Inspiring Girls to Lead Governments

by | Feb 1, 2010 | Girls, Government

The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania is sponsoring a  program called “GirlGov,” which is designed to encourage young women and girls to get involved in politics.  The program will send 16 girls, ages 13 through 17, to the state capital to shadow...

Remembering the Massacre at Polytechnique

by | Dec 11, 2009 | Girls

Twenty years ago this week—December 6, 1989—Mark Lépine shot or stabbed 27 engineering students, mostly women, at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal after accusing them of being feminists. Of the 14 students who died, all were women. December 6 is now National Violence...

Title IX Dad

by | Nov 11, 2009 | Equality, Girls, Sports, Title IX

“It still brings a tear to my eye,” writes Mark Schmitt, discussing how moving the sight of his daughter playing Little League is. “I didn’t expect to be much of a Little League dad — I never played organized baseball myself and don’t have much of a...
Skip to content