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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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 »
An Insult to Hardworking Career Mothers
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged career, gender equity, Motherhood Penalty, research, wage gap, Women and Work, work/life balance, working mothers, workplace discrimination on June 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
To me the most striking finding from a recent work-family research report that’s getting a lot of online buzz was that the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers is even more pronounced than the wage gap between women and men. Even though I decided early on that I didn’t want to have kids, that doesn’t [...]
The Importance of Female Mentors
Posted in Equity in the News, NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged career, Fellowships and Grants, math, mentor, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, role models, science, STEM, Women and Work, Women of Distinction on June 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Common among the former fellows I’ve interviewed is that having a mentor and being a mentor play important roles in these women’s lives. This message was reiterated in the speech given by Anucha Browne Sanders during the AAUW Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony at the recent National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Sanders said, [...]
Stay at Home Mom — Or Not?
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged career, Healthy Families Act, work, work/life balance, working moms on May 27, 2009, | 5 Comments »
Last week was Work at Home Moms Week, and I just found out about today. It appears most media missed it as well, since a quick scan through various web search engines found little to no coverage of this event. I remember watching sitcoms when the dad had to stay at home for one day, [...]
The Queen of Multitasking Is Taking a Break
Posted in Women & Economic Security, tagged career, multitasking, renewment on August 18, 2008, | 1 Comment »
By Anna M. Rappaport, FSA, MAAA I want to share with you my interest in a new book, Project Renewment. I am a woman who has had a busy career since my early 20s; I am now in my late 60s. I am working to stay active, to re-invent myself, and to try to do [...]
12 Is Not Enough
Posted in Women and Work, tagged business, career, CEOs, corporate ladder, Forbes, Fortune 500, jobs, leadership, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP on July 10, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever wondered what types of corporations are run by women in the Fortune 1,000 or the more prestigious Fortune 500? You would think with all the advances women have made thus far, more women would have jobs at these high-end corporations. This year Wal-Mart and Exxon — which, surprise, have male CEOs — [...]
AAUW Celebrates Equal Pay Day
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged career, equal pay day, gender pay gap, jobs, legislation, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, politics, Public Policy, unhappy hour, women's rights, work on April 22, 2008, | 6 Comments »
As you know, Tuesday, April 22, is Equal Pay Day, the annual symbolic day on which women’s average wages catch up to men’s from the previous year. For the average woman’s salary to equal that of a man’s in 2007, she would have had to work from Jan. 1, 2007, until April 22, 2008. See [...]
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