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Online Leadership Curriculum Empowers Women To Have “Voice & Influence”

Guest ContributorMarch 20, 2013

From Stanford University's Clayman Institute, the innovative program aims to teach women to Lean In....

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The Reconstructionists: Remarkable Women Illustrated

wyskMarch 6, 2013

The Reconstructionists, an inspired online collaboration between illustrator Lisa Congdon and writer Maria Popova, is a yearlong celebration of remarkable women who shaped the world and our place in it....

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A Moment In Time With Photographer Cerise Doucede

wyskFebruary 22, 2013

French photographer and Woman You Should Know, Cerise Doucede creates gravity defying photographs capturing a brief moment of time....

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LuminAID co-founders Andrea and Anna with an early, homemade prototype

LuminAID: A Bright Idea From Anna Stork & Andrea Sreshta

wyskJanuary 10, 2013

Profile of Anna Stork and Andrea Sreshta's LuminAID, a solar-powered light that inflates to create a lightweight, waterproof "lantern"....

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Designer DYI Empire… How Erica Domesek Made It

wyskDecember 10, 2012

Profile of Erica Domesek, the Woman You Should Know behind the influential, designer DIY empire, P.S. - I made this......

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Phonekerchief: Cell Hanky With Courtesy Inducing Powers

wyskDecember 5, 2012

Phonekerchief... the service-blocking, behavior changing, mobile phone courtesy inducing hanky designed by Woman You Should Know Ingrid Zweifel...

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Sandy Glaze_Founder & Owner Sin in Linen

Sandy Glaze Makes Us Want To Sin In Linen

wyskNovember 9, 2012

Profile of Sandy Glaze, founder and owner of Sin in Linen, a home goods company offering a complete line of saucy and playful textile products for bed, bath, kitchen and home with edgy style....

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Woman Writes Novel On Her Blackberry And Gets It Published

wyskNovember 8, 2012

Georgina Campbell, a south London based British woman, managed to "write" an entire novel - The Kickdown Girls - on her Blackberry's memopad app and subsequently landed a publishing deal for it....

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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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