A few weeks ago, I was at home with my three little sisters — ages 8, 17, and 19 — watching television. The two teenagers are fans of Love and Hip-Hop, which is a show about the daily lives of wives in the hip-hop music industry. They watch it every week. When I was home, [...]
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Counterbalancing Reality Television
Posted in Student Advisory Council, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, media, reality television, SAC, Student Advisory Council on January 27, 2012, | 3 Comments »
In Defense of Millennial Women
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged ambition, career, double shift, media, millennial women, Millennials, postfeminism, Work-Life Balance on December 5, 2011, | 4 Comments »
As a millennial woman, I take issue with recent media reports that suggest that women in my generation are either voluntarily sacrificing their professional ambition or burning out in significant numbers by the age of 30. These types of stories support the postfeminist media backlash that has been floating around since the advent of the [...]
Tune in for Gender Discrimination
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Bill Maher, commercials, gender norms, media, Sarah Palin, Sexism, stereotypes, television, The Tonight Show, Tide on September 22, 2011, | 3 Comments »
Within one week, I had the misfortune to witness two instances of the kind of gender stereotyping that made me realize we haven’t really come a long way, baby. Unable to fall asleep, I tuned in to the Tonight Show on September 9. Bill Maher was being queried about the chances of Sarah Palin running [...]
The Cameras Just Keep Rolling
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW Legal Advocacy Fund, Bisnow, c-span, Cindy Miller, Cocktails and Convos, Community Action Grants, Gracia Martore, Holla Back DC!, Holly Kearl, Judy Woodruff, Martha Ann Miller, media, news, Paula Kerger, PBS, politics, Washington D.C., Washington Post, women leaders on August 15, 2011, | 1 Comment »
AAUW sponsored a Bisnow event about women in media that took place this past Tuesday morning, just hours before our monthly happy hour Cocktails and Convos. Before the panel discussion featuring Gannett President Gracia Martore, PBS CEO Paula Kerger, and PBS NewsHour Anchor Judy Woodruff, AAUW Chief of Marketing and Communications Cindy Miller spoke about [...]
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