“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” — Benjamin Franklin AAUW is disappointed that President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal would dramatically reduce the budget and the role of the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, the only federal office exclusively concerned with serving women in the workforce. The [...]
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Holiday…Fear
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged AAUW, HERvotes, news, Payroll tax cuts on December 8, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Usually we think of cheer, not fear, as synonymous with the holiday season. All you have to do is look around in store windows or at TV commercials and you see pretty, shiny objects holding court with cheerful jingles playing in the background. Then there’s that car commercial where the jingle is the surprise clue, [...]
The Hormones Made Her Do It
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, androgen, Career-Life Balance Initiative, education, gender disparities, news, Penn State, Pennsylvania State University, STEM, stereotype threat theory, time magazine on October 18, 2011, | 1 Comment »
The importance of increased women’s representation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been featured in countless newspaper articles, blogs, and published reports. In the last few weeks, it was also addressed at a White House event in support of the National Science Foundation’s Career-Life Balance Initiative. For the most part, discourse around [...]
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