Ah, New Year’s. The holiday of ugly party hats and gym renewals. AAUW isn’t too concerned with waistlines. We would, however, like to take the opportunity of the day to pause, reflect, and resolve. We’ve already reflected on the wonderful victories for women in 2010. So now it’s time for some solid resolutions, made with [...]
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The Sky’s the Limit for Girls in Science
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Women's History Month, tagged AAUW, ada lovelace, Ada Lovelace Day, ALD10, Explore Your Opportunities, EYO, girls in math, girls in science, National Girls Collaborative Project, National Science Teachers Association, NGCP, NSTA, research, STEM, Why So Few?, whysofew, women in STEM on March 24, 2010, | 4 Comments »
With the release this week of AAUW’s latest research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and the release earlier this month of the most recent issue of Outlook, which also examines the underrepresentation of girls and women in science and technology, the AAUW office is abuzz with excitement. So I [...]
Equity Issues in the News: January 25 – 29
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW Dialog, Catherine Hill, Equity Issues, Huffington Post, Lilly Ledbetter, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Linda Hallman, Lisa Maatz, media, National Girls Collaborative Project, news, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, PBS Newshour, research, Shorty Awards, SOTU, State of the Union, The Secrets of Powerful Women, Twitter, USA Today, wage discrimination, Where the Girls Are, work-life on February 1, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
January 25-29 AAUW Marks One-Year Anniversary of Ledbetter Law with Call for Action The Huffington Post (Friday, Jan. 29) AAUW Executive Director, Linda D. Hallman, CAE, and pay equity activist, Lilly Ledbetter, called for support of the Paycheck Fairness Act in an op-ed that said: “A year ago today, on January 29, 2009, a new [...]
An Insult to Hardworking Career Mothers
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged career, gender equity, Motherhood Penalty, research, wage gap, Women and Work, work/life balance, working mothers, workplace discrimination on June 22, 2009, | 1 Comment »
To me the most striking finding from a recent work-family research report that’s getting a lot of online buzz was that the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers is even more pronounced than the wage gap between women and men. Even though I decided early on that I didn’t want to have kids, that doesn’t [...]
Effects of Pornography on Perceptions of Women and Sexual Violence
Posted in Sexual Harassment, tagged GLBT, media, pornography, research, sexual violence, violence against women on June 12, 2009, | 2 Comments »
AAUW Communications fellow Katherine Broendel guest blogs this month at Framing Science about sexual violence as a social problem. The following entry originally appeared on Framing Science and is cross-posted here. Before I begin writing about what my research has found regarding the framing of sexual violence in the media, I’d like to take [...]
Meet Wendy Crone: Engineering Professor and Mentor
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, mentor, research, Sexism on January 16, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It was an engineering summer camp during high school that really piqued Wendy Crone’s interest in engineering mechanics. During the camp, one professor held a demonstration lab in which he broke different materials and had the students analyze the fractured surfaces. According to Wendy, “That’s when I got hooked” — and she has been breaking [...]
Where Are The Girls?
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged achievement gap, boys crisis, education, race ethnicity gender, research, test scores, Where the Girls Are on May 19, 2008, | 19 Comments »
While I was presenting at the AAUW of New York state convention a few weeks ago, I mentioned the release of the new AAUW research report, Where the Girls Are. In describing the report, I said, “We’ve written a report showing that there is no boys’ crisis in education, because a lot of people still [...]
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