Wait! Before you think you don’t want to hear about “that Twitter thing,” as someone told me recently, I ask you to pause and listen to a story of exploration that put true meaning behind real-time education. If you are already part of the Twitter adventure, stick around. I’ve listed some great folks that you [...]
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She’s Geeky, and So Am I
Posted in S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged DC 2009, facebook, National Girls Collaborative Project, Open Source, Second Life, She's Geeky, STEM, Twitter, unConference on November 17, 2009, | 8 Comments »
Last Friday, several colleagues and I participated in the She’s Geeky D.C. “unConference.” What is an unConference, you ask? It allows the attendees to determine the agenda and the presenters during a conference. Organizers Kaliya Hamlin and Heidi Nobantu Saul kicked off the event by asking each of us to finish the sentence, “I am [...]
Follow Me to Convention
Posted in 2009 AAUW Convention, tagged 2009 AAUW National Convention, blog, Convention, facebook, Twitter on June 22, 2009, | 2 Comments »
This Friday, June 26, begins AAUW’s biennial convention in St. Louis and marks my second time attending the event. As a Missouri native, I know that it can be scorching outside in St. Louis in the summer and fear the effects of the “humugity” on my hair. But I also know that the inside of [...]
Not the Only Game in Town
Posted in Title IX, Women and Work, tagged athletics, Candace Parker, gender stereotyping, Lisa Leslie, pregnancy discrimination, salary, sports, Title IX, Twitter, WNBA, women in sports on June 5, 2009, | 2 Comments »
The NBA finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Orlando Magic started last night, but the NBA isn’t the only game in town. Saturday, June 6, marks the WNBA’s 13th season opener between the Los Angeles Sparks and the champion Detroit Shock to be aired on network television. The most some people know about [...]
Skating Toward Wage Disparity
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged Behind the Pay Gap, Emily Hughes, fair pay, harvard, Olympics, pay equity, princeton, Twitter, Twittercast on April 27, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
What do medicine, anthropology, engineering, and chemistry have in common? These are a few of the majors the women on Princeton University’s ice skating team represent. I was up there this weekend to watch their final event of the season, cheering loudly and watching in awe as Emily Hughes did a guest performance. I was [...]
Forget Friending, Learn to Tweet and Twit
Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged tweet, Twitter on April 2, 2009, | 3 Comments »
After watching a video on Twitter sent by a friend, I couldn’t help but realize that although I pride myself on being someone that is always in the know about new social networking tools, I really don’t know anything about Twitter. A colleague assured me that, statistically speaking, people from my generation have not really [...]
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