Within one week, I had the misfortune to witness two instances of the kind of gender stereotyping that made me realize we haven’t really come a long way, baby. Unable to fall asleep, I tuned in to the Tonight Show on September 9. Bill Maher was being queried about the chances of Sarah Palin running [...]
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Tune in for Gender Discrimination
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Bill Maher, commercials, gender norms, media, Sarah Palin, Sexism, stereotypes, television, The Tonight Show, Tide on September 22, 2011, | 3 Comments »
Labor Union Women Making History
Posted in Sexism, Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged Arlene Holt Baker, Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award, CLUW, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Elizabeth Shuler, Jane Broendel, labor movement, labor union women, Linda Chavez-Thompson, NALC, Nancy Wohlforth, National Association of Letter Carriers, National Women's History Month, NWHM, Sexism, unions, women in the labor movement, Women's History Month on March 30, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Who has been honored this month with esteemed women such as Linda Chavez-Thompson, Augusta Thomas, Elizabeth Shuler, Arlene Holt Baker, and Nancy Wohlforth? My mom! I know it may sound a bit cliché, but for Women’s History Month, I would like to recognize my mother, Jane Broendel. As the first female officer for the National [...]
Underwear and Wage Discrimination?!
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Women and Work, tagged gender discrimination, pay equity, Sexism, wage discrimination on December 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Most women have faced discrimination in one form or another. I’m old enough to tell tales of blatant wage discrimination, simply because, as one boss told me, “You are a woman in a man’s field.” I literally laughed out loud at the time thinking he was joking, but his affront at my laughter made me [...]
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 [...]
Women-only Baby Showers: Empowering or Stereotypical?
Posted in Sex Discrimination, tagged baby showers, gender stereotyping, Sexism on September 28, 2009, | 6 Comments »
How “normal” is it to have women-only baby showers? According to popular media, it’s the way baby showers are done. No men. Additionally, the way showers are discussed can highlight the stereotypical disdain men sometimes have when considering baby showers. Take, for instance, an episode toward the end of season four of Friends. Monica and [...]
Meet Robin Blaetz: Women’s Avant-Garde Cinema Researcher
Posted in Women and Work, tagged American Fellowship, Avant Garde, Cinema, Fellowships and Grants, film, Following the Fellows, Francophile, French, Grants & Awards, grants and awards, Sexism on May 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
After graduating with a bachelor of arts in English and French, 2004–05 American Fellow Robin Blaetz traveled to Paris to reflect on her future. Within a month of arriving, Robin identified her new passion: avant garde film. She returned from Paris and applied to New York University’s cinema studies program, which claims to be the [...]
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 [...]
Only Men Like History?
Posted in Sexism, tagged gender, history, Sexism, STEM on January 13, 2009, | 3 Comments »
During winter break I saw something interesting at a well-known bookstore in my town. I take my kids there a lot, and we do homework or just read together. A few weeks ago I was looking for history magazines, and I couldn’t find them. Well, it turned out that the bookstore put them in the [...]
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