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Seeing Red over Girls’ Exclusion from “Red Tails” Field Trip

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 10, 2012, | 4 Comments »

My daughter, who is almost 6, recently told me a story about how her teacher addressed a situation where a classmate with a physical disability was excluded from an activity by her peers. After explaining that we are all “made differently” and face different challenges, she asked the class, “What makes you different?” My daughter [...]

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Meet Susan Walker Woolley: Educational Ethnographer

Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 8, 2012, | 2 Comments »

There has been overwhelming interest in AAUW’s most recent research report, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. This attention does not surprise Susan Walker Woolley, a 2010–11 American Fellow whose dissertation corroborates the report’s findings. Woolley conducted three years of ethnographic research at a large public high school in the San Francisco Bay Area. [...]

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Getting “Crossing the Line” into Good Hands

Posted in AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, tagged , , , on February 6, 2012, | 3 Comments »

AAUW did a fabulous job publicizing the new research report, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. Upon its release, the news hit TV, magazines, newspapers, and social media around the country. Now that the initial excitement has faded but the importance of the report remains, how can we get this information into the hands [...]

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Make Lifelong Resolutions

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Student Advisory Council, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged , , , , , on February 3, 2012, | 1 Comment »

We are just one month into 2012, and already many of our well-intentioned resolutions have fallen to the backs of our minds. As treadmill runners dwindle and winter merchandise goes on super sale, it is easy to forget our New Year’s resolutions and to resume our typical lives. But by keeping positive goals and implementing [...]

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Ignore the Boycott! Eat More Cookies!

Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, tagged , , , , on January 23, 2012, | 2 Comments »

This past fall, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomed a new member into their ranks. This in itself is not news. However, the fact that this new scout is transgender — she is biologically male but identifies as female — meant that she faced some challenges before being allowed to join. She was originally denied entry [...]

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Did You Miss the “Tweet-Up”?

Posted in AAUW in the News, Educational Programs, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2012, | Leave a Comment »

Last Friday, AAUW hosted Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the Department of Education’s Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Russlynn Ali for a “tweet-up” (a meet-up on Twitter) to answer questions about Title IX. The online discussion was lively and informative — it drew more than 550 tweets in just three hours. Even an hour after [...]

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Year In Review

Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, Equity in the News, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, tagged , , , , on January 3, 2012, | Leave a Comment »

In a Huffington Post article published late last week, AAUW Executive Director Linda Hallman shared her thoughts on 2011’s most critical moments for women. As 2011 comes to a close, it seems almost nonsensical to have to mention, let alone devote an article to, gender barriers. While women have made great strides, we still have [...]

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Top 20 in 2011

Posted in AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Educational Programs, Elect Her—Campus Women Win, Equity in the News, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Student Advisory Council, Students & Educational Issues, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged , on December 30, 2011, | 1 Comment »

As 2011 wraps up, I’d like to take this opportunity to remember and thank our readers and guests, our contributors, and the AAUW Dialog team, all of whom make this blog such a richly rewarding experience. Excellent posts by diverse voices, from Student Advisory Council members all the way to the AAUW executive director, continue [...]

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A Victory for Fair Pay and Transparency

Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged , , , , , , on December 14, 2011, | Leave a Comment »

In November, United Space, a spaceflight operations company and major NASA contractor, was ordered by a federal court to provide the Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs data regarding its pay and employment practices. This decision reinforces that no employer is beyond the law, particularly when it comes to issues of fair pay. This is [...]

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Human Rights Are Women’s Rights

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2011, | Leave a Comment »

“If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.” These simple yet powerful words, spoken in 1995 by then-first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in an unforgettable speech at the U.N. Fourth World Conference on [...]

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