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Bahá’í Wins Dissertation Award

Bahá’í Wins Dissertation Award

Shabnam Raayai, a brilliant Iranian Bahá'í, who was expelled from Iran's best engineering university because she was a Bahá'í, was accepted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. She then entered Harvard...

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Celebrating GirlRising.org

Celebrating GirlRising.org

The winners of the Girl Rising Creative Challenge have been announced. There were 882 entries from 110 countries. While there were only 12 winners, each of the 882 entries showed that the world will be in a better place if the obsolete patriarchy can be nudged aside...

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Ethiopia Elects First Woman President

Ethiopia Elects First Woman President

On October 20, 2018, Ethiopia elected Sahle-Work Zewde as their first female president. Her appointment followed a cabinet restructuring in which women were appointed to half of the ministerial positions, including the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Peace....

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Great 19th Century Women Photographers

Great 19th Century Women Photographers

The 19th century wasn't easy for photographers. The cameras were huge and the processing was messy and difficult. It would be 150 years before digital photography would make photographs easy and ubiquitous. In spite of the difficulty of the early processes, women like...

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The Poetry of Mahvash Sabet

The Poetry of Mahvash Sabet

Mahvash Sabet is free now. It takes a special person to weather ten years of torture in an Iranian prison. Mahvash Sabet was a teacher and principal who was fired for being a Bahá'í. Then she helped start an online school because Bahá'í students were not allowed to...

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A 7-year-old Girl and Your Heartbeat

A 7-year-old Girl and Your Heartbeat

If you ever wondered how the electrical signals make your heart beat, let this young lady explain it to you. Amoy Antunet wants to be a neuroscientist or a neurosurgeon. She is passionately interested in science.   Ms. Antunet has several videos on YouTube that...

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Middle-school Girl Solves Part of Flint’s Water Problem

Middle-school Girl Solves Part of Flint’s Water Problem

Flint Michigan is plagued with lead in city's drinking water. It's a long, sad story, but the city's water has made, and is still making, people very sick. An 11-year-old girl has developed a device that can instantly tell whether water contains lead pollution. Now,...

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Why Women Succeed in Business

Why Women Succeed in Business

Dottie DeHart published a fascinating article in TidewaterWomen.com in which she lists several reasons why women succeed. We all know that women have advantages over their male counterparts, but I hadn't seen them so clearly enumerated before. With colleges and...

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GRLZ Radio: a fresh voice

GRLZ Radio: a fresh voice

I was so excited to read about this new radio station--GRLZ--in the Fall 2017 issue of YES! magazine. See GRLZradio.org or http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/just-transition. I was pleased that GRLZradio has a blog where individual young women write about their lives....

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I'm excited about what will happen to our planet over the next 1000 years. Women will be behind most of the good things. I'm the father of three wonderful women, the grandfather of one woman, and the great-grandfather of a little girl who will grow up in a world that women will help to shape. I'm delighted to be part of the conversation as the planet evolves into one of compassion and equity.

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