"developing-countries" Articles & Blogs:
How a sports brand can create awareness through viral video
| One of the best viral videos I’ve seen coming from a sports brand is associated with a powerful advocacy campaign created by the Nike Foundation called the Girl Effect.
Although the campaign’s mission is not overtly obvious, the interactive video (se...[Read on] |
Meet SHE
| Part of a continuing series on cool, women-centric companies and organizations around the world.
Better sanitary protection, PERIOD. Girls and women in developing countries can miss school and/or work--up to 50 days--because they don't have access to aff...[Read on] |
Girl Up Pep Rally
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More than 400 girls and (and some boys) from all over LA joined gathered at the Marlborough School in Hancock Park a few weeks ago to support the United Nations Girl Up campaign and learn about the lives of girls in Malawi, Liberia, Guatemala, and Ethio...[Read on] |
HBO developing show for Laura Dern
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HBO seems to be on a great track. Based on her Golden Globe winning and Emmy nominated performance as Katherine Harris in Recount, HBO wanted to get into the series business with Dern. But she wanted to wait for the right vehicle
Enter Mike White (Ye...[Read on] |
Female heads of state will add luster to G20 summit
| Four female leaders who smashed through glass ceilings in the male-dominated political arena will gather in Seoul to attend the G20 summit. This will be the largest number of female heads of state present at one place in the history of the G20 summit.
Th...[Read on] |
Save our Mac & Cheese
| Did you know that Kraft Macaroni and Cheese is formulated differently for countries in Europe than for the U.S.? I didn't either until I read The Unhealthy Truth, a book about the toxicity of America's food supply.
The fact is, that in 2008, Kraft remove...[Read on] |
UN Delegates Walk Out After Ahmadinejad's Anti-Israeli Speech
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Western diplomats walked out of a UN summit on racism after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described Israel as a criminal stateMahmoud Ahmadinejad | Today 10:50 am
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inspired a protest at the United Nations this morning by blast...[Read on] |
Why is Facebook's avatar a dude?
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Sociological Images has a great short post about Facebook's default avatar - which appears to be a white male.
Lisa makes the interesting point that when Facebook wants to represent people globally, they use avatars that look markedly different:
So ...[Read on] |
Mindy Kaling of 'The Office' Wants To Write Romantic-Comedies For A New Generation
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We all love Tina Fey, don’t get me wrong, but wouldn’t it be nice to have more than one path set for women writing comedy? She has really has set a new standard for what it means to be a female comedy writer and I’m sure it’s...[Read on] |
In Afghanistan, the best way for women to help women is by training men
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Women for Women International provides education and aid for women in war-torn areas. Currently, they operate in eight countries -- Sudan, Nigeria, Congo, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan -- teaching women how to read and become more self-suff...[Read on] |
Secretary Clinton to Launch Women’s World Cup Initiative
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Pretty Smart! On Monday June 6, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will launch the Women’s World Cup Initiative: Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports. The event, which will be streamed live on www.state.gov. will take place 9:30 am...[Read on] |
Ben & Jerry's Anti-Aging Ice Cream?
| Ice cream that makes you look younger may soon be in your grocer's freezer. It seems the makers of Ben & Jerry's teamed up with U.S. scientists to focus on developing products containing anti-aging antioxidants.
Unilever, which also produces the Bert...[Read on] |
Developing male allies in your male-dominated field
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The CalWomenTech Project has archived a Podcast on "Developing Male Allies in Your Male-Dominated Field" with Lori Johnson, President of Ladies Start Your Engines, an automotive class for women. In this informative 20-minute interview Lori shares tips to...[Read on] |
Women Are Still Less Equal
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It's not difficult to understand why a top dog might want to stay on top. For most of human history, females have been repeatedly marginalized by more powerful males until it's been institutionalized to a greater or lesser extent in almost all cultures. ...[Read on] |
America Must Do Better for Mothers in Childbirth, Says Documentarian Christy Turlington
| Ed Burns and Christy Turlington at Vanity Fair’s Tribeca Film Festival dinner, April 20, 2010. Photo via PatrickMcMullan.com. Every minute, a woman dies in childbirth. In total, that’s more than 500,000 women each year—and 90 percent of the time, th...[Read on] |
Getting out of the way so women can save the world
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Like most of you, I'm sure, I was excited to see the package of articles in The New York Times Magazine yesterday on the state of women's rights globally. Times columnist Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, authors of the lead article, have a forthcoming bo...[Read on] |
Gibson Girls: The Perfect Antidote to Fashion Week Futurism
| Charles Dana Gibson at his summer home near Dark Harbor, Maine, 1940. Credit: Condé Nast Archive. Fashion week is generally about looking forward, assessing developing trends, and discovering new engines of creativity that are likely to determine the way...[Read on] |
Other Products That Could Use Cigarette-Style Warning Labels
| Today, the Food and Drug administration unveiled upsetting new cigarette warning labels. The three dozen designs, which are featured on the agency’s Web site, “include pictures of a man smoking from a tracheostomy tube inserted into his throat; a dise...[Read on] |
Tobacco Companies Target Women, Say Foes
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Antismoking groups are taking on tobacco industry for targeting womenPost | 02/26/2009 4:15 pm
The tobacco industry has never been known for subtlety — and that’s no less true in their marketing toward women, say antismoking groups.
The ...[Read on] |
The latest in cycling trends
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According to Trend Central, the bike community is continuing to innovate and thrive. Here are some of the latest happenings in the cycling world.
Rolling Orange: They may not be world champions of soccer, but the Dutch are still an authority on bikes...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Long List of the Foreign Language Contenders
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The Academy released the 65 titles eligible for the best foreign film. Only SEVEN of the 65 are directed by women. Guess that things aren’t so much better outside the US for women directors.
Here are the women, the countries and their films:
Hunga...[Read on] |
Around the World, Women Have Reason to Celebrate and Work to Do
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by Amy Quinn, Senior Policy Analyst, National Women's Law Center
As the 100th International Women’s Day is observed today around the world, women have much to celebrate. Today’s women and girls have inherited a path made smoother by the brave effor...[Read on] |
Can sport help Bosnia forget the past?
| By Daria Sito-SucicBANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters Life!) - The biggest sporting event Bosnia has organized since the end of its devastating war 14 years ago has excited thousands of spectators -- but left others lamenting how the old nationalist pass...[Read on] |
Vera Wang takes the ice
| Many of us know Vera Wang as an American designer whose
trademark fashion is the bridal gown. But before she entered the fashion
industry, Wang was a figure skater who competed at the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating
Championships. When her skating dreams failed ...[Read on] |
2009 Women's Health Heroes.
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Go check out Our Bodies Ourselves 2009 Women's Health Heroes. It is an amazing group of women's health advocates. From the blog,
The 20 outstanding individuals and organizations inducted in May 2009 have made significant, long-lasting contributions to ...[Read on] |
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