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Meet Suzette Malveaux: Civil Rights Lawyer
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...
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Women’s Equality Day 2011: The Start of Something Big
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...
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Getting Uncomfortable for Equity’s Sake
I’m thrilled that AAUW hosted a Re: Action debate at our Washington, D.C., headquarters about SlutWalk D.C. and that this debate has prompted comment in mainstream media such as the Washington Post....
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Meet Gwendolyn Pough: Author and Black Feminist Theorist
2003–04 AAUW American Fellow Gwendolyn Pough was drawn to black feminist thought when one of her professors gave her a copy of bell hooks’ Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. While working...
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AAUW Celebrates Women’s Hall of Fame Inductees
“No botox, no detox. My name is Loretta Ford, and I approve this message.” So ended the speech of 91-year-old Ford as she accepted her induction into the National Women’s Hall of Fame along with 10...
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NCCWSL 2012: Young Women Finding Our Voices
This year’s National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL), which sold out with nearly 600 attendees, is the most popular event in the conference’s history. There were hardly any empty...
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Lilly Ledbetter: Bridging Culture Gaps for Equal Pay
Feminism has always been criticized as being preoccupied with advancing the interests of white, educated, middle-class women. While most women’s groups now take action on everything from racism to...
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Grace and Grit: Lilly Ledbetter at St. Cloud State
On October 9, I had the honor of hearing Lilly Ledbetter speak on my campus, St. Cloud State University. Ledbetter’s story is an inspiring one. After 19 years of working at Goodyear Tire and Rubber in...
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The Other F-Word
My friends and I have a lot in common, but there is one word that often leads to abrupt disagreements: the f-word. No matter when I say it or to whom, the frequent response is a shudder of the...
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Holiday Gift Guide for Girls
Dress-up wedding collections for your little “bride-to-be.” Pretty LEGOs to help her build beauty shops. Dolls skinnier than Barbie and sexier than Bratz. Pink vacuum cleaners and cleaning trolleys,...
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