Community is reinforced daily as a driving force for change. The significance of community and a network of women is the foundation of AAUW’s mission to advance equity for women and girls. Jane Honikman —a nonprofit founder, ambassador, and daughter of an AAUW member — says community was the launching point for her career because [...]
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Meet Jane Honikman: Nonprofit Visionary and Mentor
Posted in A Women's Nation, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, CARE, community, Community Action Grant, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Goleta Valley, International Childbirth Education Association, postnatal trauma, postpartum depression, Postpartum Education for Parents, Postpartum Support International on October 12, 2011, | 1 Comment »
International Women’s Day Celebrated with Half the Sky Live!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Angelique Kidjo, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, Helene Gayle, India.Arie, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, maternal mortality, Michael Franti, Nicholas Kristof, Rachel Mayanja, Sex Discrimination, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet on March 11, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
This past Thursday, I was given the opportunity to represent AAUW and celebrate International Women’s Day with my peers in a packed theater for a showing of CARE’s Half the Sky Live. While the rest of the building was filled with posters for Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy and Tim Burton’s recent take on yet [...]
Don’t Miss Half the Sky Live
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW members, Blog for IWD, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, National Women's History Month, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet, Women's History Month on March 4, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]
Does a Woman’s Nation Change Anything?
Posted in A Women's Nation, Equity in the News, Women & Economic Security, Women's Health, tagged awn, CARE, The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Changes Everything, womansnation, women in the workplace, working moms, workplace on October 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
“I think women should stay at home where they belong. It’s a proven fact that when the women went to work the family started to fail.” Seriously?! Sounds like a statement from Mad Men, the modern television drama series set in the 1960s or at least a quote from the 1970s, doesn’t it? But I [...]
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