Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged culture, disney, entertainment, horton hears a who, media, movies, NPR, pixar, ratatouille on April 22, 2008, | No Comments »
Peter Sagal has a point. It’s certainly curious to anyone who cares about girls that the writers behind Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who decided to write in 96 girl characters just so their father could ignore them. In the scene introducing him, the Mayor sits at the breakfast table as his children revolve around [...]
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged career, equal pay day, gender pay gap, jobs, legislation, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, politics, Public Policy, unhappy hour, womens rights, work on April 22, 2008, | 6 Comments »
As you know, Tuesday, April 22, is Equal Pay Day, the annual symbolic day on which women’s average wages catch up to men’s from the previous year. For the average woman’s salary to equal that of a man’s in 2007, she would have had to work from Jan. 1, 2007, until April 22, 2008. See [...]
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, Women and Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Campus Action Project, CAP, Clarkson University, education, Equal Pay, Pay Negotiation, students on April 18, 2008, | No Comments »
The AAUW Leadership and Training Institute program “Negotiations U,” held at Clarkson University this spring, was a great opportunity for me as a participant and as a student leader. When I first heard about the contest and the training program, I knew right away that I would like to participate as a student leader. This [...]
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Economic Security, tagged Blogging for fair pay, Equal Pay, equal pay day, fair pay, Ledbetter Act, pay equity, pay gap on April 18, 2008, | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 22, is Equal Pay Day. This day represents the extra four months a woman must work to achieve pay equity with men for the previous year.
As Equal Pay Day approaches, show your support for pay equity for women. Join bloggers on Friday, April 18, who will be discussing the importance of equal pay [...]
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Title IX, tagged education, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, gender gap, Hillary Clinton, Marriage, Married but Looking, pay equity, social security, Title IX, Women's Rights Convention on April 15, 2008, | 1 Comment »
When you type “women’s rights” into a search engine, you get an interesting set of web links. ”Married but looking” is number six, and I’ll leave what that is to your imagination. What was number one?
The National Park Service page on women’s rights leads the list. Seneca Falls, New York, and the Elizabeth Cady Stanton [...]
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