Mothers devote much of their lives to our well-being. If your mother is retired or nearing retirement, how much do you know about her financial security? Initiating a conversation on this topic may be difficult and can appear intrusive. But just as working women recognize the existence of the pay gap, women in retirement are [...]
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Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Bloomberg LP, jobs, Legal Advocacy Fund, maternity leave, motherhood, pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination, reproductive rights on May 7, 2008, | No Comments »
When my grandmother became pregnant with my mother, her first child, she was fired from her job. My grandfather was still in college and they had no other income, so they scrimped and borrowed from relatives to get by. After my mother was born, my grandmother looked for a new job because she had been [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Educational Programs, Students and Educational Issues, Women and Economic Security, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Campus Action Project, Clarkson University, education, pay equity, pay gap on April 21, 2008, | No Comments »
I was intrigued by an e-mail to attend the first annual Negotiations Challenge at Clarkson, sponsored by the AAUW. The training session was very informative but comfortably informal. I was encouraged to participate, and I felt that the student panel that prepared the material was very approachable and open to questions about the negotiations research. [...]
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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 [...]
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