June 1, 1993 - Connie Chung becomes the second woman to co-anchor the evening news, 17 years after Barbara Walters became the first in 1976
June 9, 1949 - Georgia Neese Clark confirmed as the first woman treasurer of the United States
June 10, 1963 - Equal Pay Act enacted: "To prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce." (PL 88-38)
June 11, 1913 - Women in Illinois celebrate passage of a state woman suffrage bill allowing women to vote in presidential elections
June 17, 1873 - Susan B. Anthony's trial started for illegally voting in Rochester , New York on November 5, 1872
June 18, 1983 - Dr. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space
June 20, 1921 - Alice Robertson ((R-Oklahoma) becomes the first woman to chair the House of Representatives
June 23, 1972 - Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, President Nixon signs one of the most important legislation initiatives passed for women and girls since women won the vote in 1920. This legislation guarantees equal access and equal opportunity for females and males in almost all aspects of our educational systems.
June 25, 1903 - Madame Marie Curie announces her discovery of radium
June Birthdays
June 3, 1906 (1975) - Josephine Baker, dancer and jazz singer; fought racism
June 7, 1917 (2000) - Gwendolyn Brooks, poet; first African American to win a
Pulitzer Prize
June 11, 1880 (1973) - Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress; pacifist and suffragist
June 14, 1811 (1896) - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
June 14, 1952 - Pat Summit, coach of Tennessee 's Women's Basketball team. She scored the most wins in NCAA history - 900 victories in 32 years
June 16, 1902 (1992) - Barbara McClintock, biologist, Nobel Prize Winner in 1983
June 17, 1865 (1915) - Susan La Flesche Picotte, first Native American physician
June 18, 1913 (1991) - Sylvia Porter, finance columnist and author
June 21, 1912 (1989) - Mary McCarthy, author and critic June 22, 1906 (1993) - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, aviator, poet and author
June 22, 1909 (2006) - Katherine Dunham, dancer and choreographer; combined African movement and classical ballet
June 23, 1940 (1994) - Wilma Rudolph, athlete; first woman runner to win 3 gold medals in a single Olympics
June 26, 1902 (1989) - Antonia Brico, conductor, pianist; first women to conduct a world-class symphony orchestra in 1938
June 26, 1911 or 1914 (1956) - Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, athlete; outstanding in basketball, track, swimming, golf, and billiards
June 27, 1880 (1968) - Helen Keller, advocate for the disabled; writer and lecturer
June 30, 1883 (1970) - Dorothy Tilly, civil rights reformer; investigated and protested lynching in Georgia
June 30, 1917 (2010) - Lena Horne, first African American woman to sign long-term Hollywood contract; fought for contracts guaranteeing African Americans could attend her shows
5.23.2011
Women's History Month Student Showcase 2011
The Center for Women and Gender is celebrating Women’s History Month 2011 with the national theme “Our History is Our Strength” by showcasing the academic works of USU students. Works were submitted by and/or about women, centering on the Women's History Month theme.
See USU press release http://m.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=49003.
Works were shown and winners announced at the celebration on April 5 in the USU Merrill-Cazier Library.
Submissions were judged by area experts from USU. The People's Choice Award was chosen by the USU community. Winners received a cash prize (winner's names are highlighted in green). Thanks to all the participants and congrats to our winners!
Category 1: Research: Science, Technology, Engineering and MathSee USU press release http://m.usu.edu/ust/index.cfm?article=49003.
Works were shown and winners announced at the celebration on April 5 in the USU Merrill-Cazier Library.
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| Contest participants Cheneil Leavitt (2nd from left) and Rachel Bustamonte (far left) enjoy refreshments at the Showcase. |
Winner: An Empirical Study of Student Programming Bugs by Nare Hayrapetyan
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| Nare Hayrapetyan, won with her entry of a research project on women students in computer majors. |
Category 2: Research: Social Sciences, Education, and Business
Winner: Spirituality of the Feminine by Rachael Steineckert |
| Rachel Steineckert accepts her prize for first place in the social science research category. |
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| Winners of the visual arts category accept their award for their entry of a female-ergonomic women's health center. |
Winner: Women's Health Clinic Design by Casssandra Carter, Danielle Domichel, Laura Tafoya
People's Choice Award: Pink Laundry by Heidi Bruner
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| Photographer Heidi Bruner, who won People's Choice Award, with her piece, "Pink Laundry." |
Category 6: Written Works
Winner: Tough Girls by Cheneil Leavitt
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| Cheneil Leavitt won first place in the written works category with her moving non-fiction story, "Tough Girls." |
Category 7: Performing Arts
Listen (above) to performing arts winner Rebecca Tanner play her song, "Strength in History."
5.15.2011
Syria women protesters are targeted in crackdown
Syria in crackdown on women The Australian - May 16, 2011
WOMEN protesters are being targeted as President Bashar al-Assad launches a fresh crackdown on Syria's anti-government demonstrators.
A female human rights activist was detained as thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across the country for a "Friday of Free Women" protest in solidarity with those killed or imprisoned in the eight-week uprising.
Up to 850 demonstrators have died since the protests began, the UN said.
Four women were shot dead last week when troops opened fire on protesters in the village of Merqeb near the coastal city of Banias. Dozens of female activists have been arrested.
Human rights activist Catherine al-Talli, 32, was detained by police in the Barzeh district of Damascus at 6pm on Friday.
She was forced off a minibus when it was stopped at a checkpoint by the secret police, who took her away.
"We have no idea where she is," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. "The targeting of women is a new thing. It has angered Syrian society."
Video footage showing the bodies of female protesters killed in Banias has been posted on YouTube.
Six demonstrators were shot dead on Friday, despite an order from the President not to fire on protesters.
At least three more demonstrators were killed yesterday in the border town of Tall Kalakh.
"The security forces, who had been encircling Tall Kalakh since the morning, fired machine guns," a witness said.
A hospital source across the border in Lebanon said a man named Ali Basha, who was admitted to a Lebanese hospital after fleeing Syria with gunshot wounds, had died of his injuries.
More than 500 people, mostly women and children, fled across the border, town councillor Mahmud Khazaal said.
Razan Zeitouneh, 34, a female human rights activist, is wanted by the authorities. She went into hiding in March after she was accused on state television of being a foreign agent.
She had passed on information about conditions in the besieged southern town of Daraa to the foreign press.
Police last week arrested her husband, Wa'el Hammada, who is also an activist.
Two weeks earlier, intelligence officers raided their home, hoping to arrest him. Mr Hammada was not there so they arrested his 20-year-old brother. Neither man has been heard of since.
Ms Zeitouneh said it was too painful for her to think of how her husband was being treated.
"I'm trying not to think about that. Dozens of my friends have been arrested. We all share this great pain," she said.
She dismissed the government's plans for national dialogue as meaningless. "It is a lie," she said. "They have opened a dialogue with individuals who represent only themselves."
She has gone underground but continues to publicise human rights abuses online.
WOMEN protesters are being targeted as President Bashar al-Assad launches a fresh crackdown on Syria's anti-government demonstrators.
A female human rights activist was detained as thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across the country for a "Friday of Free Women" protest in solidarity with those killed or imprisoned in the eight-week uprising.
Up to 850 demonstrators have died since the protests began, the UN said.
Four women were shot dead last week when troops opened fire on protesters in the village of Merqeb near the coastal city of Banias. Dozens of female activists have been arrested.
Human rights activist Catherine al-Talli, 32, was detained by police in the Barzeh district of Damascus at 6pm on Friday.
She was forced off a minibus when it was stopped at a checkpoint by the secret police, who took her away.
"We have no idea where she is," said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights. "The targeting of women is a new thing. It has angered Syrian society."
Video footage showing the bodies of female protesters killed in Banias has been posted on YouTube.
Six demonstrators were shot dead on Friday, despite an order from the President not to fire on protesters.
At least three more demonstrators were killed yesterday in the border town of Tall Kalakh.
"The security forces, who had been encircling Tall Kalakh since the morning, fired machine guns," a witness said.
A hospital source across the border in Lebanon said a man named Ali Basha, who was admitted to a Lebanese hospital after fleeing Syria with gunshot wounds, had died of his injuries.
More than 500 people, mostly women and children, fled across the border, town councillor Mahmud Khazaal said.
Razan Zeitouneh, 34, a female human rights activist, is wanted by the authorities. She went into hiding in March after she was accused on state television of being a foreign agent.
She had passed on information about conditions in the besieged southern town of Daraa to the foreign press.
Police last week arrested her husband, Wa'el Hammada, who is also an activist.
Two weeks earlier, intelligence officers raided their home, hoping to arrest him. Mr Hammada was not there so they arrested his 20-year-old brother. Neither man has been heard of since.
Ms Zeitouneh said it was too painful for her to think of how her husband was being treated.
"I'm trying not to think about that. Dozens of my friends have been arrested. We all share this great pain," she said.
She dismissed the government's plans for national dialogue as meaningless. "It is a lie," she said. "They have opened a dialogue with individuals who represent only themselves."
She has gone underground but continues to publicise human rights abuses online.
The Name Change Dilemma
The Name Change Dilemma by Sue Shellenbarger
Friday, May 13, 2011 - Wall Street Journal
More women are taking their new husbands' names after marriage, research shows. But the decision continues to spark debate and confusion.
The trend toward women keeping their maiden names after marriage peaked in the 1990s, when about 23% of women did so, then eased gradually to about 18% in the 2000s, says a 35-year-study published in 2009 in the journal Social Behavior and Personality. And increasingly, studies show women's decisions on the issue are guided by factors other than political or religious ideas about women's rights or marital roles, as often believed.
Well-educated women in high-earning occupations are significantly more likely to keep their maiden names, the study shows. Brides in professional fields such as medicine, the arts or entertainment are the most likely of all to do so. Age makes a big difference too, according to a 2010 study in a scholarly journal entitled "Names: A Journal of Onomastics." Women who married when they were 35 to 39 years old were 6.4 times more likely to keep their names than women who married between the ages of 20 and 24.
In fact, the idea that women who keep their maiden names are better breadwinners is becoming a stereotype that some people use as a basis for judging women's ability. In a Dutch study published last year in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology, researchers had 90 students compare hypothetical women they had met at a party based on whether they took their husband's names. Those who did were judged as more caring, dependent and emotional, while those who kept their names were seen as smarter and more ambitious.
Researchers also asked 50 students to screen e-mails containing hypothetical job applications from women. The candidates who had kept their maiden names were more likely to be hired and were offered salaries averaging 40% higher than their name-changing peers. (Among limitations of the study, the sample was made up of students who probably lacked much job experience or other criteria upon which to base their judgments.)
Either way, picking a last name can be fraught with complications. Some women lie awake nights before their weddings trying to decide what to do. For women who change their minds later, some vendors even offer "name change kits." Still, changing your name mid-career, as some of my colleagues have done, can lead to confusion among co-workers, clients or in my profession, readers and sources.
Splitting the difference by keeping both names, as many women do, "is a recipe for confusion," one woman writes in an email. She kept her maiden name professionally but uses her married name sometimes outside work. Now, "I never know how to introduce myself," she says. Her driver's license bears one name and her voter registration the other, and she receives summonses for jury duty in both names.
My Juggle colleague Rachel also uses two different names -- her maiden name professionally and her married name personally and officially -- which can lead to lots of mixups, she says. "Readers and colleagues know me by one name and the HR department, friends and the IRS know me by another," she tells me. "I didn't want to give up my byline, which I've had for many years. But changing my name was important to my husband for a lot of reasons, and ultimately we wanted our family members to all have the same name."
Friday, May 13, 2011 - Wall Street Journal
More women are taking their new husbands' names after marriage, research shows. But the decision continues to spark debate and confusion.
The trend toward women keeping their maiden names after marriage peaked in the 1990s, when about 23% of women did so, then eased gradually to about 18% in the 2000s, says a 35-year-study published in 2009 in the journal Social Behavior and Personality. And increasingly, studies show women's decisions on the issue are guided by factors other than political or religious ideas about women's rights or marital roles, as often believed.
Well-educated women in high-earning occupations are significantly more likely to keep their maiden names, the study shows. Brides in professional fields such as medicine, the arts or entertainment are the most likely of all to do so. Age makes a big difference too, according to a 2010 study in a scholarly journal entitled "Names: A Journal of Onomastics." Women who married when they were 35 to 39 years old were 6.4 times more likely to keep their names than women who married between the ages of 20 and 24.
In fact, the idea that women who keep their maiden names are better breadwinners is becoming a stereotype that some people use as a basis for judging women's ability. In a Dutch study published last year in the journal Basic and Applied Social Psychology, researchers had 90 students compare hypothetical women they had met at a party based on whether they took their husband's names. Those who did were judged as more caring, dependent and emotional, while those who kept their names were seen as smarter and more ambitious.Researchers also asked 50 students to screen e-mails containing hypothetical job applications from women. The candidates who had kept their maiden names were more likely to be hired and were offered salaries averaging 40% higher than their name-changing peers. (Among limitations of the study, the sample was made up of students who probably lacked much job experience or other criteria upon which to base their judgments.)
Either way, picking a last name can be fraught with complications. Some women lie awake nights before their weddings trying to decide what to do. For women who change their minds later, some vendors even offer "name change kits." Still, changing your name mid-career, as some of my colleagues have done, can lead to confusion among co-workers, clients or in my profession, readers and sources.
Splitting the difference by keeping both names, as many women do, "is a recipe for confusion," one woman writes in an email. She kept her maiden name professionally but uses her married name sometimes outside work. Now, "I never know how to introduce myself," she says. Her driver's license bears one name and her voter registration the other, and she receives summonses for jury duty in both names.
My Juggle colleague Rachel also uses two different names -- her maiden name professionally and her married name personally and officially -- which can lead to lots of mixups, she says. "Readers and colleagues know me by one name and the HR department, friends and the IRS know me by another," she tells me. "I didn't want to give up my byline, which I've had for many years. But changing my name was important to my husband for a lot of reasons, and ultimately we wanted our family members to all have the same name."
5.10.2011
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Began as a focal week in 1977, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month became a month-long celebration in 1980. May was chosen as the focal month because it commemorates the immigration of the first Japanese immigrants to the United States in 1843. This focal celebration provides an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the contributions of Asian and Pacific Islander American women in schools, communities, and workplaces throughout the country.
May Highlights in US Women's History
May 1, 1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first African-American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; named Library of Congress's Consultant in Poetry (later called Poet Laureate) in 1985.
May 5, 1938 - Dr. Dorothy H. Andersen presents results of her medical research identifying the disease cystic fibrosis at a meeting of the American Pediatric Association.
May 8, 1914 - President Woodrow Wilson signs a Proclamation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.
May 10, 1872 - Victoria Woodhull is nominated as the first woman candidate for U.S. president for the Equal Rights Party.
May 12, 1968 - A 12-block Mother's Day march of "welfare mothers" is held in Washington, D.C., D.C., led by Coretta Scott King accompanied by Ethel Kennedy.
May 21, 1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to complete a solo. transatlantic flight. She flew from Newfoundland to Ireland, a 2,026-mile trip, in just under 15 hours.
May 21, 1973 - Lynn Genesko, a swimmer, receives the first athletic scholarship awarded to a woman (University of Miami of Miami).
May 29, 1977 - Janet Guthrie becomes the first woman to qualify for and complete the Indy 500 car race.
May Birthdays
May 1, 1830 (1930) - Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, labor leader and organizer
May 3, 1898 (1987) - Septima Clark, educator; Civil Rights activist; called "Grandmother of Civil Rights Movement"
May 3, 1912 (1995) - May Sarton, prolific writer and poet, professor
May 5, 1864 (1922) - Elizabeth Seaman, pen name "Nelly Bly", journalist; wrote expose of mental asylum (1887); set a record for circling the world in 72 days (1890)
May 11, 1875 (1912) - Harriet Quimby, first American woman licensed air pilot (1911), first woman to fly across the English Channel (1912)
May 11, 1894 (1991) - Martha Graham, modern dance innovator and choreographer
May 11, 1906 (1975) - Lt. Ethel Weed, military officer in the Women's Army Corp.; promoted women's rights and suffrage in Japan
May 15, 1937 - Madeline Albright, first woman to be U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001)
May 19, 1930 (1965) - Lorraine Hansberry, first African American woman to produce a play on Broadway, "A Raisin in the Sun" (1959)
May 23, 1810 (1850) - Margaret Fuller, author, editor, journalist, literary critic, educator, Transcendentalist, and women's rights advocate
May 26, 1951 - Sally Ride, astrophysicist, first American woman astronaut
May 27, 1907 (1964) - Rachel Carson, scientist and environmentalist; wrote "Silent Spring" which became cornerstone of modern environmental protection movement
May 31, 1912 (1997) - Chien-Shiung Wu, renowned physicist; first woman elected President of American Physical Society in 1975, elected to National Academy of Science (1958), received National Medal of Science (1975)
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