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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At the U.N. Women Still Ask: Why So Few?
Posted in AAUW research, Educational Programs, Equity in the News, S T E M, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged BPW International, Commission on the Status of Women, engineering, Girl Scouts, math, National Girls Collaborative Project, science, technology, U.N. Women, Virginia Gildersleeve, Why So Few?, World ORT on March 4, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Sister, Can You Spare $100 Million for Women and Girls?
Posted in Equity in the News, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Commission on the Status of Women, U.N. Women, United Nations on February 10, 2011, | 2 Comments »
The Washington Post estimates that Arianna Huffington’s “rough cut” of the new AOL and Huffington Post merger is worth $100 million. What do you do with that kind of money? I don’t begrudge anyone capitalizing on her or his business savvy and harnessing technology in new and important ways.(OK, maybe I do, just a little.)But [...]
Haitian Women Are U.N. Women
Posted in Social Justice, tagged American Jewish World Service, American Red Cross, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, earthquake, Haiti, rebuilding, U.N. Women, UN Women, United Nations, Women and Girls on July 12, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This month welcomed the creation of a new United Nations agency for women, U.N. Women, dedicated to promoting women’s rights and involvement in development, peacemaking, politics, and economic activity. This new agency will assume the work of four currently existing entities tasked with women’s issues. The challenge to the U.N. and member states will be [...]
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