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Why is Teenage Pregnancy Increasing?
We celebrated the 50th anniversary of the pill recently. In a New York Times Op-ed on Sunday, April 25, titled, “Promises the Pill Could Never Keep,” Elaine Tyler May goes as far to say that, “women no longer need to choose between having a family and a career.” But can we say this for all [...]
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Op-Ed in SF Chronicle!
My piece from earlier this week got picked up by the SF Chronicle, and is titled, “Why did it take so long for a woman to win best director?“!
We can gain more exposure and increase our chance to do this kind of advocacy with a bit of your help. The Chronicle counts clicks, emails, shares, comments and [...]
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Why Support American Girls? Part I: The Oscars, Glass Ceilings, and Girls
Kathryn Bigelow is the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. This is no doubt a great accomplishment. People are starting to say that Kathryn Bigelow has broken a glass ceiling for women. However, it is all too easy for people to believe discrimination no longer exists when one exceptional individual rises to [...]
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Setting the Stage for the Girl Effect at the World Economic Forum, 2010
As I mentioned earlier in this blog, “The Girl Effect,” or the idea that investing in girls internationally is the key to economic empowerment and social change, is really gaining momentum in international development talks and in the media, especially because of national best sellers like Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn’s “Half of the Sky”. [...]
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Hillary Clinton on Women and Girls
In a speech today about international development issues, Hillary Clinton specifically emphasizes the importance of investing in women and girls in Third World countries. What do you think? And how can we use these strategies to promote investing in girls in the US?
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Creating “The Girl Effect” for Girls in the SF Bay Area
I stumbled upon this amazing video that Kiva.org is promoting called The Girl Effect, which shows in simple terms why investing in girls is the key to social change and empowerment globally. If we were to create our own “Girl Effect” for girls in the SF Bay Area (and nationally), what would we say? We [...]
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Welcome to our new website!
Over the last few years many of our fellowship girls and grantee organizations have wanted the Eva Gunther Foundation to update the website to be more interactive and provide more resources. We heard you and are happy to launch our new, improved website! Here you can find everything that was here before and then some, [...]
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Op-ed Published on Alternet!