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With the hashtag #SheWillBe, the new initiative focuses on improving young women’s access to jobs, health care and education, taking into account how race, gender and sexual identity differently impact women.
Selling Girl Scouts cookies is more than a fundraiser; it shows women how to become strong leaders, says Kathy Cloninger in this excerpt from her new book “Tough Cookies: Leadership Lessons from 100 Years of the Girl Scouts.”
At a mass-matchmaking session in Hangzhou, China, some parents of unmarried, well-educated women express desperation at their “pickiness.” One single woman says she’d like to be married, but her work gives her a strong “inner universe.”
Libyans have lived under a dictatorship for over 40 years and the effort to think and act freely doesn’t come easily. In Benghazi, a small women-led group called Express is waging a psycho-social effort to “Get Rid of the Gadhafi Inside You.”
Bahrain’s revolution is muffled by a combination of Saudi influence and U.S. reticence. Several young women–from both inside and outside the troubled kingdom–are overcoming the forces of silence.
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J.K. Rowling’s book series has its final movie opening and now the author joins Oprah in the small ranks of self-made female tycoons. These may be two fairytale endings, but Rowling’s Hermione is a real boon to little girls.
A holistic healing and training center that provides a beacon of hope to young women in the South Bronx is in trouble. Private funding has dried up and volunteers are struggling to keep it going.
The dinners and conferences of the National Council for Research on Women are where veteran crusaders mix and mingle. Now they’re hosting two initiatives to bring younger women into the fold.
For some young women the DIY movement offers a way to synthesize a resurgent interest in domestic arts into a new brand of feminism and participate in a broad, unstructured resistance to the mass-marketing of products and policies.
Young people are being cued to fear and demean older women, through a public war on elders in general, writes Margaret Morganroth Gullette. The realization put a sour note on otherwise sweet plans for her 65th birthday.