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Title IX Isn’t Always the Answer

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 […]

The Lack of Male Teachers and Its Effects on Boys

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. […]

Defining Gender With Coats

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 […]

10 Inspiring Books for Girls

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 Launches Women@NASA Website

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 […]

Women’s History Month Profile - The Girls of Summer

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 […]

10 Websites We Love That Are Helping Empower Girls

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 […]

Winners of SheHeroes and Girls Can’t WHAT? Comment Contest!

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.

The League of Women Voters Celebrates 91 Years

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 […]

Videos Games with Dad Make for Happy Girls

We don’t normally consider playing video games to be the best things for our kids. But a recent study from Brigham Young University’s School of Family which was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health had some surprising results that pointed out not just some beneficial aspects to playing video games, but that these beneficial […]

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