People exhibited the absolute worst and best aspects of human nature during the Holocaust: unfathomable brutality, unwavering bravery. Irena Sendler is one woman who displayed the latter. Born in 1910, Sendler was a 29-year-old Polish social worker when the Nazis invaded her country. She lived in Warsaw, and when Nazis forced Jews in the area [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Women’s History Month’
You’ve Heard of Schindler, but What about Sendler?
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, Holocaust, Human Rights, In the Name of Their Mothers, International Women's Day, Irena Sendler, Irena Sendler Project, IWD, Life in a Jar, National Women's History Month, Nobel Peace Prize, The Story of Irena Sendler, video, Women's History Month, Women's History Month video on March 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Don’t Miss Half the Sky Live
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW members, Blog for IWD, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, National Women's History Month, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet, Women's History Month on March 4, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]
Candace Wheeler, 1827-1923: Entrepreneur, Artist, and Founder of American Interior Design
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #wmnhist, Candace Wheeler, entrepreneur, interior design, Louis Comfort Tiffany, National Women's History Month, Society of Decorative Arts, Tiffany & Wheeler, Women's Building, Women's History Month on March 2, 2010, | 2 Comments »
When you set out to break through barriers, the secret to your success just might be that you don’t see the barriers in the first place. Candace Thurber Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Arts in New York in 1877 to help the thousands of women who were left indigent at the end of the [...]
Procrastination Station — Women’s History Month
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged March, National Women's History Project, NOW, profrastination, Program ideas, RAINN, Women's History Month on December 14, 2009, | 1 Comment »
On campus, the hustle and bustle of the holiday season is a welcome distraction from last-minute paper writing and studying for finals. In preparation for time spent with family and friends, we begin to examine not only how important those people are in our lives but also where we are currently in accomplishing our dreams. [...]
Honoring Women in the Military
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged Armed Forces, Army, STEM, Veteran, Women's History Month, workforce development on March 25, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I was privileged to participate in the Inaugural Army Women in Transition Symposium, held on Capitol Hill in the Rayburn House Office Building. I was asked to be a panelist on the “Workforce Development and the Transitioning Army Woman Soldier” panel. The other panels were “Role of Women in the Army and Its Evolution” [...]
Benazir Bhutto — Female Leader in Public Policy
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged Benazir Bhutto, Human Rights, Public Policy, women in politics, women leaders, Women's History Month, women's rights on March 23, 2009, | 1 Comment »
During women’s history month, it is important not only to reflect on women who are or have been leaders in American politics but also to commemorate the vast achievements of women leaders throughout the globe. I remember the day that Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, was assassinated in a brutal terrorist attack while [...]
“G” Is For Girl
Posted in Title IX, Women's History Month, tagged athletics, Billie Jean King, Danica Patrick, Gatorade, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Mia Hamm, Serena Williams, sports, What's G, women in sports, Women's History Month on March 20, 2009, | 1 Comment »
As a sports fanatic, it’s hard to talk about women in sports today and what the future holds. I have seen women athletes and women’s sports evolve, reinvent the norm, deal with financial harships, and even gain more of a fan base than their male versions (like in women’s tennis). Then I remembered the new [...]
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