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This post is part of a new series on sexual harassment in school, launched in conjunction with the upcoming November 2011 AAUW report Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School. Follow @AAUWResearch on Twitter for more information.  When sexual harassment happens in middle and high schools, we expect teachers and staff take the steps to [...]

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As the new school year begins, it’s a good time to brush up on Title IX and what it means for students. Signed in 1972, Title IX (officially known as the Education Amendments of 1972) is the federal statute prohibiting sex discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance. This short provision, [...]

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Summer is drawing to a close, so the AAUW blog has decided to take some time to just sit back, relax, and have a long weekend. In our absence, why not check out one of our most popular recent posts or  the top posts from the past year that you might have missed? Enjoy! Dancin’ [...]

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Lulu Sun recently won her Legal Advocacy Fund-supported lawsuit against the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She accused the school of discriminating against her on the basis of gender, race, and national origin and of retaliating against her for complaining. An English professor, Sun filed charges with Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (MCAD), which found probable cause [...]

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At the 2011 AAUW National Convention, I attended the panel Transforming the 21st-Century Workplace: Women and Men as Allies. The panel included Joan C. Williams and John W. Curtis and was moderated by AAUW’s own Seth Chase. Williams is the founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law, Curtis is the director of research and [...]

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Eighteen senior women students from Chemeketa Community College, Western Oregon University, and Willamette University participated in a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop on April 29, 2011. This was the first one to be held in the state of Oregon. The three-hour workshop began with information about the wage gap and its consequences, such as the [...]

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I am Denise M. Decker, a longtime AAUW member who has held several leadership positions on the national, state, and branch levels. I credit AAUW with having changed my life in 1975 when I was awarded an American Fellowship to complete my doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. I have been blind since birth, [...]

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Recently, the Fourth Circuit federal court ruled in favor of Lynette Harris, an electrician with the city of Baltimore, who had sued the city for sexual harassment and discrimination after being subjected to a hostile work environment with sexually explicit pictures and offensive language. Harris was also repeatedly passed over for promotion. AAUW signed an [...]

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On Equal Pay Day in April, the AAUW Long Beach (CA) Branch collaborated with California State University, Long Beach, to host a panel to educate the campus and community about the gender wage gap. The panel, which was funded by an AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund Campus Outreach grant, included Alejandra Cox Edwards, professor in the [...]

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Today is an important day for pay equity and workers’ rights as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the Wal-Mart v. Dukes case. AAUW supported the lead plaintiffs financially through the AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund and by signing an amicus brief earlier this month. The generous support of AAUW members ensured that the [...]

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