Click here to view original web page at www.washingtonpost.com Stephanie Hinze holds her son Harrison, 2, at home in Gainesville, Ga. Hinze, who suffers from spina bifida, is five months pregnant with her third child. (Elijah Nouvelage for The Washington Post) For two years, a group of world-class scientists pitched their idea for a hot […]
Intersectionality: An Invitation For Action On International Women’s Day And Beyond
Click here to view original web page at www.forbes.com The concept of intersectionality, which recognizes the unique experiences of women of color, is critical to achieving gender equity for all women Getty The 2019 International Women’s Day asks a necessary and provocative question: How can we move toward a more gender-balanced world? More than a […]
Library of Congress chooses Rochester company to tell story of women’s suffrage
Click here to view original web page at www.rochesterfirst.com Video Rochester, NY (WROC-TV) – From 1850 through her death in 1906, from her home in Rochester, New York and in her travels across the country, Susan B. Anthony helped lead the fight for women’s rights. Now a Rochester company is set to tell this story […]
How fearless girls become fearful women
Click here to view original web page at www.theage.com.au We all know a fearless girl, just like the one cast in bronze, staring down the charging Wall Street bull, hands on hips; clear-eyed, full heart, couldn’t possibly lose. Or if we don’t know one now, we probably did once. Many of us were one – […]
Quebec church records show grandmothers were ‘essential to survival’ in early days of New France
Click here to view original web page at www.cbc.ca R. Outhet and his family posed for this photo in Montreal in 1865. A new study exploring the ‘grandmother effect’ concludes New France grew exponentially in the pre-industrial era, partly because of the proximity of mothers to their daughters’ growing families. (McCord Museum) Researchers drawing from […]
The Gendered Brain by Gina Rippon review – exposing a myth
Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com You might recognise Gina Rippon as the expert from BBC2’s No More Boys and Girls – a series which showed that, by the age of seven, girls hugely underestimate their own abilities, boys often don’t have the words to describe their feelings and that these trends […]