“No botox, no detox. My name is Loretta Ford, and I approve this message.” So ended the speech of 91-year-old Ford as she accepted her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame along with 10 others last weekend in Seneca Falls, New York. The tone of her remarks was unexpected, yet they captured the [...]
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Meet Gwendolyn Pough: Author and Black Feminist Theorist
Posted in A Women's Nation, Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Check It While I Wreck It, Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood Hip Hop Culture and the Public Sphere, Conference on College Composition and Communication, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Following the Fellows, Gwendolyn Pough, Gwyneth Bolton, Miami University in Ohio, Northeastern University, Syracus University on August 31, 2011, | 1 Comment »
2003–04 AAUW American Fellow Gwendolyn Pough was drawn to black feminist thought when one of her professors gave her a copy of bell hooks’ Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. While working toward her master’s and doctoral degrees in English from Northeastern University and Miami University in Ohio respectively, she sought out texts [...]
Meet Nicole Prévost Logan: Author and Global Citizen
Posted in A Women's Nation, Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American University, Belgium, Earthwatch, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Following the Fellows, Forever on the Road, France, Grants & Awards, Kremlin, Moscow, Nigeria, Russia, Sorbonne, South Africa, Soviet Union, Stanford, Stanford University, Taiwan, U.S. Foreign Service on August 17, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
When I met 1950–51 AAUW International Fellow Nicole Prévost Logan at the AAUW national office in Washington, D.C., I had no idea that I was sitting across from a woman who had spent more than 30 years traveling among three continents, mingling with officials and dignitaries from all over the world, and learning several languages [...]
All-China Meets AAUW
Posted in A Women's Nation, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, All-China Women's Federation, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Grants & Awards, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, international fellowships, Jiangsu, leadership, National Girls Collaborative Project, STEM, The People's Bank of China, Tibet Women's Association, U.S.-China Exchange Council, women leaders, Yangzhou on August 8, 2011, | 2 Comments »
As a part of AAUW’s ongoing commitment to improving the status of women and girls globally via fellowships, grassroots programming, and advocacy, AAUW recently hosted 18 women from the All-China Women’s Federation. The Federation was established in 1949 by the Chinese government and has become the largest women’s nongovernmental organization in that country. It represents [...]
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