I enjoy the show MythBusters on the Discovery Channel and watch it with my children. It’s interesting to see how many of the legends that we assume to be true or that have been passed down through the years either have no basis in fact or are amazingly spot-on. It also satisfies the curiosity of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘International Women’s Day’
International Women’s Day Celebrated with Half the Sky Live!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Angelique Kidjo, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, Helene Gayle, India.Arie, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, maternal mortality, Michael Franti, Nicholas Kristof, Rachel Mayanja, Sex Discrimination, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet on March 11, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
This past Thursday, I was given the opportunity to represent AAUW and celebrate International Women’s Day with my peers in a packed theater for a showing of CARE’s Half the Sky Live. While the rest of the building was filled with posters for Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy and Tim Burton’s recent take on yet [...]
At the White House for International Women’s Day
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Dorothy Height, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Girl Scouts, International Women's Day, IWD, Lilly Ledbetter, madeleine albright, Michelle Obama, Paycheck Fairness Act, President Obama, White House on March 9, 2010, | 11 Comments »
I had the honor of representing AAUW at the International Women’s Day reception at the White House yesterday, along with my colleague Kate Farrar. A beautiful, sunny day, we walked to the southeastern gate and chatted with amazing women as about 250 of us waited in line. The Marine Band met us as we entered [...]
You’ve Heard of Schindler, but What about Sendler?
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, Holocaust, Human Rights, In the Name of Their Mothers, International Women's Day, Irena Sendler, Irena Sendler Project, IWD, Life in a Jar, National Women's History Month, Nobel Peace Prize, The Story of Irena Sendler, video, Women's History Month, Women's History Month video on March 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
People exhibited the absolute worst and best aspects of human nature during the Holocaust: unfathomable brutality, unwavering bravery. Irena Sendler is one woman who displayed the latter. Born in 1910, Sendler was a 29-year-old Polish social worker when the Nazis invaded her country. She lived in Warsaw, and when Nazis forced Jews in the area [...]
Don’t Miss Half the Sky Live
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW members, Blog for IWD, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, National Women's History Month, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet, Women's History Month on March 4, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]
Category Cloud
-
Recent Posts
- What the AAUW Art Contest Means to Us
- Chris Brown’s Reward
- On Contraception, AAUW Makes Sure Women Will Be Heard
- Elect Her at Howard, George Washington, and Coastal Carolina
- Meet Marina Núñez del Prado: Famed Bolivian Artist
- Nearly a Decade Later, a Settlement in the UC Davis Title IX Case
- Guerrilla Warfare for Women Artists
- Fact: Female Role Models Make a Difference
- Another Presidents Day without a U.S. Woman President
- Thumbs-up Award and AAUW Dialog Art Week
-
Recent Comments
Ameerah McBride, AAU… on Chris Brown’s Reward anita on Chris Brown’s Reward lisagoodnight on Chris Brown’s Reward Victoria on Madam C.J. Walker: “I go… Wholesale Plastic Ba… on Congress Should Act Now to Ext… ShyEntrepreneur on Meet Jessica Faye Carter: Writ… Mikayla Wilson on Madam C.J. Walker: “I go… Categories
Help Stop Sexual Violence
Archives
AAUW Updates- Legislative Alerts
Tags
AAUW National
