“We had no idea.” “How can this happen?” “I had never even thought about a pay gap before.” These were comments made by attendees of a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop held in October at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The three-hour workshop, co-sponsored by AAUW and the WAGE Project and hosted by UNCW’s [...]
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$tart $mart at UNC Wilmington
Posted in Women & Economic Security, The AAUW Community, Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW, Campus Outreach Grant, education, Elect Her, Equal Pay, leadership, Universit y of North Carolina, WAGE Project, Wilmington, Women's Studies and Resource Center on December 20, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Alabama Branch Sponsors $tart $mart Workshop
Posted in Women & Economic Security, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, Educational Programs, Sexism, tagged salary negotiation, gender gap, The WAGE project, Legal Advocacy Fund, $tart $mart, lifetime earnings, University of Alabama, Campus Outreach Grant, 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 [...]
First $tart $mart Workshop Held in Oregon
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW Leadership Corps, AAUW of Oregon, Campus Outreach Grant, Chemeketa Community College, LAF, Legal Advocacy Fund, negotiation, Oregon University, salary negotiation, willamette university on May 31, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Eighteen senior women students from Chemeketa Community College, Western Oregon University, and Willamette University participated in a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop on April 29, 2011. This was the first one to be held in the state of Oregon. The three-hour workshop began with information about the wage gap and its consequences, such as the [...]
Would the Lehman Sisters Have Done Any Better?
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged AAUW San Jose (CA) Branch, Campus Outreach Grant, Legal Advocacy Fund, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, work/life, Zappert on March 3, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
How are women doing in today’s economic climate? Recently, students at Santa Clara University received timely and excellent advice about women in the workplace from Laraine T. Zappert, clinical professor at the Center for Neuroscience in Women’s Health at Stanford University School of Medicine, when she presented the “Top 10 Workplace Strategies” to students preparing [...]

