Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, Blog for IWD, blogging, Center for American Progress, Enough Project, equal rights, International Women's Day, International Women's Day rally, IWD, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, National Women's History Month, NCCWSL, new media, RAISE Hope for Congo Campaign, social media, United Nations, Women for Women International, Women's History Month, Zainab Salbi on March 5, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
As AAUW engages in a variety of new media initiatives to celebrate Women’s History Month, I am excited to blog about a rally to commemorate International Women’s Day. Organized by Enough, a project of the Center for American Progress to end genocide and crimes against humanity, the rally will take place on Monday, March 8, [...]
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Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History Month, tagged #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW branches, AAUW Dialog, AAUW members, ada lovelace, Ada Lovelace Day, blog, blogging, CARE, facebook, Flickr, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, Iron Jawed Angels, March 2010, National Engineers Week Foundation, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, National Women's History Month, National Women's History Project, Nicholas Kristof, Red Pump Project, Seneca Falls, Seneca Falls documentary, Seneca Falls film, Sheryl WuDunn, social media, tweeting, Twitter, women in science, women in tech, women in technology, Women's History Month, Women's History Month events, Writing Women Back into History, YouTube on March 1, 2010, | 3 Comments »
March 1 marks the start of National Women’s History Month, and AAUW has strong ties to this annual celebration of women history makers. AAUW is an established historic organization that has helped — and continues to help — women make history.
With that in mind, AAUW is excited to partner with the National Women’s History Project [...]
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Posted in Black History Month, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged 2003 AAUW Convention, AAUW, Bari-Ellen Roberts, Convention, discrimination, equity, gender discrimination, racism, Roberts vs. Texaco, wage discrimination, women in the workplace, women's issues on February 25, 2010, | 2 Comments »
AAUW has an extensive library that includes books about women’s issues. A few weeks ago when I visited it, I found Roberts vs. Texaco: A True Story of Race and Corporate America by Bari-Ellen Roberts (with Jack E. White), which details the case Roberts v. Texaco. It sounded familiar to me, so I took it [...]
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Posted in Black History Month, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, equity, fellow, Democratic National Convention, Black History Month, University of Texas, Barbara Jordan, Texas Southern University, Boston University School of Law, Workman's Compensation Act, Community Reinvestment Act, Voting Rights Act, National Women's Hall of Fame, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Washington Internship Institute on February 24, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, We the people … When that document was completed, on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that We, the people. I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left [...]
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Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged AAUW Woman of Distinction, Annise Parker, Carol Greider, Caster Semanya, Diane Sawyer, domestic violence, first lady, Half the Sky, International Women's Day, James Chartrand, Jamie Leigh Jones, Katie Couric, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Michelle Obama, Neda Agha-Soltan, Nicholas Kristof, Nobel Prize, Paycheck Fairness Act, Rihanna, Sex Discrimination, sexual assault, Sheryl WuDunn, social media, Sonia Sotomayor, Twitter, Ursula Burns, wage discrimination, women in media, women's media representation, Zainab Salbi on December 30, 2009, | 6 Comments »
AAUW is about to go on a “blogcation” until the new year, but first, we’d like to celebrate some women who have broken through barriers in 2009. In no particular order, AAUW is noting
Sonia Sotomayor
As the third woman and first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sotomayor’s confirmation was a historic one that further broke [...]
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