As people continue to discuss and debate the military policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” (DADT) despite the fact the it’s well on it’s way to being fully repealed, another group continues to face continues discrimination and prejudice in all branches of the military, without very much debate and hardly any media coverage at […]
We love showcasing SheHeroes all over the world, especially young SheHeroes! Four New Zealand girls have been working hard to come up with a solution to help save the honeybee.
For many years the stereotypes associated with cheerleaders has been either the school mean girl or school airhead. And those stereotypes have been reinforced in movies and television shows (see Glee) since the first high school movie was made. I have to admit that I bought in to those stereotypes a time or two during my […]
One of the biggest events to happen every year where I live is the annual rodeo. It’s known as the “World’s Fastest Rodeo” and is celebrating 90 years this year. Every year the Rodeo Queen and folks from the rodeo association visit the schools to teach kids about the rodeo and how using the cowboy […]
I recently came across something posted on Facebook that captured my eye. It was a blog post about a campaign from the Body Shop that had launched in the late nineties known as “the Ruby Campaign.” The Ruby campaign was part of a bigger ‘‘Love Your Body’’ campaign from the store. The Body Shop wanted […]
It seems that many parents these days (especially our readers here on the SheHeroes blog) are always looking for ways to somehow balance out gender identity for our young boys and girls as well as ways to call out toy companies, TV shows and clothing makers that help force certain gender ideas on children in […]
Here at SheHeroes we not only love to share stories about SheHeroes out and about making the world a better place today, but we also love to share stories of SheHeroes from history. One of my personal favorite SheHeroes in history, America's first female mayor. As it turned out America’s first female mayor holds another […]
My son is 8 years old. He is in the 2nd grade and surrounded some of the most amazing little 8-year-old girls I could ever imagine. Not only are they all beautiful in a million different ways, they all have these amazing personalities. Some are quiet and hard to reach at first. But when they […]
May 3 marked a special, yet not widely recognized anniversary in Women’s History. On that day in 1933 Nellie Tayloe Ross (one of my favorite SheHeroes in History) took office as the first female and longest serving Director of the US. Mint. But that wasn’t the only things Ross was known for. You would think […]
A common thread throughout the posts we do here on the SheHeroes Blog as well as the great stuff we find and share with our Facebook and Twitter friends is how we can get more girls into the field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Statistics continue to show that while women are holding […]
