Whether she is a teacher, a politician, a friend, or a mother, having a woman to look up to has proven to be a crucial part of girls’ development. A woman in a position of power allows girls to envision themselves in the same position and to create goals for their own success. Because today [...]
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Fact: Female Role Models Make a Difference
Posted in Educational Programs, Elect Her—Campus Women Win, NCCWSL, tagged CNN, Connie Chung, Courtney Martin, Desmond Tutu Peace Centre, Esther Duflo, female leaders, female role models, George Washington University, India, Katie Orenstein, leadership, Margi Vanderhye, mentor, mentoring, MIT, Nomfundo Walaza, Presidents Day, Sheryl Sandberg, Virginia, West Bengal on February 20, 2012, | 2 Comments »
The Return on Mentoring
Posted in S T E M, Student Advisory Council, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged advanced degrees, AL, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, mentor, mentoring, National Girls Collaborative Project, University of Alabama, youth on December 16, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
In today’s society, in which young people are consumed by social media and look up to Kim Kardashian and Kanye West as role models, it is easy to assume that youths do not want to listen to what you have to say. However, I have found this to be quite contrary to the truth. Each [...]
SisterMentors: Building the Dream for 15 Years
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Conference Center, Community Action Grant, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, mentor, Shireen Lewis, SisterMentors, Washington D.C. on October 19, 2011, | 3 Comments »
AAUW holds a special place in my heart. I received an American Fellowship during the last year of my pursuit of my doctorate, and I was awarded a Community Action Grant to help SisterMentors, the nonprofit program that I founded. I started SisterMentors in 1997 because I wanted to be in the company of women [...]
Project Profile: Sisters Empowering Sisters
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Community Action Grants, domestic violence, Following the Fellows, mentor, Project Profile on September 25, 2009, | 1 Comment »
On August 27, after a three-week delay, Chris Brown’s sentence for his felony assault conviction was handed down: five years’ probation and 180 days of community labor. He was convicted of abusing the singer Rihanna, repeatedly punching her in the face and threatening to kill her. Teenagers nationwide followed the story on TV and in [...]
The Importance of Female Mentors
Posted in Equity in the News, NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged career, Fellowships and Grants, math, mentor, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, role models, science, STEM, Women and Work, Women of Distinction on June 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Common among the former fellows I’ve interviewed is that having a mentor and being a mentor play important roles in these women’s lives. This message was reiterated in the speech given by Anucha Browne Sanders during the AAUW Women of Distinction Awards Ceremony at the recent National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. Sanders said, [...]
Meet Angela Lindner and Jessica Strate Beach: Environmental Engineers
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Engineers without Borders, environmental engineering, Following the Fellows, mentor, Selected Professions Fellow, STEM on June 5, 2009, | 2 Comments »
While 1997–98 Selected Professions Fellow Angela Lindner had never experienced sexism during her undergraduate studies in chemistry at the College of Charleston, during one of her first days in a chemical engineering class as a master’s candidate she saw an ugly side that many women in STEM have faced. She was one of two women [...]
The Shoulders of Giants
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African Ameriican, Alice Phinney, engineering, mentor, minority engineers, Peggy Olorunsola, Women and Work on March 27, 2009, | 2 Comments »
They say that behind every successful man is a woman. I think it’s also fair to say that behind every successful woman is a woman — or, more likely, many women. Women’s History Month is a good time to think about the women who have helped us get where we are today — our mothers, [...]
Project Profile: Eureka
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged Community Action Grant, mentor, science, STEM on March 27, 2009, | 1 Comment »
“Leading and encouraging a small group of female students in STEM activities has been a dream of mine for a long time,” said Gudrun Hutchins, a 2004–06 Community Action Grant recipient. Gudrun worked for many years as an experimental laboratory physicist mentoring young women at work and occasionally giving presentations about women in math and [...]
Meet Wendy Crone: Engineering Professor and Mentor
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, mentor, research, Sexism on January 16, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It was an engineering summer camp during high school that really piqued Wendy Crone’s interest in engineering mechanics. During the camp, one professor held a demonstration lab in which he broke different materials and had the students analyze the fractured surfaces. According to Wendy, “That’s when I got hooked” — and she has been breaking [...]
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