"growing-bolder" Articles & Blogs:
Come out to support girls in Africa
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In early 2009, our good friends Carol Ann Gleason, Founder and Director of Stimulus Projects and NYC-based Photographer Danielle St. Laurent teamed up to launch the Geo-Girls Citizen Journalism Program at the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy in Nairobi, Kenya...[Read on] |
Women and the Civil War
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"What do women have to do with the origins of the Civil War?," begins Elizabeth R. Varon's piece on the New York Times website. "Growing up in Virginia in the 1970s, I often heard this answer: nothing."It's an answer we all hear as girls in history classe...[Read on] |
Microfinance Could Be Hazardous For Teens
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UNITED NATIONS, New York (WOMENSENEWS)-- Microfinance might be a panacea for women's poverty, as many claim, but concern is growing in the nongovernmental community about such loans to teens. Several in the field warn that microfinance loans to teen girls...[Read on] |
Two Girl Scouts Work to Make Cookies Ethical
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Growing up I was shy and awkward. Okay, maybe I’m still a little shy and awkward but my point is that I didn’t always have the confidence to stand up for myself. But a major source of confidence and esteem building for me came from my involvem...[Read on] |
New Breast Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
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It's a great day for women's health! A new breast cancer vaccine is in the works and currently showing great promise of preventing and treating breast cancer.Breast cancer affects one in eight women in the United States, and this vaccine holds the p...[Read on] |
The Tempest picked as NY Film Festival’s centerpiece
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The pedigree for The Tempest directed by Julie Taymor keeps growing. It will have its world premiere as the closing film at the Venice Film Festival in September, and now it has been tapped as the centerpiece film for this year’s NY Film Festival.
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Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How to Escape the Internet
| Today’s Wall Street Journal exposes the growing trend of the Internet being used as a tool of procrastination. (Surely you, person reading this on a Tuesday at four p.m., have not heard of anything like this.) Easily distracted novelists seek solace in ...[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] |
Women's Equality
| Equality
Going to the polls to vote, or stepping out on the court to play a basketball game, I realize that I have a voice. My voice stands for all women. Women who were not and still cannot vote for anything. For women who cannot participate in sports a...[Read on] |
BlogHer'10 - Women in Sports Panel
| Re-capping BLOGHER '10
Driving into New York City this weekend for the BlogHer event was definately something I was looking forward to participating in. I honestly didnt know exactly what to expect, but I felt as though bringing a professional athe...[Read on] |
Help little girls dream big
| Someone recently introduced me to Go! Go! Sports Girls - dolls that are symbols for what young girls should be doing - living at their own age (versus a 22 year old Barbie) with normal kids clothing on (not a sexy 2-piece) and getting out ...[Read on] |
Pro Squash player Suzie Pierrepont talks passion, tournaments, and — yep — women’s (lower) pay
| By Sarah Odell
I met professional squash player Suzie Pierrepont last spring at the U25 National Doubles Tournament at the Field Club of Greenwich, CT. Suzie, a 23-year-old Brit, is ranked 25th in the world and is now based in the U.S. at the Apawamis Cl...[Read on] |
Serena's 'Signature' style
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makes Serena Williams more nervous: playing in a Grand Slam tournament or
appearing on HSN to hawk her fashion and accessories line? Well, neither
because the tennis star and style icon doesn't get nervous. But having fashion
design as an outlet has ...[Read on] |
Women’s ski jumping added to Sochi Olympic Games 2014
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LONDON, April 6, 2011 — For the first time in Olympic Winter Games history, women will participate in ski jumping, beginning in Sochi, Russia in 2014.
The International Olympic Committee made the announcement today during the IOC Executive Board’s...[Read on] |
Who Can Forget a Kickass Female Crime-Fighter?
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I have never read a Sweet Valley High book but Francine Pascal’s Fearless series, on the other hand, well, I read them all. Why am I all nostalgic today about a female crime fighter? When I came in to the BUST office today, a double edition (books ...[Read on] |
A woman gets her own theatre
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Great news. Rising star director Kate Whoriskey has been tapped by the Intiman Theatre in Seattle to take over as Artistic Director when current star director Barlett Sher leaves in 2010.
She will join a small club of female artistic directors in charg...[Read on] |
New accessories and clothes may help fitness efforts
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What if you could improve your athleticism or physique just by wearing an accessory or an article of clothing? Thanks to a new crop of performance wear products, you actually may be able to do so. For the most part, the items sound too good to be true ...[Read on] |
Ask a Lawyer: Regarding the Saturday Night Live Scandal, Can One Copyright Tiny Hats?
| The past two days have seen the rise of a huge controversy about tiny hats. This weekend’s premiere of Saturday Night Live featured a sketch called “Ladies Who Lunch” in which a socialite, to the jealously and delight of her friends, purchases incre...[Read on] |
Nawal El Moutawakel on education of women and girls
| LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications
TAMPA/NEW YORK, Sept 22: IOC Executive Board member Nawal El Moutawakel was speaking out at the UN Millennium Development Goals Summit being held in New York to support of education for women.
The Olympian i...[Read on] |
Title IX: 38 Years Later
| by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in all federally funded educational programs. It has op...[Read on] |
Two women start new film studio
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Mary Dickinson and Charlene Fisher announced the formation of DFIS on Friday which will develop, produce, market and distribute films with a budget of up to $10 million dollars.
They plan to produce 10-12 independent pictures per year and have $150 milli...[Read on] |
More Women Earn Bachelor's Degrees Than Men, Study Shows
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Women are 60 percent more likely than men to earn a bachelor's degree by the time they are 23, according to data recently released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The data, mined from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1997, shows that by ...[Read on] |
Women at the Box Office: July 23-25
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Salt starring Angelina Jolie didn’t make it to number 1 thanks to the growing cultural obsession with Inception (which I liked a lot), but it was number 2 for the weekend bringing in a total of $36.5 million (the budget is estimated to be between $110...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Shoshanna: Designer celebrating a woman’s life through style
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There are not many items that are universal to every woman. Because we come in all different shapes, sizes and backgrounds, it’s difficult to pinpoint one distinct style or look to compliment every lady.
However, some items are absolutely necessary for...[Read on] |
Spotlight on Shoshanna: Designer celebrating a woman’s life through style
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There are not many items that are universal to every woman. Because we come in all different shapes, sizes and backgrounds, it’s difficult to pinpoint one distinct style or look to compliment every lady.
However, some items are absolutely necessary for...[Read on] |
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