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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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’ [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Meet Esy Casey: Artist and Cinematographer

Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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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 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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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California’s Suffrage Centennial

Posted in Educational Programs, Sex Discrimination, Sexism, Social Justice, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 8, 2011, | 4 Comments »

In October, Berkeley, California, will see a blast from the past in the form of early 20th-century suffragists. In celebration of the centennial of women gaining the right to vote in California, a parade will march down the streets of Berkeley. This is just one of the many events the California Women Suffrage Committee and [...]

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Untold Injustice in India

Posted in Equity in the News, Social Justice, Women and Civil Rights, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 1, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

Last year, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, held its first gay pride festival, a seemingly significant move for equality. But last August, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community was reminded that their rights are still tenuous when Chennai police detained a 19-year-old lesbian woman named Kavitha after she moved in with her partner. Her parents [...]

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Happy Anniversary, Title IX

Posted in Sex Discrimination, Social Justice, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Title IX, Women and Civil Rights, tagged , , , , , , on June 23, 2010, | 2 Comments »

Title IX celebrates its 38th anniversary today, while, simultaneously, a court battle is being waged over whether or not the Quinnipiac University competitive cheerleading squad is considered a sport for Title IX purposes. As a former cheerleader myself, one whose squad collectively had one girl capable of more than a cartwheel, I would have to [...]

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NGO Global Women’s Forum Beijing +15, CSW 54, and Parallel Events

Posted in The AAUW Community, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 16, 2010, | Leave a Comment »

From February 27 through March 12, I attended the NGO Global Women’s Forum, Beijing + 15; the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women 54; and parallel events associated with the conference. The mission of the conference was to review implementation of the 1995 Beijing platform on women and girls.  More than a dozen [...]

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Celebrating Women’s Equality Day

Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged , , , , , , , on August 26, 2009, | 2 Comments »

Today, August 26, 2009, is Women’s Equality Day. This day marks the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 89 years ago and celebrates the women’s suffrage movement that led up to the amendment’s passage. AAUW and some of our branches are celebrating Women’s Equality Day by hosting fun activities to raise public [...]

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