Last week, I took my son on a brief pre-Thanksgiving trip to visit my elderly parents in Kansas City. I took the trip in part to discuss my parents’ retirement finances, to check on their health and benefits, and to assess their physical living environment. Thankfully, life is pretty stable on all fronts for them [...]
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AAUW Gives Thanks
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged Action Network, civil rights, pay equity, Public Policy, sex education, STEM, Thanksgiving, Title IX, wage gap on November 27, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Equalitea, Trains, and Teddy Kennedy
Posted in Voter Education, tagged Democratic National Convention, DNC, dnc2008, Edward Kennedy, Michelle Obama, presidential election, Public Policy, Women's Equality Day on August 26, 2008, | 4 Comments »
The rest of Monday, the first official day of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, sped by. After a brief visit to the Seniors Caucus in the early afternoon — women’s economic security across the lifespan and healthcare reform have long been fixtures in AAUW’s member-adopted Public Policy Program and are key priorities of the caucus [...]
A Glass Ceiling in the Governor’s Office
Posted in Sexism, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged executive branch, glass ceiling, gubernatorial appointments, leadership, policy leaders, Public Policy, state government, women leaders on August 25, 2008, | 3 Comments »
A new report was published by the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society at the University of Albany entitled Glass Ceiling in Gubernatorial Appointments 1997-2007: Appointed Policy Makers in State Government. The center conducted a study that analyzed female policy leaders who were appointed by current state governors. These appointees included department heads [...]
AAUW Celebrates Equal Pay Day
Posted in Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged career, equal pay day, gender pay gap, jobs, legislation, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, pay equity, politics, Public Policy, unhappy hour, women's rights, work on April 22, 2008, | 6 Comments »
As you know, Tuesday, April 22, is Equal Pay Day, the annual symbolic day on which women’s average wages catch up to men’s from the previous year. For the average woman’s salary to equal that of a man’s in 2007, she would have had to work from Jan. 1, 2007, until April 22, 2008. See [...]
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