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Girl Rising: When We Educate Girls, We Can Change The World [VIDEO]

wyskJanuary 17, 2013

Girl Rising is a feature-length film at the center of a global action campaign for girls' education. Around the world, millions of girls face barriers to education that boys do not. And, yet, when you educate a girl, you can break cycles of poverty in just one generation....

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You Are… Movement

wyskDecember 18, 2012

Motivated by the constant news of young suicides associated with bullying, Tiffany founded the You Are… Movement last November, a non-profit organization that strives to help teenagers gain confidence in themselves....

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Girl Meets Rock!

Willa RubinDecember 13, 2012

I was never going to be "one of the guys", nor did I have any desire to be, but as I tried time and time again to form rock bands, I found that as a girl, I often wasn't taken seriously...

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Buffalo Girls: An Inside Look At The Underground World of Child Boxers

wyskDecember 7, 2012

Buffalo Girls takes a look at Thailand’s underground world of child boxers, telling the heartbreaking story of 8-year-old-girls, Stam and Pet, both professional Muay Thai prizefighters. ...

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Thirteen Year Old Girl Takes On Toy Giant Hasbro in Easy Bake Oven Gender War

wyskDecember 3, 2012

Thirteen year old girl, McKenna Pope, is taking on toy giant Hasbro in an Easy Bake Oven gender war. The teen says that the toy exclusively marketed to girls is sending a clear and archaic message - "Women Cook, Men Work"....

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Take a Stand for the Girl Who Stood Up: Nominate Malala for the Nobel Peace Prize

wyskNovember 15, 2012

Bonnie S. Lloyd, a woman from Rochester, NY, has started a Change.org campaign that petitions Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton & Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to nominate Malala Yousafzai for a Nobel Peace Prize....

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Teen Girls Invent Drowning Prevention T-Shirt For Toddlers

wyskOctober 19, 2012

A group of teen girls from an Arizona high school have invented the Watawescue, a drowning prevention T-shirt for toddlers that inflates and produces an alarm when drenched with water, as in the case of a child accidentally falling into a pool. Their invention earned them a spot in the 2012-2013 InvenTeams Program, a Lemelson-MIT initiative aimed at getting high-school students excited about invention within the STEM fields....

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Thanks To Stella Ehrhart Playing “Dress Up” Has Never Been So Inspired

wyskOctober 18, 2012

Stella Ehrhart, an 8 year old third grader from Omaha, Nebraska, dresses as a different historical figure each day, mostly drawing inspiration from her "100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century" book....

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Happy International Day Of The Girl

wyskOctober 11, 2012

October 11th, marks the first ever International Day of the Girl. This special resolution was proclaimed by the United Nations in an effort to encourage a worldwide conversation about bettering girls' lives and providing them with more opportunities for leadership. ...

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