It was an enriching, busy, and hectic time for AAUW staff and volunteers at the 55th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, but our U.N. representative Carolyn Donovan kept us all on track. We started off with a remarkable panel hosted by the Girl Scouts entitled Girls Voices: A Global View of Science, Technology, [...]
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Why Do We Need Women in STEM Fields?
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged competitiveness, creativity, design, engineering, innovation, mathematics, science, technology on February 28, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Each month this year, AAUW teams up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, in an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. This is a question [...]
Bark Loudly at the Lion — U.N. Women Has Your Back
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Afsana, Bachelet, Bangladesh, Canright, Chile, Congo, engineering, Erez, Fiji, Intel, math, NASA, NGO, Nigeria, Nwadinobi, Project Girl Performance Collective, science, Status of Women, STEM, Tabualevu, technology, U.N., U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, U.N. Women, UN, Will.i.am on February 23, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
For many in the nongovernmental-organization community, the 55th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women began when more than 250 women of all ages from around the world gathered on Monday for NGO Consultation Day, an opportunity to set the stage for two weeks of workshops, panels, discussions, and interactions that will inform the final [...]
Why Even Fewer?
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged engineering, family, human potential, international, science, technology on October 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This is the third of several dispatches from AAUW Chief of Strategic Advancement, Jill Birdwhistell, written during her recently concluded trip to Paris for a UNESCO conference on behalf of AAUW. Why would it be difficult to give fully qualified CentralAfrican women scientists full-ride support for doctoral and post-doc studies in Sweden? Why would promising [...]
Meet Abbie Griffin: Marketing Professor
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Abbie Griffin, American Fellowship, David Eccles School of Business, Following the Fellows, Harvard University, marketing, MIT, technology, University of Utah, women in science on January 15, 2010, | 2 Comments »
Three words that students might use to describe the award-winning marketing professor Abbie Griffin are demanding, professional, and fun. Although this 1988–89 American Fellow has high expectations for her students, she brings the creativity inherent in the development of new marketing strategiess into the classroom. As a former plant engineer and senior marketing analyst, Abbie [...]
AAUW Awards 12 New Campus Action Project Grants
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged campus action project, Campus Action Projects, engineering, grants, math, technology, women in science on December 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the generous support of the Mary Ann Ahrens–Iowa Giving Circle, AAUW is funding a record 12 Campus Action Project (CAP) teams in the 2009–10 academic year. CAP grants provide up to $5,000 in funding for each of the 12 teams CAP teams, which are made up of students and faculty at colleges and [...]
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