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Santa Fe, April 17 from 11:30 to 1:00 at the Drury Plaza Hotel with a luncheon ($40)
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Albuquerque, April 20 from 11:30 to 1:00 at the UNM Continuing Education Bldg. with a box lunch ($15)
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Las Cruces, May 1 from 7:30 to 9:00 am at the County Building with continental breakfast ($15)
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Last year, we invited you to join AAUW in using gender equality to guide your bracket selections; and this year, we are at it again! It is disheartening that women coaches are still so significantly underpaid compared with their male counterparts. Plus, all the coaches for men’s sports teams are still paid more — often significantly more — on average than coaches for women’s sports.
Betting on schools with smaller gender pay gaps is also a great way to promote one of the NCAA’s stated values: a commitment to an inclusive culture that fosters equitable participation for student athletes and career opportunities for coaches and administrators from diverse backgrounds.
AAUW’s salary showdown brackets predict the victors of the women’s and men’s championships by calculating the gap between the average head coach salary for women’s and men’s teams at each school in the tournament and then advancing the school with the smaller gender pay gap to the next round.
According to our brackets, we are once again sporting red and blue in honor of the University of Dayton. In both the women’s and men’s brackets, the University of Dayton comes out victorious. At Dayton, the salaries women’s sports head coaches earn are, on average, 93 percent of what men’s sports head coaches earn.
If our brackets play out, Dayton, an 11 seed in the men’s bracket and a 7 seed in the women’s bracket, would achieve the feat of securing the men’s and women’s championships concurrently. Though Dayton is the only school to be in the final four for both of our salary showdown brackets, by our count 22 teams — out of the men’s 68 total and the women’s 64 total — are in both brackets.
Men’s bracket breakdown: Our analysis predicts a lot of upsets. If our brackets played out, all the men’s number 1 and number 2 seeds, all but Notre Dame of the number 3 seeds, and all the number 4 seeds would lose their first games. Joining Dayton in the final four are Davidson (73 percent pay gap), Hampton (68 percent pay gap), and Harvard (63 percent pay gap).
March 30, 2015
Time: 2–6 p.m. EST
Location: Your computer (Register at aauw.org)
Registration Deadline: March 18, 2015
Join AAUW’s Virtual Graduate School Fair, hosted by StudentPerch.
The virtual fair connects candidates with a broad range of graduate programs, such as public policy, business, and the science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
Take advantage of this convenient way to discuss opportunities without ever leaving your desk!
Participants will have access to the following:
•Private one-on-one chat capability
•Student attendee profiles (including résumé and LinkedIn profile)
•Exhibitors’ branded virtual booths
•Graduate program names on pre-event welcome page
Cost:
•FREE for students
•Exhibitor prices will vary. AAUW college/university partner members will receive a discounted rate.
The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing
March 26, 2015
Time: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m Pacific/2–3:30 p.m. Eastern
Location: Online (You just need to register.)
Cost: Free
Event Description:
From the research team who brought you Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics comes a deeper dive into engineering and computing, fields that offer 80 percent of STEM jobs but still boast dismal numbers of women students and workers.
Watch the launch event for Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing live from the new Samsung headquarters in Silicon Valley to find out why women aren’t in these fields — and what we as employers, educators, and parents can do about it.
A panel of experts from the industry and academia, moderated by leading gender-in-science researcher Londa Schiebinger, will discuss the report’s findings and what they mean for anyone who cares about tapping the innovative solutions that half our population offers.
Every year the president uses the State of the Union address to lay out an agenda to Congress and identify the administration’s priorities and proposals. And every year we tune in to hear what the president promises to do to move women’s issues forward. This year, the speech is set for January 20, and we ask you to help us follow along through a friendly (or not-so-friendly!) game of bingo.
We’ve created bingo cards with some of the key words women and girls want to hear from President Barack Obama this year. Simply print out a card, grab your favorite marker, and you’re ready to play.
But because you’re doing such important work to remind the president of our issues and our voices — and because it’s always more fun to play with friends — tweet your progress and a picture of your winning card with #AAUWSOTU. We’ll be watching and even awarding some prizes!
By the end of the night, we’ll not only have some bingo winners but also a sense of whether Obama’s 2015 agenda will help women and girls succeed. Good luck to us all!
“Women, Their Rights, and Nothing Less” How can you use AAUW’s free online learning module about the suffrage movement? Attend our webinar January 22, 2015
Time: 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m. ET
Location: Online (You just need to register.)
Cost: Free
or explore the module to learn how to implement this material into local high school and college and university partner classrooms.
The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived—those who, now in their eighties and nineties, will soon carry their memories to the grave—Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.
After 16 years of advocacy efforts, a bill that advances a National Women’s History Museum is finally headed to the president’s desk. Congress approved the legislation as a part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which cleared the House on December 4 and passed the Senate last week. The bill will establish a commission to study the creation of the museum in Washington, D.C. AAUW has been a long-time supporter of this bill and believes a museum to recognize women’s many historic accomplishments is long overdue.
By the time the 113th Senate adjourned on Tuesday night, it had confirmed 132 judicial nominations for federal district and circuit courts across the country. Despite periods of heightened obstruction of judicial nominees, this final total is the highest number of confirmations a single Congress has approved in more than 30 years.
Watch with us on PBS November 24, 2014 at 9 p.m.
This week from Makers: Words of inspiration from Dr. Mae Jemison, who became the first African-American woman to go into space aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. Hear her story and more on “MAKERS: Women in Space” Tuesday, October 14 at 8 p.m.
MAKERS: Women in War October 21. MAKERS: Women in Business, October 28. MAKERS: Women in Politics November 4.
