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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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, | Leave a Comment »
Elect Her at Howard, George Washington, and Coastal Carolina
Posted in Elect Her—Campus Women Win, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Coastal Carolina University, education, Elect Her, George Washington University, Howard University, leadership, women leaders on February 23, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Elect Her–Campus Women Win, a collaboration between AAUW and Running Start, encourages and trains college women to run for student government. Follow the links below to read highlights from this spring’s trainings. Start Building Your Network Now — Howard University Your most powerful tool when running for office is your network — whether it be [...]
Seeing Red over Girls’ Exclusion from “Red Tails” Field Trip
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, Dallas, Dallas Independent School District, Dallas Morning News, DISD, education, Lisa Maatz, Red Tails, Texas, Title IX on February 10, 2012, | 6 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 [...]
Are Creative and Inventive the Same Thing?
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Society for Quality, education, inventive, Jane Goodall, Jill Tarter, Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, STEM, Why So Few? on February 7, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
How do you know if you are inventive or an innovator — and whether you’re going to be the next Steve Jobs? Does labeling yourself really make a difference in which profession you go after? It might, at least according to a new — and disturbing — study that suggests a strong lack of interest [...]
More Than 25 Years of STEM in Circleville, Ohio
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Be WISE Camp, Circleville, Denison University, DuPont, Four J Properties, High School, National Chemistry Week, Ohio, PPG Industries, science labs on February 6, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Jane Sutton has been the science chair at the AAUW Circleville (OH) Branch since she launched the first countywide science fair in 1985. The event still takes place today — run by the county schools — and the branch continues to donate a prize to the winning high school student. In the 1990s, Sutton led [...]
College Men, Where Do You Stand?
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, bystander, Georgetown University, Men Can Stop Rape, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment, Where Do You Stand? on February 2, 2012, | 1 Comment »
About one in five women will be raped or experience attempted rape during their college careers, and about two-thirds of undergraduate students — male and female — experience some type of sexual harassment. Because this isn’t just a “women’s issue,” the nonprofit organization Men Can Stop Rape tackles campus sexual harassment and assault in the [...]
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