On Tuesday, January 24, President Barack Obama will give the annual State of the Union address. Obama has heard from organizations all over the political spectrum about what they think his priorities should be for the next year. AAUW is no exception. Below, in no particular order, is our wish list for President Obama’s 2012 [...]
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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 [...]
The State of the Union
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged healthcare, iPad, Paycheck Fairness Act, President Obama, SOTU, State of the Union on January 28, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, a national leader stood before America and, in a presentation designed to generate both thought and excitement, proceeded to explain his plan for revitalizing America. But enough about Steve Jobs and the iPad. The other big speech of the day was, of course, President Obama’s State of the Union address. Coming just days after [...]
AAUW Responds to the President’s State of the Union Address
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, education, Equal Pay, Lisa Maatz, pay equity, SOTU, State of the Union on January 28, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Lisa Maatz, AAUW director of public policy and government relations, responds to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.
Are Women to Blame for Girls’ Math Anxiety?
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW research, Educate to Innovate initiative, GEMS, girls in math, girls in science, girls in tech, Intel Science Talent Search Award, International Science and Engineering Fair, let's read math, Li Boynton, National Girls Collaborative Project, National Lab Day, NCWIT's Gotta Have IT, NGCP, SOTU, State of the Union, Techbridge's Tool Kit for Role Models, women in engineering, women in math, women in science, women in tech on January 27, 2010, | 3 Comments »
Sitting next to the first lady at the State of the Union address tonight will be a model student in the sciences and engineering. Li Boynton is a semifinalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search Award, and the White House is hoping “other students will look at what she has done and will be [...]
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