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Let It STEM, Let It STEM, Let It STEM: A Holiday Guide To 2019’s Great Women In Science Books

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 11, 2019

Queen Of Sole: Notes To Self Socks Founder Laura Schmidt Puts Positive Affirmations On People’s Feet

wyskDecember 10, 2019

LATEST WYSK STORIES

Documentary Spotlights Courageous Women In Aviation And Determined Girls Pursuing The Field

wyskDecember 6, 2019

"Just watch, all of you men. I'll show you what a woman can do. . . . I'll go across the country, I'll race to the Moon. . . . I'll never look back." - Edna Ga...

CareerDocumentaryGirlsHistoryInspirationSTEMTrailblazersVideo0 Comments1 min read

Who Are The Toy Experts? Sexy Looking Dolls Are NOT On Trend

Guest ContributorDecember 5, 2019

By Jodi Bondi Norgaard - Every year, just in time for holiday shopping, the media serves up guides to help grown-ups buy the most sought-after toys for the kid...

Brewers Of ChangeEmpowermentGirlsProducts0 Comments6 min read

Recovered Voices: Pianist Lara Downes And The Quest For America’s Music

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 4, 2019

"Hey, do you want to go out to the symphony tonight?!""I sure do, I LOVE symphonic music! What are they playing?""It's a program of American classical mus...

CareerMusicWomen In Music0 Comments15 min read

Baby Liberty: 18-Month-Old Has Portrayed 137 Influential Women In Inspiring Photography Project

wyskDecember 3, 2019

Meet Liberty Jaine, a baby girl who has spent the first 18 months of her life paying visual tribute to women everyone should know through a photography project...

Brewers Of ChangeEducationEmpowermentEntertainmentEqualityGirlsInspirationTrailblazersWomen's Rights0 Comments5 min read

WOMXN: Short Documentary Series Explores What It Means To Be A Woman, Amplifies Lesser Heard Voices

wyskNovember 25, 2019

Through her just-released, 12-part, short documentary series, WOMXN, filmmaker Geneva Peschka spotlights twelve different women whose voices are lesser heard, ...

DocumentaryEmpowermentInspirationVideoWomanhoodYour Stories0 Comments6 min read

From Wartime Radar To W-Bosons: The Experimental Physics Of Joan Freeman

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 20, 2019

In 1983, one of the great pillars of modern physics was cemented in place when CERN announced the discovery of a group of particles that stood at the center of...

STEMTrailblazersWomen in Science0 Comments17 min read

The Path Of Most Resistance: Sophia Jex-Blake And The Fight For Women’s Medical Education

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 13, 2019

She had founded first England and then Scotland's first medical school for women, and been instrumental in the passing of the Medical Act that allowed women to...

Brewers Of ChangeEqualityHistoryMedicineWomen in Science0 Comments20 min read

U.S. Air Force Veteran Is On Mission To Make Sure Military Women’s Stories Are Told

Guest ContributorNovember 11, 2019

By Amanda Huffman, United States Air Force Veteran - I had a simple idea. I wanted to hear more deployment stories. I had been writing about my deployment expe...

BooksCareerInspirationYour Stories0 Comments10 min read

By Body Betrayed: The Vanishing Of Jacqueline du Pré

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 6, 2019

Were this a just and kind universe overseen by a benevolent being, cellist Jacqueline du Pré (1945-1987) would today be a mischievous seventy-four year old, sp...

CareerMusicWomen In Music0 Comments21 min read

Girls

This 7-Year-Old’s ASL Telling Of Polar Express Is One Of The Best Things Ever

wyskDecember 19, 2016

The Polar Express has been retold many times over the years...now it is the time to be told in the beauty of American Sign Language by 7-year-old Shaylee....

BooksGirlsHolidayVideo0 Comments1 min read

Winning Girl: The Rise Of A 16-Year-Old Judo & Wrestling Champion

wyskMay 8, 2015

"Teshya Alo is the shining example of a post-Title IX girl who enjoys all the opportunities of athletics and is defining for herself what a girl should and can be."...

DocumentaryGirlsSportsVideo1 Comment3 min read

Aspiring Inventor Builds For A Cause… Uses LEGO Pieces For ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

wyskMarch 16, 2015

"It's Emmet doing the ALS ice bucket challenge." - Aieshah Ashfer, age 8...

GirlsGood CausesProducts0 Comments0 min read

Entertainment

“Love, Gilda”… A Documentary Celebrating The Life And Legacy Of The Great Gilda Radner

wyskSeptember 21, 2018

When Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989 I was 20 years old, having grown up with Roseannadanna, Emily Litella and her other one-of-...

DocumentaryTrailblazersVideo0 Comments2 min read

Free Screenings Of “Hidden Figures” To Be Held In 14 US Cities To Celebrate Black History Month

wyskFebruary 15, 2017

If you have not yet seen (and been inspired by) the 3X Academy Award nominated film "Hidden Figures", now is your chance to see it… for free on February 18....

FilmHistory0 Comments2 min read

Tribeca Film Fest: Female Filmmakers To Watch And Other NYC Awesomeness

Guest ContributorJuly 12, 2018

By Cheryl Laughlin - The past couple of years, I’ve been leap frogging from film fest to film fest, working my way through my "Wow, Someday…...

DocumentaryEntertainmentFilm0 Comments7 min read

Women In Science

Nobel Laureate Maria Goeppert-Mayer And The Creation Of Nuclear Shell Theory

Dale DeBakcsyMay 2, 2018

How does radioactive decay know when to stop? When Uranium-238 breaks up, it goes through twenty-two intermediate isotopes before finally c...

Women in Science0 Comments12 min read

How 18th Century Botanist Catharina Helena Dorrien Created Girls’ Science Education

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 24, 2018

Pondering the Enlightenment, one's thoughts tend to turn Frenchwards. The verbal barbs of Voltaire, the neuroses of Rousseau, the literary e...

Women in Science0 Comments8 min read

First: The Astrophysics and Astronautics of Dr. Sally Ride (1951-2012)

Dale DeBakcsyApril 12, 2017

"The fact that I was going to be the first American woman going into space carried huge expectations along with it." - Dr. Sally Ride...

Women in Science0 Comments10 min read