In this day and age most kids are as well versed in technology as the most tech savvy adult by a fairly young age. My own kids both have my husband and my older iPhones and use them regularly. The phone and texting service is unable on these old phones, but they are able to watch movies, listen to music and download appropriate apps to play.
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Some of my favorite type of stories to share on the SheHeroes blog are ones that you might not hear about outside small local newspapers and newsletters, but thanks to the internet we can find stories of young SheHeroes doing SheHeroic things and share them with SheHeroes everywhere. Continue reading →
It seems only fitting that we would mark the 100th Anniversary of The Girls Scouts of America right in the middle of Women’s History Month. After all, few organizations have included such a large number of the most successful and famous women in history. Women who have taken the Girl Scout pledge include everyone from Lynda Carter, Shirley Temple, Taylor Swift, Hillary AND Chelsea Clinton to Sally Ride, Katy Couric, Sandra Day O’Connor, Condoleezza Rice and Lucille Ball… to name just a few. Continue reading →
Today is International Women’s Day and here at SheHeroes we are happy to be celebrating by taking part in the ThirdAnnual Blog for International Women’s Day. Today is the day when bloggers, writers, and humanitarian organizations write about the International Women’s Day annual theme. Continue reading →
No matter how many times I hear the statistics regarding how underrepresented women are in politics today in the U.S. they are always just as disappointing as they were the first time I heard them. Currently there are 83 nations that rank higher then the U.S. in women elected into office. There are 100 seats in the U.S. Senate and women hold only 17 of them. In the house, women fill 16.8% or 90 of those 535 seats. Of the 50 Governors that rule our nations states, only 6 are women. The numbers go on and on. Continue reading →
Today the wonderful world of books is being celebrated at schools and in homes all across the country in honor of Read Across America day, which of course coincides with the birthday of Dr. Seuss. The man who’s responsible for helping kids learn to read for the last four decades. Continue reading →
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Tagged books, Education, Harriet Tubman, Inspire, Sally Ride, SheHeroes, Title IX, Women, women in politics, Women in Sports, women's history month, women’s suffrage movement
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March 8th is International Women’s Day; in fact the entire month of March is Women’s History Month. What is your community doing to honor it? How about your local schools? Will your son or daughter come home with papers and projects related to Women’s History like they did Presidents Day, St. Patrick’s Day or even Valentine’s Day? Probably not.
That’s because for as far as “gender equality” has come in the year’s since the Women’s Suffrage movement, it still has not come nearly far enough. Most girls grow up knowing very little about the Women’s Suffrage movement, and what a long hard battle those women fought to simply say that we could step into a voting booth. Continue reading →
It can be hard to find really cool adventuress female characters in books and TV for girls. They are out there, there’s just not a whole lot to choose from. Which is one of the reasons why stumbling upon stories of female adventurers in REAL life is so great. Well if you’re looking for one such girl, look no further than 16-year-old Laura Dekker, the youngest sailor to sail around the world. Continue reading →
Imagine being a girl with a dream of being a boxer. And you follow that dream until you become a female boxer. But then, you realize that you will never get the chance to box at the Olympics, because you’re a girl. So you decide to fight. And eventually you win.
That’s was the feeling of female boxers across the globe when in 2009 the International Olympic Committee Executive Board announced that women’s boxing (the only summer sport on the Olympic docket without a female counterpart) would be added to the schedule for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, England. Continue reading →
Recently we talked on the blog and on Facebook about a study that was done about the difference in educational priorities for girls in areas of India where there are gender quotas for women in politics versus areas in India where there are no women in power. The differences were obvious. This post led to a discussion about the benefits of gender quotas. Girls can’t be what they can’t see, and quotas force women into positions where they can set examples for girls.
This theory was taken a step further in research done closer to home that went beyond politics and right into the effects of gender quotas in areas of science, technology, math and engineering (STEM). But currently, especially here in the United States, women are still consistently underrepresented in corporations, STEM careers as well as politics. Continue reading →
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Tagged Education, Gender messages, Girls and STEM, Inspire, Math, NASA, physicist, Politics, science, Women in Engineering
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