A recent study ranked the worst and the best places to retire for women, and gave Hawaii the top spot and New York the bottom-most. In addition to Hawaii’s general gorgeousness, its great health care services and opportunities for women (not to mention the weather) offset the higher-than-average cost of living enough to keep the island in the No. 1…
An extraordinary student mobilization in the form of March for Our Lives brought hundreds of thousands to the streets of U.S. cities Saturday to demand tougher gun laws, in a muscular display of political determination less than six weeks after the Parkland school massacre. At many of the March for Our Lives events across the United States, speakers reminded the hundreds…
The Women in Science (WiSci) camp aims to close the gender gap through access to education, mentorship opportunities, and leadership training. Girls will participate in hands-on activities to learn about various STEAM topics in a cross-cultural learning environment. STEAM stands for Science Technology Engineering Arts & Design Mathematics. Why focus on STEAM education for girls? Over the past 15 years,…
Today, Google Doodle celebrates the 98th Birthday of Katsuko Saruhashi, a Geochemist. Katsuko Saruhashi turned radioactive fallout into a scientific legacy. Katsuko Saruhashi, whose research helped reveal the insidious spread of radioactive fallout from the US nuclear testing ground in the Pacific. If she were still alive, today would have been her 98th birthday. In 1957, Saruhashi became the first…
Cynthia Nixon Announces Bid to Run for New York Governor. “I love New York, and today, I’m announcing my candidacy for Governor,” Cynthia Nixon tweets. A potential first female Governor in New York history, if she wins. Cynthia Nixon, an education activist better known for her work in “Sex and the City,” announced her candidacy for governor on Twitter on…
Olivier Mukuta: Using Blockchain Technology to Empower Women. Olivier Mukuta and his team were among the winners at the first “blockchain hackathon” co-organized by UN Women and Innovation Norway in July, 2017. Muktua’s team developed ‘VipiCash’, an app that uses blockchain technology to enable secure money transfer among women, so that they can have access and control over their own…
🍃Our #TimeisNow poem, written by Lilian Ajayi-Ore, Founder & CEO of GC4Women.og. A Women’s History Month Poem Written by Lilian Ajayi-Ore. A Poem Titled: Our Time is Now If we only had more time. We would change the feeling of guilt in the pursuit of moving things forward. If we only had more time. We will never miss a beat.…
On record with Aly Raisman, U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist, “I believe that Everyone is a Survivor of something.” On January 19th, 2018, Aly a 3-time U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist added her voice to a chorus of countless other women—who have spoken about the sexual misconduct scandal, the biggest one yet in the sports history. Larry Nassar was sentenced up to 175…
UISEONG, South Korea — Here is an insight into the Garlic Girls at the Winter Olympics: One Tuesday afternoon, townspeople gathered inside the gymnasium here at Uiseong Girls High School to root for the South Korean women’s curling team, whose match against the United States was shown on a big screen as an M.C. leaned into a microphone and…
Sunday night at the Oscars served as a galvanizing moment for women in Hollywood, and how we can chart our own paths going forward. One of Hollywood’s most aggressive advocates for diversity, Ava DuVernay, praised the 90th Oscars as an important marker of change. “Dear @Academy, Inclusion looks good on you,” Ms. DuVernay wrote on Twitter on Sunday night. “Well-done. More…
