You may have seen the excerpt from Tina Fey’s new book, “Bossypants” making the rounds online this week. The adorable “Mother’s Prayer For Its Daughter” is an honest and funny look at all the things we want and don’t want for out daughters, as they grow older. After reading this I couldn’t help but look […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
One of the great things about being in the business of empowering girls is connecting with all the great orgs we meet along the way! One of those great orgs is the Illinois based Girls Can’t WHAT? Here’s the scoop on Girls Can’t WHAT? from their website,
The Lemelson-MIT Program is a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is dedicated to inspiring and encouraging great inventors through various outreach programs. They recently announced the results of the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index that were slightly surprising. Well surprising to some, but not to us here at SheHeroes.
We here at SheHeroes we love to see women doing amazing things. But if there’s something we love even more, it’s young women doing amazing things! Which is why we had to give a big SheHero shout out to 10-year old Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Kathryn kicked off 2011 by becoming the […]
