This post is part of a new series on sexual harassment in school, launched in conjunction with the upcoming AAUW report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for more information. How is sexual harassment — the topic of the upcoming AAUW report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School — [...]
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Are You Ready for the Summer?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, tagged Camp, children, gender equity, Gender Stereotypes, Summer, Summer Camp on July 2, 2010, | 30 Comments »
Are you ready for the sunshine? Are you ready for the birds and bees, the apple trees, and a whole lot of fooling around. Can you recall the tune yet? The lyrics from the theme song from the 1979 summer movie classic Meatballs paint a picture of summer camp filled fresh air, swimming, hiking, and [...]
Historic Event at Wimbledon
Posted in Title IX, Women and Work, tagged athletics, gender equity, news, Serena Williams, sports, Venus Williams, Wimbledon, women in sports on July 7, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Despite taking place in the weeks following the 37th anniversary of Title IX, Serena Williams’ 11th Grand Slam victory at Wimbledon this past Saturday over her sister Venus was overshadowed by the men’s final, which saw Roger Federer go 30 games into the fifth set to earn his record-breaking 15th major. This is a shame [...]
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 [...]
International Women’s Struggle to Break through Barriers
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged eating disorders, education, gender equity, self esteem, women's rights, workplace on May 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
On the same day that I read about four women winning seats to the Kuwaiti parliament, I also read a blog post on Muslimah Media Watch about a report that found levels of anorexia among teenage girls in the United Arab Emirates were nearly double those in the United Kingdom. The comments to the post [...]
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