Inspiration - Women You Should Know®

12-Year-Old Artist and Author Lends Her Talent To Paint Portrait Of A Woman Everyone Should Know

wyskFebruary 26, 2019

Trisha Rao has been painting since the age of 2, and has always loved to express herself through art and poetry. Now 12, she’s created over 300 acrylic paintin...

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Hannatu Yusuf On Her Escape From Boko Haram And The T-Shirt That Saved Her Life

Guest ContributorFebruary 26, 2019

This story is in partnership with UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) from their campaign “Holding On”, which shares the stories of internally di...

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Period. End Of Sentence. The Menstruation Taboo-Busting Documentary Short That Just Won The Oscar

wyskFebruary 25, 2019

"When a girl gets her period in the United States, she may miss a class. When a girl gets her period in a developing country, she may never go to school again....

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From Book Character To Plush Toy, Sheila Duncan’s “Trouble the Dog” Comforts Kids In Crisis

wyskFebruary 21, 2019

After retiring from a long, successful career as the owner of Maddie’s, a Marblehead, Massachusetts institution, and world-renowned sailing bar and restaurant,...

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Mother-Daughter Duo Spotlight Black Women Who Made History With Powerful Photography Project

wyskFebruary 19, 2019

“Who was the first girl chemist?” When a then 7-year-old Georgia asked this question in 2017, her mother, Shauna, a photographer and homeschooler, seized the o...

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10 Love Notes That Remind Us Why Doing “Women’s Work” Matters

wyskFebruary 14, 2019

We recently shared our truth. Now in our 8th year of telling women’s untold stories, amplifying their voices, championing their causes, joining their fights, a...

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

Guest ContributorFebruary 13, 2019

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 s...

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WYSK Ignited Our Campaign To Get A Woman On The US 20, Time To Rally For Them

Guest ContributorFebruary 13, 2019

By Susan Ades Stone and Barbara Ortiz Howard - Everybody thought it was a great idea whose time certainly had come. Why hadn’t anyone thought of it before...

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Be Our Galentine… 3 WYSKy Ways To Say “I’m In!”

wyskFebruary 13, 2019

Leslie Knope calls it "only the best day of the year!" We think so too. This Galentine's Day - well, every day! - "ladies celebrate ladies" at W...

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