Teen Voices
SPARK Puts ‘Women on the Map’
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A new interactive map by SPARK Movement gives women their due place in history. Writer Ajaita Saini tells readers how they can get involved and about her favorite unsung women heros.
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SPARK is a girl-fueled activist movement to demand an end to the sexualization of women and girls in media. We train girls around the world to be activists, organizers, and leaders in the fight against commodified, sexualized images of girls in media, and to support the development of girls’ healthy sexuality and self-esteem.
A new interactive map by SPARK Movement gives women their due place in history. Writer Ajaita Saini tells readers how they can get involved and about her favorite unsung women heros.
The stereotypes that often keep girls away from computer science, according to two recent University of Washington studies, didn’t stop SPARK writer Ajaita Saini from enrolling in a STEM-based high school. However, she wasn’t prepared for the ignorance of her male classmates and apathy of her peers.
Radio shows that portray girls talking to boys in public is one way to change the culture of girls discrimination in India, according to a BBC report that looks at how the media could support girls rights in the Southern Hemisphere. SPARK Movement writer Elisabed Gedevanishvili provides a summary of the document.
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