Girl Power Word of the Week:

sexism

[noun]

discrimination on the basis of sex, especially as directed against women; attitudes or behavior based on traditional stereotypes of sex or gender roles.

Example: Nancy felt she experienced sexism when the clerk at the hardware store helped all the men before her.

National Women's History Project

Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worth less. -- Myra Pollack Sadker

The National Women's History Project, founded in 1980, is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the diverse and historic accomplishments of women by providing information and educational materials and programs. Over the past 30 years, the NWHP has established itself as the number one resource for information and material about the unfolding roles of women in American history. The NWHP also operates an award-winning web site, which makes information about women available and widely accessible, www.nwhp.org.

Check out their website the next time you have to find a subject for a paper, do research about women's history, or just want to learn something interesting about women who've made a difference!

If you can't make a mistake,

you can't make anything.

Marva Collins, educator

Who are we?

www.girlfuture.com is all about giving girls ages 9-15 a safe place online where you can learn, think, ask questions, and meet other girls dealing with the same issues you’re dealing with. We want to give you the tools to be self-confident, independent, and successful.

What do you like best about going back to school?

e-mail us your answer at question@girlfuture.com -- and then check back to see if we post yours!

Get Real!

Pop Stars and Faux Rebellion

By Tina Vasquez

Being a pop star today seems like a breeze. You don’t need to know how to write a song, play an instrument, or even be able to sing to be considered a musician. Young pop sensations have their songs written for them, their instruments played for them, and their vocals tweaked by producers to sound close to perfect, which may be completely unlike how they actually sound. It seems like all you do need to be a pop star is a pretty face, a nice body, and a killer wardrobe. In other words, if you have the “right look,” then music never really comes into play. We’ve all seen music videos with female singers stomping around, snarling, and belting out lyrics in tattered clothes made by fashion designers with hair that’s messy in just the right way. These women are supposed to represent the rock ‘n’ roll side of the industry. They claim to be rebelling against a cookie-cutter image they can’t relate to, but what if they are still a cookie, just peanut butter instead of chocolate chip?

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Doing It Yourself

Welcome to the Doing It Yourself Blog!

By: Victoria Garcia

My name is Victoria, and I'm going to be writing this blog! Did you know that there are many, many ways to make your own type of media? "Media" is anything that says something to readers. It can be ...

Ad Analysis

London Foggy, with a Chance of Rain

By: Liz Vogtsberger

Have you ever wondered why a clothing company would try to sell its clothes by putting them on a model who’s taking them off? Does this strategy make any sense? Have you ever heard the phrase “sex s ...

Ad Analysis

DOUBLE TAKE…share, discuss, decipher

By: Liz Vogtsberger

Hello! My name is Liz, and I’m pleased to welcome you to “Double Take,” the girlfuture.com blog about images of girls and women in popular culture. Typically, the phrase “double take” describes a per ...

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