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This past Thursday, I was given the opportunity to represent AAUW and celebrate International Women’s Day with my peers in a packed theater for a showing of CARE’s Half the Sky Live. While the rest of the building was filled with posters for Jennifer Lopez’s new romantic comedy and Tim Burton’s recent take on yet [...]

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This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]

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March 1 marks the start of National Women’s History Month, and AAUW has strong ties to this annual celebration of women history makers. AAUW is an established historic organization that has helped — and continues to help — women make history. With that in mind, AAUW is excited to partner with the National Women’s History [...]

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AAUW is about to go on a “blogcation” until the new year, but first, we’d like to celebrate some women who have broken through barriers in 2009. In no particular order, AAUW is noting Sonia Sotomayor As the third woman and first Latina on the U.S. Supreme Court, Sotomayor’s confirmation was a historic one that [...]

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Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times has been a champion of women and girls by bringing issues that affect them to the forefront; he has devoted much of his column space to everything from rape as a weapon of war/conflict to acid attacks to microfinance and women’s economic development. He and his wife, Sheryl [...]

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