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Packed into a buzzing meeting room in the Dirksen Senate building, I took a long look around. As a summer intern at AAUW, I was thrilled to be at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing addressing the impact of the Wal-Mart v. Dukes Supreme Court decision — a case throughout which AAUW has remained a strong [...]

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During last week’s National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, students learned about opportunities in different professional fields, attended workshops that provided helpful skill-building tools, and took part in seminars that allowed them to share their experiences with leadership, street harassment, planning their futures, and balancing family and school. The workshop topics were as diverse [...]

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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 [...]

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I am Denise M. Decker, a longtime AAUW member who has held several leadership positions on the national, state, and branch levels. I credit AAUW with having changed my life in 1975 when I was awarded an American Fellowship to complete my doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. I have been blind since birth, [...]

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When I was teaching high school in California five years ago, we took about 90 students on a weekend retreat to address issues of diversity. One night the boys and girls were taken into two separate rooms and asked to list all the negative messages they had ever heard about the opposite sex. After a [...]

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In light of Justice Souter’s recent announcement that he is stepping down from the U.S. Supreme Court in June, my colleagues and I were joining with the pundits in pondering who his replacement might be. Many are speculating that President Obama’s first Supreme Court nominee will likely be a woman to fill the space left [...]

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When deciding which woman in academia to highlight in this blog, I decided not to focus on a well-known woman academic leader, such as a woman university president or a distinguished female professor. Instead, I did a Google search to find a woman who has not necessarily been in the public spotlight, but who has [...]

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