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Despite a killer cold that hit me during our plane trip to Atlanta, I would not have missed “Difficult Dialogues,” the National Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference last week.
I could say so much about all the wonderful speakers and programs we heard — starting with keynoter Angela Y. Davis Thursday night and ending with a [...]

Women’s studies blogs are eye-openers

If you are looking for an eye-opening women’s studies blog, you’ve already found one.
A Blog of Our Own, the blog for the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Akron, has been named one of “Fifty Eye-Opening Women’s Studies Blogs” by Online Degree Programs.org. It’s listed in the “Academic Blogs” category.
In January, A Blog of [...]

Women vets need R&R on campus too

Women go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. And they return with wounds. Their wounds can be physical, mental or emotional. Sometimes they can be all three.
The University of Akron has nearly 500 female and male veterans on campus, and a new space has been created to provide a bit of R & R for them. Called the Student-Veterans Rest [...]

MAMAs and kids meet for pizza Oct. 3

MAMA (Mothers Achieving More Academically) will host an event for mothers to come out and socialize with other mothers here on the University of Akron campus in Leigh Hall 306.
Feel free to bring your children. Hope to see you there!
Contact the Women’s Studies Program at 330-972-7008 for more information.

Student moms have a voice online

Moms who are also students can share stories, tips and resources through a new blog set up by members of the new University of Akron student organization Mothers Achieving More Academically (MAMA).
You can read more about the group in the Sept. 3 issue of the Buchtelite, the University of Akron’s student newspaper.
For more information about MAMA, contact [...]

Student moms can join MAMA

Are you a student who is also a mother? Consider joining the new student organization on campus designed to serve your needs.
It’s called Mothers Achieving More Academically or MAMA for short. You can read more about it in the Sept. 3 issue of the Buchtelite, the University of Akron’s student newspaper.
For more information, contact Patricia [...]

Parents, science and girls

Science: It’s a Girl Thing! is using the power of social media to connect with parents and educators about how to foster girls’ interest in science and technology, and why that is important.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the program offers Web-based and easy-to-use resources for conducting science activities at home. It builds on everyday [...]

Why don’t more women bike?

In 1896, Susan B. Anthony said she thought bicycling did more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. Now bloggers have taken up her cry.
It seems an effort to get more women biking — and thus narrow the gender biking gap — is heating up the blogosphere. Discussion centers on everything from gender-based biking statistics to [...]

Get smart: Get trained to help women negotiate salary

As a women’s studies instructor, one thing that has surprised me is that young women don’t know how to negotiate salary when they are offered a job.  In fact, the idea of negotiating either doesn’t occur to them or it scares them to death.
That’s why I’m going to $tart $mart Training on Saturday afternoon at [...]

This week’s news from Women’s Media Center

Where Are The Women In Tech And Social Media?
 8/11/09
Fast Company: When you look around the room at a tech or social media conference what do you see? Are the panels filled with a diverse group of tech and social media experts? Chances are they are probably filled with white men…Women make up approximately 50% [...]