The theme for this year’s Black History Month is Black Women in American Culture and History, so this post will tell the story of a woman who went unknown for far too long. More than 60 years ago, in February 1951, a remarkable woman named Henrietta Lacks left the world a stunning legacy that may [...]
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Remembering Henrietta Lacks, the Woman behind HeLa Cells
Posted in Black History Month, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History, tagged AAUW, Black History Month, Black Women in American Culture and History, Fellowships and Grants, HeLa, Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal LIfe of Henrietta Lacks on February 16, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
A Mid-Summer’s Break
Posted in Black History Month, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, Women's History, tagged culture, equal rights, gender equality, military, self esteem, Summer on August 19, 2010, | 1 Comment »
We’re taking a short “blog-cation” this week. We’ll be back next Thursday, August 26, National Women’s Equality Day, with an update on a powerful and important story! In the meantime, here are links to some of our all-time most popular posts. Enjoy! Should Women Have Equal Rights? (June 2008) (Wo)man vs. Beast (August 2009) Madam [...]
Equity Issues in the News – February 17 – 26
Posted in Black History Month, Equity in the News, Women's History Month, tagged AAUW, AAUW Public Policy Fund, Barbara Jordan, Betsey Stevenson, Black History Month, Dayton Daily News, Equity Issues in the News, Evelyn Boyd Granville, Know the Score, Legal Advocacy Fund, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Day, Lisa Maatz, Mansourian, Nancy Sharp, Notable Women in Mathematics, Politics Daily, Riverside Branch, Scottsdale branch, Scottsdale Community College, Secrets of Powerful Women, Sex Discrimination, sexual assault, The Arizona Republic, The Seahawk, The Times-Picayune, Title IX, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Vivid Living blog, Wharton School, Women's History Month, Women's Media Center, Women's Philanthropy, Yale University on February 26, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
February 17–26 Support AAUW by Purchasing Powerful, New Book: Secrets of Powerful Women Vivid Living blog (Wednesday, Feb. 17) Bloggers are praising Secrets of Powerful Women, which features a chapter written by AAUW Public Policy Director Lisa Maatz. Freelancer Nancy Sharp called it “a jewel of a book that I want to recommend to women [...]
Too “Uppity” to Promote
Posted in Black History Month, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged 2003 AAUW Convention, AAUW, Bari-Ellen Roberts, Convention, discrimination, equity, gender discrimination, racism, Roberts vs. Texaco, wage discrimination, women in the workplace, women's issues on February 25, 2010, | 2 Comments »
AAUW has an extensive library that includes books about women’s issues. A few weeks ago when I visited it, I found Roberts vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America by Bari-Ellen Roberts (with Jack E. White), which details the case Roberts v. Texaco. It sounded familiar to me, so I took it [...]
Barbara Jordan: “I Have Finally Been Included in We, the People”
Posted in Black History Month, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, Barbara Jordan, Black History Month, Boston University School of Law, Community Reinvestment Act, Democratic National Convention, equity, fellow, National Women's Hall of Fame, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Texas Southern University, University of Texas, Voting Rights Act, Washington Internship Institute, Workman's Compensation Act on February 24, 2010, | 3 Comments »
Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, We the people … When that document was completed, on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that We, the people. I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left [...]
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