta on July 27, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
I became interested in women’s autobiography around the same time I began calling myself a feminist. I wanted to learn about the realities of women’s lives and hear their stories in their own words, especially since much feminist research seeks to recover the lost perspectives of women whose contributions have been written out of history. [...]
Why Protecting Pell Grants Is a Moral Issue
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged CA, California, Charles Reed, college affordability, financial crisis, low-income students, Pell grants, Save Pell Day, Senate, West Virginia, WV on July 25, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
My home state of West Virginia ranks number two in the Education Needs Index. Though normally I am pulling for the mountain state to be number one in all things, in this model the states ranked highest are “most critical” in their levels of under-education and economic problems like poverty and unemployment. Because of these [...]
Fighting for AAUW Book Sales
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged book sales, booksellers, children's books, children's toys, college scholarships, community outreach, congress, Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, lead, Tenenbaum on July 22, 2011, | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday, July 20, I represented AAUW’s opposition to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s overly burdensome requirement for testing used children’s books. The CPSC held a hearing on what it should do in fiscal year 2013, which begins in October 2012. I urged the commission to revisit its lead safety standard and exempt children’s [...]
On Girls Running the World
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged academia, bloggers, Byoncé, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, communication, glass ceiling, Knowles, music, Nineteen Percent, pop culture, self-confidence, Stanford University on July 21, 2011, | 1 Comment »
At the intersection of pop culture and academia, worlds (and world views) collide. A discussion on Nature Publishing Group’s Women in Science forum — where AAUW regularly shares research findings — has highlighted this collision. Over the last few months, pop star Beyoncé Knowles released her song “Run the World (Girls),” video blogger NineteenPercent’s critique [...]
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