Cardea Center for Women

UN Women Born: Civil Society Celebrates Creation of Gender Equality Entity
the United Nations General Assembly resolution, agreed to on 30 June and to be formally adopted by the General
Assembly on Friday, 2 July, to establish "UN Women"-the new gender equality entity at the UN.
The work of UN Women will be framed by the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action and the
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which marked its 30th
anniversary in 2009. Read More
The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the kickoff of the first phase of the Career Videos for America's
Job Seekers Challenge, which invites members of the public to produce and submit one to three minute videos
focusing on the daily activities of one of 15 high-wage and in-demand occupations.. The creators of the top video
in each category will win a $1,000 cash prize. Read More
Women’s Policy Institute, a program of the Women’s Foundation of California is accepting applications for the
2010–2011 year. The Women’s Policy Institute provides intensive advocacy and leadership training for approximately
30 California women each year. Fellows in the Women’s Policy Institute are leaders from multiple sectors who
have experience in women’s issues and deep connections to the grassroots community.Read more
Young women are untapped resource for science-based economy.
While more than half of American college students are female, only 18 percent of engineering undergraduates are
women. Aptitude tests show no intrinsic gender gap that could explain this disparity, but women avoid technical
studies in large numbers. This represents a substantial lost opportunity not just to science, but to our economy.
Women make up a huge talent pool from which we should be drawing our next generation of innovators. Read more
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court to replace liberal retiring
Justice John Paul Stevens, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds:.
She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time.
Why Are Women-Owned Firms Smaller Than Men-Owned Ones?
The Wall Street Journal recently featured article about women entrepreneurs. And the figures highlighted in this
report were decidedly grimmer than those in other reports.
Reporter Sharon Hadley has found that in 2009 that “the average revenues of majority women-owned businesses
were still only 27% of the average of majority men-owned businesses”. read more
Volunteers and the Health Benefits of Service The health benefits of volunteering have been reported before,
That picture is a little clearer thanks to a report VolunteerMatch released with UnitedHealthcare. Does volunteering
make you healthier, or do healthier people volunteer? Should service be prescribed for those with cancer or chronic
illness? Are there health benefits to volunteering that working for pay cannot provide?
UnitedHealthcare/VolunteerMatch Do Good. Live Well. Survey [pdf]
The Anita Borg Institute has a few value based scholarships for women to attend the Grace Hopper Conference
for Women in Computing. They are awarded to women from poorer countries that are enabling and supporting
women in technology and could benefit from attending the conference. May 14, 2010 (EXTENDED) - Deadline for
Change Agent Award Nominations. Read More
Women Feed the World, But Struggle to Feed Themselves
Ask your Senator to Co-Sponsor The Global Food Security Act GFSA, S. 384. It would give women the tools they
need to feed themselves and their families. Women farmers grow over half of all food in the world. Yet women
receive about five percent of all agricultural extension services and own an estimated two percent of the world's
titled land. Equal access to inputs - such as credit, tools, fertilizers and technological advances - is imperative to
increasing food security and reducing hunger. Today, many development programs and services do not adequately
invest in women. The Global Food Security Act strengthens food security by increasing critical investments, and
focusing on small-scale farmers, especially women. Read more
In the fast-moving world of high-tech start-ups, the number of women has been slow to change.
The article "Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley, why so few Women in Silicon Valley?" featured in the Business section
of the New York Times last Sunday, provides an in-depth analysis of gender discrepancies in the high-tech industry
at different levels. Read More
Earlier this month, the California Commission on the Status of Women co-sponsored a webinar with the California
Budget Project about the impact of state budget cuts on the women of California. If you weren't able to register
for the webinar, featuring Jean Ross, Executive Director, CBP, you can view it now by going to the following link:
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Dorothy Height, a leader of the African-American and women’s rights movements who was considered both
the grande dame of the civil rights era and its unsung heroine, died on Tuesday in Washington. One of the last living
links to the social activism of the New Deal era, Ms. Height had a career in civil rights that spanned nearly 80 years.
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AAUW ( the American Association of University Women) has issued a report that examines the reasons why
there are relatively few women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions. the report,
looks at research findings that point to eight environmental and social that serve as barriers to women's participation
and progress. Read More
Does Wall Street Need an Estrogen Injection? *Some suggest that having more women in high-ranking bank
positions might have helped avoid the financial crisis. Would the presence of more women in the C-suites have led
to a different outcome? Would women have made fewer outlandish bets, been more team-oriented and more willing
to listen to dissenting views? Read More Read More
Department of Labor announces availability of $1.8 million to assist women in non-traditional occupations
In the America of the 21st century, the role of women in the workplace should be defined by their training and
abilities, not their gender," said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. "These grants recognize that women can —
and do — excel in a wide range of professions, from construction and manufacturing to science and engineering.
The U.S. Department of Labor is committed to helping all women gain the skills and on-the-job training that will lead
to their long-term success, and I am pleased that today's announcement brings us closer to that goal." Read More
Space is about to have a female population explosion. One woman already is circling Earth in a Russian capsule,
bound for the International Space Station. Early Monday morning, NASA will attempt to launch three more women
to the orbiting outpost — along with four men — aboard shuttle Discovery. It will be the most women in space at the
same time. Read More
Should Motherhood mean no family planning?...Read More...
Promoting women is simply good business...Read More Read More
A Chat with Gloria Steinem -
http://pndblog.typepad.com/pndblog/2010/02/a-chat-with-gloria-steinem.html
Fighting for Women's Economic Security Everywhere
A group of experts from around the globe converged in Haifa, Israel, late last year to discuss a crucial topic at a
United Nations conference: the impact of the economic crisis on women worldwide and noted in their declaration,
"We strongly emphasize the role of women as important agents of change and urge their full involvement in efforts
to stimulate national economies to ensure long-term recovery."
For more on the conference, read the Haifa Declaration.
San Jose police, county DA go extra mile on domestic violence cases.
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Women Scientists Do More Housework than Men
. When the biologist Carol W. Greider received a call from
Stockholm last fall telling her she had won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, she wasn't working in her lab at
the Johns Hopkins University. The professor of molecular biology and genetics was at home, folding laundry.
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Congratulations to Brigadier General Mary J. Knight on her appointment on February 1, 2010, to serve as Adjutant
General of the California National Guard, the first woman to hold this position. We applaud Governor Schwarzenegger
on his selection of General Knight. She is a role model to women and girls both here in California and across the nation.
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t’s been one year since the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Today, women still earn, on average, only
77 cents for every dollar earned by men. We are fighting for the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, the essential
companion legislation to the Ledbetter Act. It’s passed the House, but remains stalled in the Senate.
Please urge your Senators to quickly pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.
The Senate passed an omnibus spending bill, approved days earlier by the House of Representatives, increasing
by 25 percent the Department of Justice's funding to assist survivors of human trafficking! The report accompanying
the bill specifies that, for the first time, this funding will be available to serve all trafficking survivors in the United States,
whether they are foreign nationals or U.S. citizens. Now, the spending bill awaits President Obama's signature.
Click here for more details and information on whom to thank in Congress!
solid majority of Americans (75 percent) reject the idea that women should return to their traditional roles in society,
but many women remain conflicted about the competing roles they play at work and at home.
Click here to read this article
Maria Shrivers recently-released report, The Shriver Report: A Womans Nation Changes Everything talks
about societal changes resulting from so many women in the workplace. This report describes how a woman’s nation
changes everything about how we live and work today.

You are invited to the July Breakfast Roundtable Money Matters: How Women Earn, Spend, Save and Invest

You are invited to the July Breakfast Roundtable
Money Matters: How Women Earn, Spend, Save and Invest