Don’t let feminism scare you: Come to our Halloween Party

Join Women’s Studies students, faculty and friends for a fun evening of food, fun, games, prizes and treats — but no tricks.
Who: Women’s Studies Program and the student feminist organization L.I.P. Service at The University of Akron
What: Is having a Halloween Party
When: Friday, Oct. 24, 4-8 p.m.
Where: Schrank Hall North, Room 58. To locate Schrank Hall [...]

Watch video of panel on women

If you missed the Oct. 15 on-campus panel “Securing the Voice of Women in a Civil Society,” click here to watch the video.
Speakers included Gail Garbrandt, Lee Gill, Bill Lyons, & Patricia Millhoff, director of the UA Women’s Studies Program. The University of Akron Institute for Teaching and Learning sponsored the event.
Get more details here by downloading the program flier [...]

How Ohio legislators voted on issues women care about

Kudos to Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who has voted to support 100 percent of the American Association of University Women’s priorities during the 110th Congress. To send him an e-mail of thanks, click here.
To encourage Sen. George Voinovich to better represent his constituents, click here. Voinovich only supported 40 percent of AAUW’s priorities this year.
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Searching for Ms. Josephine: women and the vote

The Women’s Media Center has a complaint and a question regarding this year’s presidential campaign: “Enough about Joe the Plumber and Joe Six-Pack. Let’s talk about Josephine, the single mother of three with no health insurance or paid sick leave who makes less than the Joe working next to her. What about her stakes in [...]

Two UA women get the view from China

University of Akron Provost Elizabeth Stroble and the other members of a UA delegation have returned after nine days in China.
Members met with China’s Ministry of Education about its award of a Confucius Institute to UA, the third university in Ohio to win the award. With it comes a $100,000 grant, two fully funded instructors in Chinese and a [...]

More girls and boys participate in sports since Title IX

While the debate on Title IX and its affect on athletic participation for both sexes is not likely to end soon, a new study released by the Women’s Sports Foundation offers new evidence on the topic, according to news from the American Association of University Women.
The research report, Who’s Playing College Sports?: Money, Race and Gender, [...]

Why women aren’t flocking to Palin

When I read that women are not flocking to the McCain-Palin ticket, I was not surprised. I had read the news stories, the blogs, the forwarded e-mails, and the Web sites that dish the dirt on McCain’s dame — and I knew there were plenty of other women reading them too.
We know Palin was picked to attract [...]