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9-Year-Old Girl Teams With NBA Star Stephen Curry To Bring His Shoes To Girls, Too

Guest ContributorNovember 30, 2018

By John Marcotte, Founder, Heroic Girls - NBA All-Star Stephen Curry is a staunch advocate for equal rights for women. The basketball champion and father of two...

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No Folding Chair Required… How Women You Should Know Offers Us All A Seat At The Table

Guest ContributorNovember 8, 2018

By Marie Gardiner - Being a woman in business, being a woman doing something ‘different,’ or heck, sometimes just being a woman, can be a step off a high ledge ...

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I Am Relieved That I Will Never Be A Grandmother

Guest ContributorNovember 3, 2018

By Lori Day - I am the mother of a 26-year-old daughter, my only child. As one of the early IVF pioneers of the late 80’s and early 90’s, I went through many ye...

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When the World Is Too Scary for Supergirl: The Fear and Grief of an 8-Year-Old

Guest ContributorNovember 1, 2018

By Carrie Goldman - Every week, our family gathers together on Sunday nights to watch Supergirl. We first fell in love with the series when our youngest daughte...

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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got ‘Til It’s Gone… Why We Need To Support Women You Should Know Now

Guest ContributorNovember 1, 2018

By Lori Day - If you’re like me and like most people, sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone. Joni Mitchell turned that sentiment into a song i...

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Joann DiGennaro On Guiding Record Numbers Of Women Into STEM Careers Through Pioneering Programs

Guest ContributorOctober 26, 2018

Dr. Pam Taub, general cardiologist and associate professor of medicine at UC San Diego, who discovered that dark chocolate has a compound that can improve the m...

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“The Women’s Movement Inspired Me” 92-Year-Old Karline Tierney On Her Decades Long Role As A Women’s Rights Activist

Guest ContributorOctober 25, 2018

By Karline Tierney - I was born in Auburn, New York, in 1926. My parents, Jane and Karl Koenen, already had a daughter and assumed I would be a boy, and I’d...

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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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Meet The History-Making Firefighters Of First All-Women Staffed Engine Company In NYC

Guest ContributorSeptember 28, 2018

By United Women Firefighters - On Wednesday, September 26, 2018, an all-women staffed FDNY engine company served the City of New York for the first time in the ...

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