Celebrate this Mother’s Day by sending your favorite mom (or moms) a video that’s all about her. Customize a faux movie trailer that tells The Amazing Story of [Your Mom] and how she does it all (she even finds time to fight for fair pay!). Rated I for inspiring, this is one movie trailer you [...]
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Now in Theaters: Your Mom
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Mom's Rising, Mother's Day, movies, trailer on May 4, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
We Need You for the 10 for 10 Campaign!
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged 10 for 10, Association for Women In Science, engineering, howtosmile.org, IBM, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, MentorNet, Mother's Day, National Engineers Week Foundation, NGCP, Society of Women Engineers, STEM, Women in Engineering ProActive Network on February 24, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Girl Day for short) in 2001 was the first national call to professionals to get more girls focused on engineering and technology. The founding partners — the Society of Women Engineers, MentorNet, IBM, the Association for Women In Science, Women in Engineering ProActive Network, and the National Engineers Week [...]
A Mother’s Day Gift That Could Save a Life
Posted in Women's Health, tagged Cervical Cancer, HPV, Mother's Day, Pap Smear, pearl pledge, Pearls of Wisdom on May 6, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
The Pearls of Wisdom campaign, a global effort to prevent cervical cancer and to encourage women and girls to protect their health, is taking big steps this week to reach 4,070 pledges by Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9. Why 4,070? According to Pearls of Wisdom, in 2010 alone, more than 11,000 American women are expected [...]
The Best Mother’s Day Gifts
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $10622, Equal Pay, Mom's Rising, Mother's Day, pay equity, pay gap, Paycheck Fairness Act, wage gap on May 6, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Mother’s Day is just a few days away — the card aisle in every drugstore in America is packed with pink, flowery cards; florists are already starting to make their deliveries; and phone companies are gearing up for one of the busiest days of the year. Since my mom lives in the suburbs of Chicago, [...]
The Value of a Mother
Posted in Women and Work, tagged gender pay gap, Mother's Day, pay equity, salary, work on May 9, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Cooking dinner? $14 per hour Cleaning the house? $10 per hour Healing a scraped knee? $29 per hour Being a stay-at-home mom? $117,000 per year (or $68,000 for working moms) That’s the monetary compensation calculated by Salary.com, a provider of on-demand compensation software and data, in its annual Mom Salary Survey for the time spent [...]
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