Women may exercise for several reasons: to reduce stress, to have fun, or to promote their health. The most common reason I hear, however, is to lose weight. It can be easy to end up resentfully seeing exercise as a chore you have to do to make up for those cookies you ate or to [...]
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Why I Tri
Posted in A Women's Nation, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, biking, exercise, health, Nation's Triathlon, running, swimming, Title XI, triathlon, Washington D.C., Women's Health on September 12, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Will You Take a Stand?
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged budget, congress, health, House, Planned Parenthood, Senate on February 28, 2011, | 2 Comments »
After learning that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood last Friday, I experienced a variety of emotions, from disbelief and disappointment to irritation and sadness. While many people have already written about this issue, I still feel compelled to take a stand, and I hope that you will do [...]
The Five W’s of Safe Water
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged children, developing countries, health, preventable death, water, water crisis, Water for People on October 15, 2010, | 3 Comments »
Water is the most precious resource on the planet; it’s nonrenewable, and it’s something that most of us take for granted every day. We are taught in grade school that all living things need water to grow and thrive and that plants, animals, and organisms can’t survive long in the absence of water. Yet, only 62 [...]
Meet Linda Neuhauser: Health Researcher
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Africa, American Fellowship, Berkeley, communication, emergency preparedness, Following the Fellows, health, health research, hunger, Hurricane Katrina, Linda Neuhauser, Mauritania, University of California, USAID on January 22, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Linda Neuhauser, a 1986–87 AAUW American fellow, is currently serving as clinical professor in the Division of Community Health and Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a co-principal investigator at the Health Research for Action center. In 1989 Linda helped found the center — then called the Center for Community [...]
Battling Eating Disorders
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged eating disorders, health, Student Advisory Council on March 3, 2009, | 3 Comments »
Since last week was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, I thought it would be appropriate to recognize this issue that is so prevalent among young women, including on college campuses. Estimates suggest that as many as 10 million females in the United States are currently struggling with an eating disorder, as are 1 million males. [...]
Halloween … and Pregnancy?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AT&T v. Hulteen, health, health insurance, LAF, Legal Advocacy Fund, PDA, pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination, reproductive rights, Sex Discrimination, Wendy Williams, women's healthcare on October 30, 2008, | 6 Comments »
Tomorrow is not only my favorite holiday (I love candy and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”) but also the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). In commemoration, this week AAUW issued a press release and launched a new PDA section of the Legal Advocacy Fund’s Online Resource Library. We also signed on [...]
Stressed Out Women
Posted in Equity in the News, Women & Economic Security, tagged economic security, economics, economy, financial crisis, health, stress, women, women's healthcare on October 21, 2008, | 5 Comments »
My sleep is not as sound as it used to be. I wake up worrying about financial issues. All my life I’ve been told to buy a house, put as much as possible toward retirement, and use advice about stock market issues. What’s that old adage of “don’t buy high and sell low?” Well, through [...]
Uncovered
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged 2008 election, family planning, health, Health and Human Services, health insurance, healthcare, reproductive health on September 10, 2008, | 2 Comments »
Art used in messaging is nothing new, but we’re used to seeing what I call “elevator art” — backgrounds in TV commercials, graphics in magazine ads — even the web has more than its share. So when I saw this on the news the other day, it caught my attention, especially amid the noise of [...]
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