Today is the 39th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, but it’s not a very happy birthday. Over the last year, we’ve seen unprecedented attempts to limit women’s control over their own bodies. States passed 83 laws restricting access to abortion, nearly four times as many as the 23 laws passed in 2010. Five [...]
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Another Year of “Roe” and Protecting Women’s Rights
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, My Vote: I Will Be Heard, reproductive rights, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, Washington D.C., women's rights on January 23, 2012, | 1 Comment »
Why Women Should Care about the President’s Jobs Speech
Posted in A Women's Nation, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, Barack Obama, congress, Debt Super Committee, employment, Equal Pay, jobs, news, Senate, wage gap, Washington D.C., women's rights on September 2, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Next Thursday, September 8, President Barack Obama will give what’s being touted as a major speech that will pressure the so-called debt “super committee” to focus on job creation and tackling the nation’s high unemployment rate, which stood at 9.1 percent in July 2011. While the speech is of interest to all Americans, it’s particularly [...]
Women’s Equality Day through a Brown Lens
Posted in A Women's Nation, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, tagged 19th Amendment, AAUW, Alice Paul, Bella Abzug, congress, Frederick Douglass, HERvotes, Mary Church Terrell, news, Senate, Shirley Chisholm, suffrage, the black vote, the brown vote, the women’s voting equality, U.S. Constitution, vote, Washington D.C., women's rights, Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2011, | 4 Comments »
Women’s Equality Day commemorates passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants all women the right to vote. Growing up in the D.C. metro area, I wasn’t interested in politics. But I do remember my great-grandmother, grandparents, and parents taking me with them to the polls. We stood in line, which seemed [...]
Women’s Equality Day 2011: The Start of Something Big
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, Equity in the News, Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Voter Education, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women's Health, tagged 19th Amendment, AAUW, education, Equal Pay, feminism, HERvotes, My Vote, My Vote: I Will Be Heard, pay equity, Paycheck Fairness Act, politics, reproductive rights, social security, Title IX, Washington D.C., women leaders, Women's Equality Day, women's rights on August 25, 2011, | 3 Comments »
On Friday, AAUW and other women’s rights groups across the country will observe Women’s Equality Day. Together, in a coalition called HERvotes, our movement will remind Congress and ordinary Americans that rights are not bestowed; they are seized by women willing to stand up and speak out. And when I use the word “seize,” I [...]
Meet Suzette Malveaux: Civil Rights Lawyer
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, Equity in the News, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, AAUW Selected Professions Fellowship, American Fellowship, Call Actions at the Crossroads: An Answer to Wal-Mart v. Dukes, Class Action and Other Multi-Party Litigation, Dukes, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, feminism, Following the Fellows, Harvard University, media, New York University, NYU, politics, Supreme Court, Wal-Mart, Wal-mart v. Dukes, Washington D.C., women's rights on August 24, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
It’s been two months since the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Wal-Mart v. Dukes case prevented the women of Wal-Mart from taking on the nation’s largest employer as a nationwide, class-action group. But gender discrimination doesn’t take a day off, and neither does AAUW. AAUW continues to stand behind the women of Wal-Mart because [...]
Your AAUW Dialog Summer Reading List
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Equity in the News, S T E M, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, Supreme Court, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, tagged AAUW, congress, education, Equal Pay, equal pay day, feminism, leadership, Legal Advocacy Fund, politics, Senate, sexual assault, STEM, Supreme Court, Washington D.C., women leaders, women's rights on August 20, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Summer is drawing to a close, so the AAUW blog has decided to take some time to just sit back, relax, and have a long weekend. In our absence, why not check out one of our most popular recent posts or the top posts from the past year that you might have missed? Enjoy! Dancin’ [...]
Why I Participated in SlutWalk D.C.
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, tagged AAUW, feminism, media, news, politics, sexual assault, SlutWalk, SlutWalk D.C., The Illness That Healed Me, Washington D.C., women leaders, women's rights on August 17, 2011, | 11 Comments »
I’ve never been called a slut, but last Saturday, I claimed the name when I participated in SlutWalk D.C. SlutWalks started in Toronto in April in response to a police officer who said women wouldn’t be victimized if they didn’t dress like sluts. The first walk in Toronto touched a nerve, and people around the [...]
Meet Esy Casey: Artist and Cinematographer
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, AIDS, career development grantee, Career Development Grants, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, Haskell Wexler Award, Hunter College, Jeepney, Los Angeles Film Festival, Manila, Philippines, politics, South Africa, Thing wiht No Name, women's rights, Woodstock Film Festival, Zulu on August 10, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Artist and 2009–10 AAUW Career Development Grantee Esy Casey was working in book design when her best friend, Sarah Friedland, asked her to help film a documentary on Zulu women’s experiences with HIV and AIDS. Though she had never worked a camera in a documentary context, Casey quit her job and began taking intensive classes [...]
Education Hurts Your Ovaries?!
Posted in A Women's Nation, AAUW in the News, AAUW research, Educational Programs, S T E M, Sexism, Sexual Harassment, Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Boston Globe, education, gender bias, Google Science Fair, Health Statistics of Women College Graduates, NPR, politics, Sally Ride, sexual assault, STEM, student debt, Why So Few?, women's rights on August 10, 2011, | 1 Comment »
There was a time in this nation when people believed that if women went to college, it would adversely affect their ability to have children. As silly as that notion seems now, it’s worth remembering that this was once a normal fear about women and education. Although that belief is no longer widespread in our [...]
For Men Only
Posted in A Women's Nation, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, tagged AAUW, Clara Barton, Clara Barton National Historic Site, feminism, For Men Only, Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardnes, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Marjorie Merriweather Post, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National HIstoric Site, National Museum of Women in the Arts, National Women's History Museum, Paycheck Fairness Act, politics, Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, Washington D.C., Women in CIA, women's rights on August 5, 2011, | 4 Comments »
I remember being totally into spy stories as a kid. I had grand visions of breaking codes, sneaking into enemy territory, and saving the world. I did look into it during college but was told it was virtually impossible for a woman (as later described by Nora Slatkin, former executive director of the CIA, in [...]
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