My first internship was not very glamorous. At the volunteer-run Planned Parenthood Los Angeles, I did countless hours of data entry. My main job, which I spent about 60 hours doing, was entering volunteers’ information into a new computer program. Transferring the information from hundreds of paper documents to the online system was tedious, time-consuming, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘$tart $mart’
Every Task Matters, Even the Boring Ones
Posted in Student Advisory Council, The AAUW Community, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW, Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School, Planned Parenthood, SAC, Student Advisory Council on January 27, 2012, | 1 Comment »
$tart $mart at UNC Wilmington
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW, Campus Outreach Grant, education, Elect Her, Equal Pay, leadership, Universit y of North Carolina, WAGE Project, Wilmington, Women's Studies and Resource Center on December 20, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
“We had no idea.” “How can this happen?” “I had never even thought about a pay gap before.” These were comments made by attendees of a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop held in October at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. The three-hour workshop, co-sponsored by AAUW and the WAGE Project and hosted by UNCW’s [...]
Alabama Branch Sponsors $tart $mart Workshop
Posted in Educational Programs, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, Campus Outreach Grant, gender gap, Legal Advocacy Fund, lifetime earnings, salary negotiation, The WAGE project, University of Alabama, University of Alabama Huntsville on December 16, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Research shows that the typical American woman misses out on $1 million in earnings over her lifetime because she lacks salary negotiation skills. The $tart $mart workshops address the gender gap in U.S. wages as well as skills and tactics for negotiating salaries. The program is the result of a partnership between AAUW and the [...]
Amanda’s Experience of $tarting $mart
Posted in Sex Discrimination, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW, pay equity, pay gap, Start Smart, University of Texas on November 4, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Attending a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop at the University of Texas, Tyler, gave recent college graduate Amanda the knowledge and skills she needed to prevent herself from losing more than $250,000 over the course of her working life, the average amount women lose because of the gender wage gap. During her junior and senior [...]
First $tart $mart Workshop Held in Oregon
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW Leadership Corps, AAUW of Oregon, Campus Outreach Grant, Chemeketa Community College, LAF, Legal Advocacy Fund, negotiation, Oregon University, salary negotiation, willamette university on May 31, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Eighteen senior women students from Chemeketa Community College, Western Oregon University, and Willamette University participated in a $tart $mart salary negotiation workshop on April 29, 2011. This was the first one to be held in the state of Oregon. The three-hour workshop began with information about the wage gap and its consequences, such as the [...]
New York Women Learn Salary Negotiation
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, tagged $tart $mart, AAUW branches, AAUW members, gender wage gap, pay equity on April 21, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Last month, 33 Westchester Community College women participated in two $tart $mart workshops to learn concrete, pragmatic pay negotiation skills to help them avoid the still-prevalent gender pay gap. Women currently earn only 77 cents, on average, for every dollar that men earn. That translates to a lifetime pay gap of $1 million for college [...]
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