Jane Sutton has been the science chair at the AAUW Circleville (OH) Branch since she launched the first countywide science fair in 1985. The event still takes place today — run by the county schools — and the branch continues to donate a prize to the winning high school student. In the 1990s, Sutton led [...]
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More Than 25 Years of STEM in Circleville, Ohio
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Be WISE Camp, Circleville, Denison University, DuPont, Four J Properties, High School, National Chemistry Week, Ohio, PPG Industries, science labs on February 6, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
It’s Much More than Kids Being Kids
Posted in AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Sex Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged adolescence, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, gay, High School, middle school, school, Sexual Harassment, teenage behavior, teenagers, youth on November 12, 2011, | 1 Comment »
This post is part of a series focusing on sexual harassment in middle and high school, launched in conjunction with the release of AAUW’s latest research report, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, which was supported by the Mooneen Lecce Giving Circle and the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for updates. This [...]
[Sex]pectations and Harassment
Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged adolescents, Advocates for Youth, Crossing the Line, High School, Kaiser Family Foundation, sex education, sexuality on October 29, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
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. When I was in high school, we were expected to be sexual. There was no official mandate, but the assumption [...]
Boys Assess Their Math Skills Higher than Girls Do
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Gender Stereotypes, High School, math grades, mathematical achievement, National Educational Longitudinal Study, nature publishing group, science publishers, Shelley Correll, Stanford on July 27, 2011, | 3 Comments »
Each month this year, AAUW is teaming up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, to put together an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. Fewer [...]
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