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The Enormous Opportunity In Educating And Empowering Girls | Co.Exist

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Giving young girls an education has such a huge impact in developing countries that you need to see it to believe it. A new film called Girl Rising shows how education affects nine girls from nine countries–with some help from Meryl Streep.

via The Enormous Opportunity In Educating And Empowering Girls | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

CNN will be broadcasting Girl Rising June 16 & June 22. Check out the Girl Rising trailer website.

10×10 (Educate Girls: Change the World) is “a global action campaign for educating girls.” There will be a companion curriculum launched on October 11, 2013, The International Day of the Girl. The curriculum will be free of charge and educators can fill out a form to be notified when the curriculum is available.

There is also the 10×10 Book Club with toolkits for book clubs for two specific books so far (they will be adding more), as well as young adult and middle grade toolkits.

Taylor Stevens: 11 Most Kickass Literary Heroines | Huffington Post Books

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Taylor Stevens: 11 Most Kickass Literary Heroines | Huffington Post Books

Post by the Vanessa Michael Monroe series author Taylor Stevens. What a great topic for a book club or book forum! What is the meaning  and context of kickass? Does kickass necessarily require violent death? Comparing heroines across genres…dystopian, paranormal, historical/literary, mystery, action/adventure and science fiction/fantasy.

The post comments also suggest Lisbeth Salandar from the Dragon Tattoo series, Scarlett O’Hara, Elizabeth I and Paksenarion.

I would like to add Mrs. Amelia Peabody Emerson from Elizabeth Peters’ Amelia Peabody series (Victorian set in London and Egypt), with her trusty steel shaft umbrella and archeological “tool belt.”

Marc Andreessen Speaks At She++ Conference | TechCrunch

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Marc Andreessen Speaks At She++ Conference [Video] | TechCrunch

Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, spoke at the She++ Conference, discussing women in tech, his favorite new technology, and his thoughts on startup culture. TechCrunch. Follow the link to see the presentation.

Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom: Wikipedia and Gender Bias

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Future Librarians for Intellectual Freedom: Wikipedia and Gender Bias

Wikipedia's Gender Gap

No Boys Allowed: Four Coding Schools Just For Girls – ReadWrite

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As the coding education bubble swells, there’s room for some companies to target more specific audiences, including women exclusively. Fifty percent of the female population isn’t exactly a niche group, but it’s not a frequently targeted market in the technology industry, either. 

No Boys Allowed: Four Coding Schools Just For Girls – ReadWrite

The article covers the following organizations:

  • Girl Develop It
  • Black Girls Code
  • Girls Who Code
  • Girls Learning Code/Ladies Learning Code

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Women, Mobility, and Libraries | American Libraries Magazine

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“Long before there were such devices as smartphones and tablets—or personal computing, for that matter—women in librarianship were bringing reading material to people beyond the four walls of a physical library” via Women, Mobility, and Libraries | American Libraries Magazine.

What Women Know about Leadership that Men Don’t – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review

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“An effective modern leader requires a blend of intellectual qualities — the ability to think analytically, strategically and creatively — and emotional ones, including self-awareness, empathy, and humility. In short, great leadership begins with being a whole human being.

I meet far more women with this blend of qualities than I do men, and especially so when it comes to emotional and social intelligence.”

via What Women Know about Leadership that Men Don’t – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.

Fostering Female Technology Leadership in Libraries – The Digital Shift

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Fostering Female Technology Leadership in Libraries – The Digital Shift.