The first step in any social change is awareness. The documentary Miss Representation inspires awareness about the persistent stereotypes women face in media. The film discusses the ways women are shown in television and movies and how that has led to underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. If you are an AAUW [...]
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Host a “Miss Representation” Screening
Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, College/University Partners, education, Elect Her, Miss Representation, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Sex Discrimination, Start Smart on November 17, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
International Women’s Day Celebrated with Half the Sky Live!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, AAUW, Angelique Kidjo, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, Helene Gayle, India.Arie, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, maternal mortality, Michael Franti, Nicholas Kristof, Rachel Mayanja, Sex Discrimination, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet on March 11, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Ninth Circuit Supports Women Wrestlers
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, Christine Ng, Equal Protection Clause, Legal Advocacy Fund, Mansourian, Ninth Circuit, Sex Discrimination, Title IX, UC Davis, women wrestlers on February 12, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
This week, several former women wrestlers and the plaintiffs of one of the five sex discrimination cases AAUW currently supports are celebrating a win in their long legal battle against the University of California, Davis. From the 1990s through 2001, UC Davis had a women’s wrestling program. In fall 2001, however, the women wrestlers were [...]
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 [...]
No Family = Perfect Woman for the Job
Posted in Equity in the News, Women and Work, tagged Ed Rendell, Equal Pay Act, FMLA, Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, pay equity, pregnancy discrimination, Sex Discrimination on December 4, 2008, | 5 Comments »
Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) was caught on tape saying the following about Gov. Janet Napolitano (D-AZ), who was just nominated to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: “Janet’s perfect for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19 to 20 [...]
Halloween … and Pregnancy?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AT&T v. Hulteen, health, health insurance, LAF, Legal Advocacy Fund, PDA, pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination, reproductive rights, Sex Discrimination, Wendy Williams, women's healthcare on October 30, 2008, | 6 Comments »
Tomorrow is not only my favorite holiday (I love candy and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown”) but also the 30th anniversary of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). In commemoration, this week AAUW issued a press release and launched a new PDA section of the Legal Advocacy Fund’s Online Resource Library. We also signed on [...]
Equity in the News
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged athletics, feminism, Hillary Clinton, reproductive rights, Sex Discrimination, sexual assault, Sexual Harassment on June 17, 2008, | Leave a Comment »
Gender equity-related topics in the news from May 30 – June 13 Someday, a woman will break the White House barrier. Whoever that is will owe Clinton’s 2008 run a huge debt. Women who find Clinton’s candidacy somehow tainted by the fact that she derives power from her husband’s presidency fail to understand traditional paths [...]
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