“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin AAUW is disappointed that President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal would dramatically reduce the budget and the role of the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, the only federal office exclusively concerned with serving women in the workforce. The [...]
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Questioning the Rationale for Reduced Budget for Women’s Bureau
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged 2013 budget, AAUW, Barack Obama, budget cut, Department of Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Family Medical Leave Act, news, politics, Washington D.C., Women's Bureau on February 15, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
White House Decision Puts Women’s Health over Politics
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged AAUW, Barack Obama, contraception, Washington D.C., White House on February 10, 2012, | 1 Comment »
This afternoon, the Obama administration decided to exempt religious employers from covering birth control for employees, but the new rules will require insurance companies to provide free contraception. The president’s decision is the perfect foil to the political games we’ve seen this past month, and it’s a relief to see women’s health prioritized over politics. [...]
Civil Rights Aren’t Free — Demand Funding for Enforcement!
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, affirmative action, Barack Obama, Department of Education, Department of Justice, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Equal Pay, Office of Federal Contractor Compliance Programs, politics, Sexual Harassment, Title IX, Washington D.C. on January 17, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
The Obama administration will release its budget proposal for fiscal year 2013 in the next few weeks. This will be the first budget proposed since last summer’s agreement to raise the debt ceiling, which committed the federal government to reducing spending by $1 trillion over the next decade. No doubt the new budget will receive [...]
Life Choices … Literally
Posted in A Women's Nation, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, breast cancer, Champions of Change, National Breast Cancer Coalition, Tina Tchen, Washington D.C. on September 29, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Have you ever had to choose whether you would keep a roof over your family’s head versus paying for medical insurance? I hope not. One woman did have this dilemma and told first lady Michelle Obama about it. Tina Tchen, Obama’s chief of staff, shared the story last night during the White House Champions of [...]
Why Women Should Care about the President’s Jobs Speech
Posted in A Women's Nation, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, Barack Obama, congress, Debt Super Committee, employment, Equal Pay, jobs, news, Senate, wage gap, Washington D.C., women's rights on September 2, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Next Thursday, September 8, President Barack Obama will give what’s being touted as a major speech that will pressure the so-called debt “super committee” to focus on job creation and tackling the nation’s high unemployment rate, which stood at 9.1 percent in July 2011. While the speech is of interest to all Americans, it’s particularly [...]
This Won’t Hurt a Bit — No Co-Pay for Immunizations!
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, AAUW, Barack Obama, co-pay, deductable, health insurance, healthcare, immunization, news, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, preventative care, Supreme Court, Washington D.C. on August 18, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Did you know it will “hurt” less this year when you take your child in for their school immunizations? Don’t get me wrong — you will still have to comfort your lil’ tyke after the arsenal of shots. But the usual pain of the office co-pay and deductible has been completely eliminated thanks to the [...]
Debt Deal Signed, Default Averted
Posted in Equity in the News, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, Barack Obama, budget, Budget Control Act, congress, debt ceiling, debt deal, economy, House of Representatives, Medicaid, Pell grant, politics, Senate, social security, Supercommittee, Washington D.C. on August 3, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act, lifting the nation’s debt limit and avoiding a government default. The final law came after months of acrimonious negotiations and faced criticism from both parties. However, this issue is far from over — what happens over the next four months will have an enormous impact on America’s [...]
AAUW Calls on Senate to Confirm Goodwin Liu
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged 9th Circuit, Barack Obama, Berkeley, Capitol switchboard, confirmation, constitutional values, diversity, equality, federal courts, George Bush, Goodwin Liu, judges, judicial nominees, Justice, Kenneth Starr, liberty, Richard Painter, Senate, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Senate on May 18, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Update: On Thursday, May 19, the Senate voted on whether to move to full debate on Liu’s possible confirmation. The cloture vote did not muster the 60 votes required to overcome that procedural hurdle, failing 52-43 on a near-party line vote. Over the last few years, the confirmation of judges has become a political issue [...]
An Interactive State of the Union
Posted in The AAUW Community, Voter Education, tagged Barack Obama, bipartisan, Chili, facebook, Paul Ryan, President, social media, State of the Union, Word Cloud on January 24, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
We here at AAUW know that you’re all looking for fun and exciting (and delicious!) ways to make the president’s State of the Union address tomorrow more interactive. Well, our wonderful Public Policy fellows and I have brainstormed a few great ways to enjoy the annual speech as well as the Republican rebuttal, which will [...]
Denied My Rights as a Woman in the United States
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged Barack Obama, Paycheck Fairness Act, politics, Senate on November 18, 2010, | 5 Comments »
Women make up over half of the population and, as of recently, over half of the workforce, and yet this morning’s major headlines made no mention of yesterday’s crushing defeat of pay equity legislation in the Senate. In case you missed it, there was a 58–41 procedural vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act. We were [...]
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