Friday, March 3, 2017

The Brawny Man Is The Brawny Woman For Women's History Month

Brawny is ringing in Women’s History Month by declaring (again) that #StrengthHasNoGender. 


The brand’s latest ad campaign highlights groundbreaking women in history and also focuses specifically on four inspiring women in STEM. This is the campaign’s second iteration, which was launched...

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Happy Women's Pay Day - The Day The Average Woman Starts Getting Paid Compared To The Average Man

Next week sees International Women’s Day being celebrated around the world. As women we’ve come so far in achieving equality in the workplace and in wider society. But sadly we’ve still got a lot of work to do when it comes to tackling the gender pay gap. New research...

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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Girls' Education Is Key To Fighting Global Poverty

Whether you go to school should not depend on your gender. Yet for 130million girls around the world, being female means they miss out on an education.


The number of girls denied basic schooling is staggering – they would make up the tenth largest country in terms of...

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71 Powerful Photos Of Women Protesting Throughout American History

Universal History Archive via Getty Images


Two Garment Workers Picketing, circa 1909.








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America suffragette parade in New York circa 1912.








Chicago History Museum via Getty Images


Mrs Raymond Robbins and a group of women suffragists in...

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Rihanna Accepts Harvard's Humanitarian Award Like The Total Boss She Is

As Elle Woods once said, “What, like it’s hard?”


The year 2017 turned itself right around when Harvard University selected Rihanna as their Humanitarian of the Year earlier this month. On Tuesday, the “Anti” singer graciously accepted the honor with a touching and hilarious speech in peak...

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Not Everyone Can Name 5 Women Artists, And One Museum Wants To Change That

The prompt seems simple enough ― even a casual fan of art history can conjure the name Frida Kahlo, right? OK, if you’re stumbling already, it probably won’t take you long to remember the name Georgia O’Keeffe. [Pause.] Maybe, if you’re lucky, you’re familiar with Yayoi Kusama, arguably the...

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Why I'm Hopeful About What The Future Holds For Women

I was on a panel event a few weeks ago, and someone asked me how, as a woman in the UK, I thought the election of Donald Trump affected me.


The fact is, Trump’s election doesn’t affect me directly but his rhetoric reverberates around the world. What his presidency is doing...

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