The Resolute Woman

Category: girls

  • Malala and Gabrielle

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    Malala Yousafzai, who demanded that girls be allowed to get an education, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan in 2012. Gabrielle Giffords, a retired member of the U.S. House of Representatives, was shot in a Safeway parking lot in Arizona in 2011. “Malala is a testament that women everywhere will…

  • Brainy boys and fat girls

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    “More than a decade into the 21st century, we would like to think that American parents have similar standards and similar dreams for their sons and daughters,” writes Seth Stephens-Davidowitz in the January 26, 2014, issue of The Dallas Morning News. A contributing writer for The New York Times, he recently received a Ph.D. in…

  • Clever and courageous girls

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    I just bought two of my friends—both girls, one in the second grade and the other in the fourth grade—a copy of Bruce Lansky’s book The Royal Joust, 10 Inspiring Stories about Clever and Courageous Girls from around the World. In the introduction to the book, Lansky writes, “If you’re curious about why I decided…

  • Ban bossy!

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    Sheryl Sandberg, author of Lean In and Facebook COO, and Anna Maria Chavez, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, both remember being called “bossy” when they were girls. The two women recently wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal stressing that those words still tell girls: “Keep your voice down. Don’t raise your…

  • Sing your song

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    It was big news. In Canterbury, England, in the Canterbury Cathedral, where boys’ choirs have sung for more than 1,000 years, a choir of 16 girls was singing for the first time, The Dallas Morning News reported in its January 24, 2014, issue. A female choir “Is a natural development” that adds “diversity and richness”…

  • Tell every girl you know

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    Nicole Small, chief executive officer at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, has an important message. • Being a girl is great. • Girls are good at math. • Being a Girl Scout is amazing. “Tell every girl you know,” Small instructed the audience at the recent Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas…

  • Helping girls get an education

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    At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, Malala, a 15-year-old from Pakistan, is fighting for her life. We’ve all heard how gunmen shot her in the head and neck because she advocated for education for girls. In Pakistan, children now proudly wear “I am Malala” t-shirts. The attack, says former British prime minister Gordon…

  • How to help girls become leaders

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    Only 17 percent of United States senators, representatives and governors are women. Only 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women, and women make up only 15 percent of corporate boards. Women account for less than 20 percent of the bachelor’s degrees in engineering, computer science and physics. What’s even more discouraging is this statistic:…

  • Blessed with generosity?

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    Remember Anne Frank’s statement from her diary: “I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Roger Rosenblatt, in an essay in the book Time/CBS News People of the Century, comments: “She was not simply born blessed with generosity; she struggled toward it by way of self-doubt, impatience, rage, ennui—all…

  • Courage, confidence and character

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    If you’re a Girl Scout or a Girl Scout leader, you know about courage, confidence and character. The mission of the Girl Scout movement today is to build “girls of courage, confidence and character.” We know that girls today face many challenges, said Colleen Walker, CEO of Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas, on April 16,…