Today, we are raising awareness about the need for fair pay and hoping for a future when Equal Pay Day happens on December 31 instead of April 17. But our hope must be built on action. As we get closer to November, it’s important to consider how we can use the 2012 election to close [...]
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Inequality is Still Alive and Kicking
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged AAUW, Abigail Adams, Bella Abzug, Cleopatra, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jane Austen, Kofi Annan, Margaret Sanger, Olympe d Gouges, Plato, Qiu Jin, Rebecca West, Rosa Parks, Rush Limbaugh, Sor Juana de la Cruz, Volydymyr Lytvyn, Women in World History, Women's History Month, women's rights on March 30, 2012, | 3 Comments »
The saying “what’s old is new again” popped into my mind as I reflected recently on the passing of yet another March honoring women in history. I love history in all forms, about all subjects, and one constant in our ever-changing world is the vicious cycle of history repeating itself. As I read the headlines [...]
Bringing Philosophical Women out of the Shadows
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Anita Superson, Following the Fellows, Mentoring Project for Pre-tenure Women Faculty in Philosophy, Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy, The Moral Skeptic, The Women in Philosophy on March 28, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Philosophy is, and has always been, a male-dominated field. It has been estimated that women represent only about 21 percent of professional philosophers. Another study reports that of the nearly 300 articles that three top-tier philosophy journals published between 2002 and 2007, only 2.36 percent of the entries were related to feminism. During the same [...]
40 Years Later, the ERA Still Has a Long Way to Go
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, Ben Cardin, Carolyn Maloney, congress, Equal Rights Amendment, politics, Robert Menendez, Senate, Tammy Baldwin, war on women, Washington D.C. on March 22, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. — Section One of the Equal Rights Amendment On this day in 1972, Congress passed the Equal Rights Amendment. In the 40 years since, it has been ratified by 35 states [...]
Call to Action: Stop Rush
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, birth control, Lisa Maatz, politics, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, StopRush, Washington D.C., women's rights on March 5, 2012, | 41 Comments »
Two weeks ago, AAUW hosted Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke at our national office for a Re:Action panel discussion on birth control. It was our way of making sure that she had a platform to speak and be heard since she wasn’t allowed to testify at a recent hearing about contraception at the House [...]
On Contraception, AAUW Makes Sure Women Will Be Heard
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women's Health, tagged #wmnreact, AAUW, Ann Gerhart, Catholics for Choice, congress, Lisa Maatz, politics, Sandra Fluke, Sara Hutchinson, Washington D.C., Washington Post on February 24, 2012, | 22 Comments »
It’s been hard to turn on the news over the past few weeks without hearing the debate over women’s access to contraception. This debate was further inflamed by last week’s House of Representatives hearing on birth control that featured five men and no women on its opening panel. Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown [...]
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