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 $1 trillion over the next decade. No doubt the new budget will receive [...]
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$tart $mart at UNC Wilmington
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, 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 »
“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 [...]
Guilty Secrets or Information Overload?
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, affordable health care coverage, civil rights, Equal Pay, Nutrition Facts Labels Often Ignored: What's the fix?, Our Guilty Secrets: The Books We Only Saw We've Read, paid family leave, reading, secrets on November 29, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Over my morning cuppa chai recently, I read an article that got me thinking. The article? “Nutrition Facts Labels Often Ignored: What’s the Fix?” It’s about a recent study that shows that people often lie about what they said they read versus what they actually did read (in this case, nutrition labels). I know I [...]
Money Talks: NC Students Negotiate Their Worth
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, Equal Pay, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, North Carolina, pay equity, University of North Carolina Wilmington, wage gap on December 7, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
As a recent college graduate, I have to admit that in the months leading up to and following graduation, I wasn’t as concerned about whether I would receive fair pay as I was about whether I would find a job. Thankfully, I have strong, intelligent women in my life who offered me advice on selling [...]
It Matters to Men, Too
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Equal Pay, Health-care, Paycheck Fairness Act, retirement, wage gap on June 15, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
We’ve all heard it. Women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. As men, we may instinctively feel empathy for our female friends and casually support the cause for paycheck fairness. But I challenge us all to consider the civil rights-era truism that an injustice against anyone is an injustice against everyone. [...]
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