Girls Who Code Releases Music Video For Anthemic Rework Of 1970 Hit Song “Ooh Child”
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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This High School Freshman Pens Powerful Open Letter To The Grandparents Raising Her
According to Pew Trust, in 2015, 2.9 million children in the United States "were living with grandparents who were responsible for their care," and "the number ...
Former Students Offer Dose Of Inspiration To Incoming Middle School Girls
When girls from Somers Middle School in New York head back to classes this week, they will encounter a dose of inspiration left behind for them by some of their...
17-Year-Old STEM Scholar Pens Powerful Essay On Invaluable Rewards Of Pushing Past Self-Doubt
My name is Diana Mendoza, and I am the next generation of this country’s great architects, engineers and designers.At 17, I am heading into my junior year a...
Dress Coded: The Time Has Come For Schools To Accept Girls’ Bodies
By Revati Mahurkar - If it’s happened to you, you remember that moment. That moment when a teacher pulls you aside and tells you what you are wearing is not app...
12-year-old Gives Powerful And Moving Speech At “Families Belong Together” Rally In DC
12-year-old Leah from Florida is the daughter of undocumented immigrant parents. This is a speech she gave at a "Families Belong Together" rally in Washington, ...
Project Girl, A Film Series Inspired By True Stories Of Girlhood
Project Girl is a film series and community inspired by true stories of girlhood. Friends Connie Saltzman, Kate Tolo and Stephanie Bonnier founded the project t...
How Becoming A Parent Made Me Claim My Feminism
By Suzanne Hemming - I gave birth to my daughter in 2013 and it was as if my eyes suddenly opened and for the first time I saw the world we live in properly.
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History-Making Plumber Campaigns To Fund Her Nonprofit’s First Construction Skills Summer Camp For Girls
Fact: women make up less than 4% of skilled laborers in the U.S. construction industry (9% of the industry, overall). "It’s an unacceptable imbalance that has e...