Anna Dahlqvist, author of It’s Only Blood, talked to girls in Kenya, and they explained that the first period is seen as a sign that they’re ready to marry. Then, the girls asked Dahlqvist how they could hide their period so that they could delay marriage. “What happens when menstrual shame clashes with poverty?” Dahlqvist […]
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A sign they’re ready to marry
by resolutewoman on April 11, 2019 in change, girls, marriage, Uncategorized
The right to education
by resolutewoman on April 4, 2019 in change, girls, sexism
In Uganda, we found that around 50 percent of girls are missing school several days every month because of their periods, reports Anna Dahlqvist in her book It’s Only Blood. “In studies in which the students explain why they do not go to school, the same reasons are repeated: fear of leakage. The smell. Shame […]
Very bad injustice
by resolutewoman on July 5, 2018 in change, girls, resolute-women
When I attended a Girl Scout book club meeting earlier this summer, we discussed the book Who Was Harriet Tubman? by Yona Zeldis McDonough. We learned that Harriet Tubman had to leave her parents when she was six-years-old because she was “hired out” to work for a weaver. When Harriet dropped the yarn, she was […]
Girls today
by resolutewoman on October 19, 2017 in confidence, girls
Girls in this country are ethnically and racially diverse with half—51 percent—white, 25 percent Hispanic, 14 percent Black, 5 percent Asian, 4 percent multiracial and 1 percent American Indian. Four out of 10 of all the girls, ages 5 to 17, in this country live in families with low-incomes. Girl Scouts is trying to include […]
The work of today
by resolutewoman on October 17, 2017 in girls, resolute-women
“The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers,” said Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts. I just returned from the Girl Scout National Convention, which is held every three years, and I’ll share some Girl Scout news in the next couple of blog posts. –Joy
Malala’s going to Oxford
by resolutewoman on August 31, 2017 in girls, resolute-women
Malala’s going to be an Oxford scholar. The antiquarian print of an Oxford scholar hanging in my office—purchased years ago when I visited England—shows a male student in a red robe. Malala Yousafza, 20 now, doesn’t fit the stereotype of an Oxford scholar or a Muslim young woman. And, she’s not interested in doing what […]
Tell a girl that she is smart
by resolutewoman on February 2, 2017 in girls, sexism
Researchers at New York University asked boys and girls to identify a person who is really, really smart. At age five, children associated being smart with their own gender. But, by six or seven, girls were “significantly less likely” to pick women as being really, really smart. The study suggests that girls often believe that […]
Powerful and valuable
by resolutewoman on November 10, 2016 in girls, resolute-women
Never doubt that you are powerful and valuable, Hillary Clinton told the girls of this country in her speech the day after the 2016 presidential election. We hope every girl was listening. Hillary Clinton said: “I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but someday someone will—and hopefully sooner than […]
We all have felt other
by resolutewoman on May 17, 2016 in book, courage, girls, resolute-women
“Writing in a younger voice allowed me to name the thing without a name,” explained Sandra Cisneros in the introduction to the 10th anniversary edition of her book The House on Mango Street. The book is the story of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. The thing without a name […]
What’s success for a girl?
by resolutewoman on April 28, 2015 in girls
Jennifer Floyd Engel questions how much effect ads that seek to empower girls can have. “We can make 1,000 ads about empowering girls, but until we change what defines success for them, it will be an uphill climb,” Engel, who blogs at blogslikeagirl.tumblr.com, writes in The Dallas Morning News. “Because what we tell girls every, […]
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