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 [...]
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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 »
The Return on Mentoring
Posted in S T E M, Student Advisory Council, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged advanced degrees, AL, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, mentor, mentoring, National Girls Collaborative Project, University of Alabama, youth on December 16, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
In today’s society, in which young people are consumed by social media and look up to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as role models, it is easy to assume that youths do not want to listen to what you have to say. However, I have found this to be quite contrary to the truth. Each [...]
Alabama Branch Sponsors $tart $mart Workshop
Posted in Educational Programs, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, Campus Outreach Grant, gender gap, Legal Advocacy Fund, lifetime earnings, salary negotiation, The WAGE project, University of Alabama, University of Alabama Huntsville on December 16, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Research shows that the typical American woman misses out on $1 million in earnings over her lifetime because she lacks salary negotiation skills. The $tart $mart workshops address the gender gap in U.S. wages as well as skills and tactics for negotiating salaries. The program is the result of a partnership between AAUW and the [...]
Don’t Ask, Don’t Succeed
Posted in Educational Programs, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged National Student Advisory Council, SAC on December 9, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Now more than ever, it has become apparent to me that people, especially women, have problems with asking for what they want. For example, I’m currently studying abroad in Santiago, Chile, and have a few friends who are having issues with their host-family living situations. I have a friend whom I will call Lisa. She [...]
In Defense of Millennial Women
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged ambition, career, double shift, media, millennial women, Millennials, postfeminism, Work-Life Balance on December 5, 2011, | 4 Comments »
As a millennial woman, I take issue with recent media reports that suggest that women in my generation are either voluntarily sacrificing their professional ambition or burning out in significant numbers by the age of 30. These types of stories support the postfeminist media backlash that has been floating around since the advent of the [...]
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