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Rachel Bloom Takes On Rape Culture In Sex Ed Sketch Series With Planned Parenthood

wyskOctober 19, 2018

Bringing Teleology Back: Agnes Arber’s Neo-Aristotelian Plant Morphology

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 17, 2018

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18-Year-Old Activist Emmy Adams Is Working To Turbocharge Youth Voter Turnout This November

Guest ContributorOctober 16, 2018

By Emmy Adams My name is Emmy Adams. I am an activist, a tree hugger, a fire-breathing feminist and a big fan of democracy. I have helped start four non-prof...

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Women Veterans & Federal Agents Running for Office Come Together in Compelling, Must Watch Video

wyskOctober 12, 2018

In the powerful, new video Women Rising, eight women veterans and federal agents who are running for office for the very first time, have come together to share...

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Girls Who Code Releases Music Video For Anthemic Rework Of 1970 Hit Song “Ooh Child”

wyskOctober 11, 2018

In celebration of this year’s International Day of the Girl, Girls Who Code, a national non-profit organization working to close the gender gap in technology, h...

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Abby Sugar And Liz Leifer Turn Mission Of Gender-Free Underwear Brand Into Courage-Filled Movement

wyskOctober 10, 2018

Pink and pastel. Lace and floral. Ill fitting and uncomfortable. That’s all Abby Sugar could find when it came to underwear, and none of it had any appeal. So i...

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Lynn Conway and the VLSI Revolution in Microchip Design

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 10, 2018

Last week my stepfather, a retired electrical engineer, passed away at the age of 89, and in the boxes and boxes of papers he had kept as the signifiers of his ...

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Monica Lewinsky Launches #DefyTheName PSA For Anti-Bullying Month

wyskOctober 5, 2018

Continuing on her anti-bullying crusade, social activist Monica Lewinsky, in partnership with BBDO New York and Dini von Mueffling Communications, has launched ...

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Yazidi Survivor Nadia Murad, Subject Of ‘On Her Shoulders’ Documentary, Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

wyskOctober 5, 2018

Today it was announced that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2018 has been awarded to two individuals for their respective efforts "to end the use of sexual violence a...

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Helen Keller And Her ‘Miracle Worker’ Teacher Anne Sullivan

wyskOctober 5, 2018

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained." ...

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Meet The Millennial Women Serving Up ‘Candidates & Coffee’ To Rally Young Americans To Vote

wyskOctober 4, 2018

As of July 1, 2016, millennials, defined then as ages 20 to 35, numbered 71 million in the U.S. but cast only 34 million votes in the presidential election that...

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Girls

She’s Warming The Tiny Heads And Hearts Of Preemies

wyskMarch 20, 2014

What started out as a hobby has turned into something much, much more. ...

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Teen Inventor Creates iCPooch, So You Can Video Chat With Your Pets

wyskOctober 28, 2014

The idea is not only to help reduce a pet’s anxiety, it also provides owners with the peace of mind of knowing that they can interact with their pets while they’re away from home....

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16-Year-Old Mikhaila Nodel Spreading A Message Of Body Positivity & Self-Love Through Art

Guest ContributorApril 27, 2015

Cosmic Cuties..."Kickass space girls who fight sexism throughout the universe."...

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Entertainment

Fangirl Dressed As Green Arrow To Her School Prom. It’s Awesome.

wyskJune 17, 2015

"I would like to be someone that people could look up to and inspire them to be themselves and not to worry about what others think of them, to be an inspiration, good example, and help others.”...

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Porn For Book Lovers: The Art Of Making A Book

wyskDecember 17, 2014

In the age of e-readers and internet-everything, it's easy to forget what it once took physically make a book....

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Move Over Google Doodle… WYSK Launches Inspiring Doodle Series With Artist Jenipher Lyn

Jenipher LynJune 23, 2014

Once a month, one of her positivity fueled doodles will be showcased on the Women You Should Know homepage. How doodle-tastic is that?!...

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Women In Science

Isabel Morgan, Polio, and the High Cost of Marriage

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 8, 2017

That Isabel Morgan lived and researched and discovered we can celebrate. That her career was cut short we can lament....

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Birute Galdikas And The Complicated Simplicity Of The Bornean Orangutan

Dale DeBakcsyJune 20, 2018

By 1971, when a 24 year old anthropology student by the name of Birute Galdikas set foot in the wilds of Borneo to study the largely unknown...

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Grace Hopper And The Democratization Of Computer Programming

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 7, 2018

In a room across the hall from where I teach, a group of a dozen kids between the ages of nine and thirteen are learning how to program in P...

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