Sports has always been a difficult arena for women to get recognition and when the 2010 Winter games swept the beautiful Canadian landscape last year it was easy to see the places where women had both accomplished much and the places where we were still fighting to be recognized. In 2010 there was one American […]
Title IX was passed 40 years ago. The wording for Title IX is fairly simple, "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..." —United States Code […]
Most of us here at SheHeroes and those of you who visit our site and read our blog are doing so because we are working hard to help encourage our daughters and the young girls in our lives to break gender stereotypes and strive to be whomever they want to be when they grow up. […]
Its one thing to blog about gender related issues here on the blog at SheHeroes, but it’s always something else to deal with them firsthand. It feels like it was just yesterday that I was dealing with an incident regarding my son not wanting to be teased for carrying a pink umbrella. But now it […]
Everywhere we turn during Women’s History Month we see amazing stories of SheHeroes from all over the world over the course of generations and generations. Each story is more inspiring than the last and I’m sure each one of you out there reading this has a SheHero from history who holds a special place in […]
NASA is doing their part to help inspire girls and woman in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Today NASA will be launching its new Women@NASA website during a Women's History Month event at the agency's Headquarters in Washington at 1 p.m. EDT. Over 200 local elementary school through high school students […]
Celebrating Women’s History Month doesn’t always mean honoring women in politics, science or social justice. In fact sometimes it doesn’t even mean honoring a woman, sometimes it’s about a 12 year-old girl named Tubby who loved to play baseball. In 1950 twelve year old Kathryn Johnston decided that she wanted play Little League with her […]
The internet is full of many things, and we are pleased to have a platform such as the world wide web to reach out to young girls across the globe and help inspire and empower them. And even better than that, is that we are not the only ones! There are hundreds of websites out […]
We are so excited to announce the winners of our first contest ever, the SheHeroes and Girls Can’t WHAT? Comment Contest! We want to thank everyone who took the time to enter and hope that you found something inspirational in the SheHero videos you watched.
Valentine’s Day is not the only thing being celebrated over the coming week. Across the country thousands of women will be celebrating something even more special, the 91st anniversary of the League of Women Voters. It’s no coincidence that this year we will also celebrate the 91st anniversary of the 19th amendment, which gave women […]
