AAUW applauds the White House’s release of a progress report detailing the activities of the president’s Equal Pay Task Force. The report was released along with a presidential proclamation to mark April 17 as Equal Pay Day, the day women’s earnings finally catch up to what men made last year. The task force was created [...]
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Equal Pay Task Force Shows Vital Progress
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged Department of Justice, discrimination, EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, equal pay day, fair pay, National Equal Pay Task Force, Paycheck Fairness, White House on April 19, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
AAUW Invites You to an Equal Pay Twitter Chat
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged Department of Justice, Elianne Ramos, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Equal Pay App, Lisa Maatz, National Equal Pay Task Force, Patricia Shiu, Sara Manzano-Diaz, U.S. Department of Labor on April 18, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Women make up nearly half of the U.S. labor force and play a vital role in the nation’s economy. Yet women, on average, make less on the dollar than men, and the gap is even greater for women of color and women with disabilities. Lower pay means less economic security not only for women but [...]
Top Five Reasons Why Fair Pay Matters This Election
Posted in Educational Programs, Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged 99%, Election, equal pay day, fair pay, Grace and Grit, Lilly Ledbetter, Paycheck Fairness, WI, Wisconsin on April 17, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
The Grace and Grit of Lilly Ledbetter
Posted in AAUW Outlook, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged AAUW National Convention, Alabama, feminist heroes, Goodyear, Grace and Grit, Lilly Ledbetter, pay discrimination, Sewall-Belmont House on April 16, 2012, | 2 Comments »
When Lilly Ledbetter sat next to me at the AAUW National Convention last June, I almost burst into tears. Somehow I managed to hold it together, reattach the lower portion of my jaw, and lean over to awkwardly whisper, “It’s an honor to sit next to you.” “Oh, aren’t you sweet?” Ledbetter responded, reaching over [...]
Disabled like Me
Posted in Educational Programs, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged ableism, disability, disability policy, Disability Rights, Obama Administration, Ola Ojewumi, Rebecca Cokley, SAC, Student Advisory Council, University of Maryland, White House on April 14, 2012, | 2 Comments »
I am an African American. I am a woman. I am disabled. I stand as a triple minority, and each of these identities has afforded me a variety of unique life experiences. As I enter a room in my wheelchair, I am faced with the inevitable stares of pity and discernment. The world seems to [...]
Are College Women Thinking about Their Future Paychecks?
Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, Equity in the News, NCCWSL, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged AAUW Woman of Distinction, college women, congress, fair pay, Goodyear, Grace and Grit, keynote speaker, leadership, Lilly Ledbetter, pay discrimination, Paycheck Fairness, University of Maryland on April 13, 2012, | 1 Comment »
College women probably don’t give much thought to the paychecks they’ll earn after graduation. That’s not to say they don’t want to get paid or that they don’t want to make good money — they do. Who doesn’t want to earn a salary equal to what her work is worth? But what probably isn’t on [...]
The Simple Truth
Posted in AAUW research, Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged african american women, equal pay day, fair pay, fair wages, gender, Gloria Steinem, hispanic women, latina women, pay gap, social change, The Simple Truth, wage gap on April 12, 2012, | 2 Comments »
Before I started working at AAUW, I never really gave much thought to the gender pay gap. Sure, I knew it existed. I knew the numbers — women make 77 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men — and I wasn’t pleased about it, but that was about the extent of my concern. [...]
Do I Look Suspicious?
Posted in AAUW research, Equity in the News, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Betty Dukes, catcalls, clothing, hoddie day, Sexual Harassment, sexual harassment in schools, stereotypes, Trayvon Martin on April 10, 2012, | 2 Comments »
Young, white, and female — that’s me. Young, black, and male — that’s Trayvon Martin. Not much in common, huh? The privilege of being a white woman makes it impossible for me to understand what it was like to be Martin. So I won’t pretend that I do. But I will stand in solidarity with [...]
Win a Signed Copy of Lilly Ledbetter’s Book
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged April 17, contest, equal pay day, Grace and Grit, Lilly Ledbetter, Linda Hallman on April 9, 2012, | 6 Comments »
Equal Pay Day is not our favorite holiday. Next Tuesday, April 17, is the symbolic day when women’s wages catch up with what men made last year. We’d much prefer to mark the occasion on December 31, and we’re working hard to make that happen. In the meantime, we’ll still mark Equal Pay Day every [...]
Women’s Orgs Vow to Fight Back at the Polls
Posted in AAUW in the News, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged AAUW, HERvotes, It's My Vote: I Will Be Heard, My Vote, politics, Washington D.C., women leaders, women's rights on March 7, 2012, | 2 Comments »
Last week, as the Senate prepared to vote on the Blunt amendment to limit insurance coverage for contraception, a coalition of more than 50 women’s organizations held a press conference at the National Press Club to announce an unprecedented drive to mobilize women voters — on the ground and online — around health and economic [...]
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