The saying “what’s old is new again” popped into my mind as I reflected recently on the passing of yet another March honoring women in history. I love history in all forms, about all subjects, and one constant in our ever-changing world is the vicious cycle of history repeating itself. As I read the headlines [...]
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Inequality is Still Alive and Kicking
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged AAUW, Abigail Adams, Bella Abzug, Cleopatra, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jane Austen, Kofi Annan, Margaret Sanger, Olympe d Gouges, Plato, Qiu Jin, Rebecca West, Rosa Parks, Rush Limbaugh, Sor Juana de la Cruz, Volydymyr Lytvyn, Women in World History, Women's History Month, women's rights on March 30, 2012, | 3 Comments »
Zainab Salbi, My Role Model
Posted in Student Advisory Council, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged AAUW, Between Two Worlds, education, leadership, SAC, Student Advisory Council, Women for Women International, Zainab Salbi on March 29, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Both my individual and feminist spirits blossomed during my first year at St. Mary’s College in Indiana. In one of the most powerful courses I took that year, we read Zainab Salbi’s memoir, Between Two Worlds. Salbi is the co-founder of Women for Women International, an organization that empowers and aids women victims of war [...]
Redlands Branch Leads Next Generation of Women in STEM
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, CA, education, Math-Science Conference, Redlands, STEM on March 29, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Before Casey Morgan Hughes applied to be a criminalist at the California Department of Justice more than five years ago, she had no idea that the field even existed. What she did know was that she liked chemistry. She earned her master’s degree in the subject in 2006 and used her knowledge of analytical chemistry [...]
Bringing Philosophical Women out of the Shadows
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Anita Superson, Following the Fellows, Mentoring Project for Pre-tenure Women Faculty in Philosophy, Out from the Shadows: Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy, The Moral Skeptic, The Women in Philosophy on March 28, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Philosophy is, and has always been, a male-dominated field. It has been estimated that women represent only about 21 percent of professional philosophers. Another study reports that of the nearly 300 articles that three top-tier philosophy journals published between 2002 and 2007, only 2.36 percent of the entries were related to feminism. During the same [...]
More than Just Health Care Law at the U.S. Supreme Court
Posted in Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Alpha Delta Chi-Delta Chapter v. Charles B. Reed, Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland, Family and Medical Leave Act, FMLA, Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, politics, Supreme Court, Washington D.C. on March 28, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Although all eyes are turned to this week’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing about the health care law, the court has already made several other important decisions so far this term. Three of these decisions will significantly impact key AAUW issues. In Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Maryland, the court decided that state employees cannot [...]
We Asked, You Answered: Which Women Are Making History Now?
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged AAUW, Angela Davis, Angelina Jolie, Annie Leibovitz, Christine Lagarde, Claudette Colvin, Hillary Clinton, Jane Goodall, Johanna Sigurdardottir, Judith Plaskow, Lady Gaga, Nancy Pelosi, politics, Sandra Fluke, women leaders, Women's History Month on March 27, 2012, | 5 Comments »
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ve been talking about women who are missing from the history books — women like Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on the bus months before Rosa Parks’ famous protest. As March draws to a close, let’s talk about the women who are writing their own [...]
Do You Know How Many Slaves Work for You?
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, human trafficking, Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Protocol to Prevent Suppress and Punish Trafficking Persons, Slavery Footprint on March 26, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
Nearly 140 countries have enacted modern human-trafficking laws, and nearly 150 are party to the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons. This issue is of particular importance to AAUW. During the One Member, One Vote election at the 2011 National Convention, members voted to make combatting human trafficking one of AAUW’s [...]
Happy Hunger Games
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Gary Ross, Jennifer Lawrence, Katniss Everdeen, Rod Roddy, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Twilight, women leaders on March 23, 2012, | 2 Comments »
The reasons to love The Hunger Games and the fact that it is a cultural phenomenon, worthy of record-breaking midnight showings, are many. For starters, Katniss Everdeen is one of the best female protagonists I’ve ever read, especially in the Twilight era. She’s the anti-Bella — she’s smart, driven, and self-possessed, and she cares about [...]
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