At the World Economic Conference in Davos, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg spoke on a panel about women in leadership. Did she speak about business strategies, quotas versus merit, politics, reproductive rights? No. Sandberg spoke about female ambition and how girls’ aspirations are blunted at an early age. She spoke about the ‘ambition gap.” She said [...]
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Sheryl Sandberg on the ‘ambition gap’
Posted in Education, tagged Sheryl Sanberg on February 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »
‘Kids learn through play,’ the Wall Street Journal says so
Posted in Education, Health, Sports on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
OK, people, we are making it into mainstream America. How exciting is this? The Wall Street Journal is reporting on a new study that only 2 – 3% of preschoolers spend their day playing. The problem with this? Kids learn through play. When kids play, they’re not wasting their time. They’re learning everything from motor [...]
‘Not a single onesie in all of humankind had a little girl and an airplane on it’
Posted in Body image, Cool and radical girls, Education, Health, Most girlpower *GGG*, Parenting, ReelGirl recommends, Sexuality, tagged Achilles Effect, Animal Planet, Butterfly Effect, Collective Shout, Crystal Smith, Diego, Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Jackson Katz, Mamafesto, Melissa Wardy, Operation Transformation, Peggy Orenstein, Pigtail Pals, Pink Stinks, Princess Free Zone, SciGirls, Scooby-Doo, Shaping Youth, SPARK summit, Wild Kratts, Word World on October 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
After JCPenney’s “I’m too pretty to do my homework so my brother had to do it for me,” shirt for girls incited a protest that went viral, Pigtail Pals, a site that creates clothing empowering to girls, put out a best-selling shirt that reads “Pretty’s got nothing to do with it.” Now Reel Girl talks [...]
Sexism 101
Posted in Education, Statistics, tagged Duke University, frat party on September 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the New York Times, reporter Lisa Belkin writes about sexism at Duke University: AT Duke University last fall, members of the Sigma Nu fraternity e-mailed 300 of their female classmates about an off-campus Halloween party. “Hey Ladies,” the invitation leered, complete with a misspelling, “Whether your dressing up as a slutty nurse, a slutty doctor, a [...]
