As a graduate student studying higher education administration, I’m learning the importance of mentor relationships for new professionals and the necessity of everyone in the field networking and committing to lifelong learning. Recently, I learned even more about these ideas at the annual conference of Women Administrators in Higher Education, Advancing Women and Narrowing the [...]
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The Importance of Women Helping Women
Posted in Educational Programs, Equity in the News, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Belle Wheelan, mentoring, mentors, pay gap, WAHE on October 1, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Making Ends Meet
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged budget, Caregivers, paid sick days, pay equity, pay gap, single mothers, wage gap on May 26, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Budgeting is hard. From the fist-time job holder or the family of four to the country as a whole, all of us must weigh our choices and make difficult decisions. In the economic recession that we are starting to recover from, we have had to decide how to invest in our futures while we pay [...]
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, [...]
Wonder Bread for the New Breadwinners: Steps Toward the Ideal
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged gender discrimination, pay equity, pay gap, pay inequity, Sex Discrimination, women in the workforce on January 5, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
We have not yet found the magic bullet to end the gender discrimination and inequality that pervade our society. The inequalities are apparent in the ways we socialize our children, care for our sick, and pay our workers. Sometimes it can seem abstract; there is often no data to bring forth charges, no facts to [...]
Underpaid and Ghettoized!
Posted in A Women's Nation, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged A Woman's Nation, american association of medical colleges, debt, economics, new breadwinners, pay gap, salary disparity, Sexism, women breadwinners, women in healthcare, women physicians on December 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Women physicians face barriers common to the “New Breadwinners” in A Woman’s Nation. Women are moving into the physician labor force in record numbers. More than half of the 2009 class entering medical school consisted of women. In 2008 nearly 30 percent of all practicing physicians in the United States were women, according to the [...]
A Shove in the Right Direction
Posted in Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, pay gap, Paycheck Fairness Act, Student Advisory Council, wage gap on February 10, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act is the talk of the town. Only after becoming involved in women’s studies and subsequently becoming a member of AAUW’s Student Advisory Council did I become aware of the pay gap. When I first enrolled in college, I was coming from such a place of poverty [...]
Cinderella’s Journey
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Keep the Change, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, pay gap, Paycheck Fairness Act on January 28, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
As a young girl, I used to watch Cinderella lose her glass slipper, find Prince Charming, and live happily ever after. How often does that happen in real life? Instead of a glass slipper, women ascend up the staircase only to hit the glass ceiling. The glass ceiling is a term I learned about in [...]
Pay Equity — Ancient History?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, pay gap on January 12, 2009, | 9 Comments »
At dinner this weekend, I was chatting with a young woman about the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I didn’t expect her to know about Ledbetter, but to my surprise, she didn’t know about the Paycheck Fairness Act or that women make only 78 cents to the dollar a man makes [...]
Fem2.0 and the Fight for Pay Equity
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged Fem2.0, feminism, Linda Hallman, pay equity, pay gap on November 19, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Lecia introduced us to Feminism2.0, a website that brings together the leadership of major women’s advocacy organizations and online women’s communities. In a recent post there, AAUW Executive Director Linda Hallman addresses the economy and the pay gap: “As the elections highlighted, the economy continues to top the list of issues that women, [...]
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