“What are you dressing up as for Halloween?” While witches, ghosts, vampires, and mummies used to be the normal response to that question, today, every costume you can imagine is for sale in Halloween mega-shops and online retailers. Gone are the days depicted in my favorite Halloween special, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, when [...]
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“Sexy” Rosie the Riveter
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Beauty Redefined, costume, halloween, HollabackPhilly, over sexualization, Rosie the Riveter, Rosie's Daughters, So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, Spark Summit, Take Back Halloween Body Positive Costume Contest on October 31, 2011, | 2 Comments »
[Sex]pectations and Harassment
Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged adolescents, Advocates for Youth, Crossing the Line, High School, Kaiser Family Foundation, sex education, sexuality on October 29, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
This post is part of a new series on sexual harassment in school, launched in conjunction with the upcoming AAUW report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for more information. When I was in high school, we were expected to be sexual. There was no official mandate, but the assumption [...]
Are College Women Stepping Up?
Posted in Educational Programs, Elect Her—Campus Women Win, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged American Student Government Association, candidates, Cocktails and Convos, college women, elected office, elections, Running Start, student government on October 28, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Since the numbers remain grim for women in Congress and state legislatures, where can we train the next generation of women political leaders? AAUW and Running Start collaborate on Elect Her–Campus Women Win, the only nationwide program that trains college women to run for student government, to answer that question. Elect Her–Campus Women Win will [...]
Meet Claudia Brazzale: Dancer and Interdisciplinary Academic
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Claudia Brazzale, Dancing through Otherness: The Circulation of West African Dance in Italy, education, Falling into the Spectacle: Berlusconi's Performance of Modernity and Gender, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, International Fellowship, London Contemporary Dance School, Merce Cunningham Studio, Princeton University, Rutgers University on October 26, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
2010–11 International Fellow Claudia Brazzale parlayed her dream of being a dancer into a transformative and interdisciplinary career. She is an accomplished dancer, having studied at the London Contemporary Dance School and Merce Cunningham Studio, with an extensive list of productions and choreographies. Brazzale has a multifaceted interest in anthropology and various fields of humanities [...]
Dear ChapStick …
Posted in Sexism, Sexual Harassment, The AAUW Community, tagged advertising, culture, Melissa Wardy, Pigtail Pals on October 26, 2011, | 21 Comments »
As we increasingly focus our attention on the harm done by sexual harassment in schools and the use of demeaning and inappropriate imagery in our culture, we found this story alarming. Reposted here with permission from Pigtail Pals‘ Melissa Wardy, read her open letter to Pfizer on the latest ChapStick campaign … Pfizer Consumer Healthcare [...]
The Culture of Computer Science
Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Allan Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University, computer science, education, STEM, The College Student Experience, Unlocking the Clubhouse, Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, Why So Few? on October 25, 2011, | 1 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. This [...]
U.N. Day
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged 7 Billion Actions, Cuba, israel, population, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, South Africa, U.N., U.N. Day, U.N. Population Fund, United Nationa, United Nations Day on October 24, 2011, | 1 Comment »
AAUW joins the international community today in commemorating United Nations Day. U.N. Day is celebrated every year on the anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations for the purpose of gaining support for the United Nations and spreading knowledge of its work. The theme of U.N. Day this year is recognizing that the world’s [...]
Coming Soon to Your Mailbox, Fall Outlook
Posted in AAUW Outlook, AAUW research, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged 1885, National Women's History Museum, retirement on October 22, 2011, | 1 Comment »
The Fall issue of Outlook magazine is on its way to your mailboxes, but you don’t have to wait to read all the great content because it’s available online now. AAUW members can log in to read about why women over age 65 are increasingly choosing to stay in the workforce and the economic reasons [...]
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