Women Speaking: Quotes, Music, Tales

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Oh Scotland!

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And they say women are emotional. Ha! Women kick ass.

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Always one of my wcw. Character and writer/producer/actress. Edina and Jennifer.

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KStew supporting women's health care.

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A wonderful, wide-ranging interview with trailblazing astronomer Vera Rubin, who confirmed the existence of dark matter and who turns 88 today. In 1965, Rubin broke the glass ceiling in astronomy by becoming the first woman permitted to observe at the prestigious Palomar Observatory, home to the most powerful telescopes at the time.

Also see her abiding wisdom on obsessiveness and minimizing obstacles. 

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Today in female heroes / general life goals. -Ariel

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Spice Girls ‘Wannabe’ Wants To Be An Anthem For Girl Power

What do girls want? What do they really, really want?

That’s the topic of the 1996 song “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls, which was definitely aimed at would-be boyfriends (“get your act together we could be just fine”).

Now the song is back with a new message. The U.N.’s Project Everyone — a group founded by filmmaker Richard “Love Actually” Curtis — has put out a video with the original recording but a new girl power emphasis. In the video, British girl group M.O, Canadian YouTube star Taylor Hatala, Nigerian-British singer Seyi Shay and Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez lip sync and dance to the song against backdrops with signs calling for “equal pay” and an end to violence against women.

The video is part of the Global Goals campaign, a U.N. initiative to promote the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.

The 21st century “Wannabe” is nearing a million views on YouTube, where the accompanying blurb urges viewers to share a photo with a sign stating “what YOU really, really want for girls and women.”

We wanted to know how 21st century girls — none of whom were born when the song first came out — reacted to the video. We also asked what they really, really want for the women of the world.

Read the girls’ thoughts here 

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So much girl power! -Emily

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Super.

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Meet Dr. Nadine Caron, Canada's first female First Nations surgeon

As the first female Indigenous woman to graduate from UBC's medical school, Dr. Nadine Caron says there's so much to be done to ensure Canada's Aboriginal people get the health care they need. And she knows how hard it can be from her own experience.

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I just want [young girls and boys] growing up thinking that learning about women in these fields is normal, that there’s nothing revolutionary about having a book all about women in science.

Rachel Ignotofsky, illustrator. Her new book is a clever introduction to women scientists through history, starting with the ancient polymath Hypatia. (via sciencefriday)

Knowledge is power.

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Dr. Jedidah Isler is a native of Virginia Beach, VA and a lifetime lover of the night sky. A graduate of the Dozoretz National Institute for Mathematics and Applied Sciences (DNIMAS) program at Norfolk State University, Dr. Isler later received a Masters in Physics as part of the initial cohort in the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to Ph.D. Bridge Program, a pioneering effort to expand access to advanced STEM degrees for students of color. Dr. Isler continued her educational pursuits at Yale University, where her research in astrophysics was supported by nationally competitive fellowships from NASA, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Ford Foundation. In 2014, Dr. Isler became the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Yale, completing an award-winning study that examines the physics of particle jets emanating from supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. She is presently an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University and participates in the Future Faculty Leader program at Harvard University’s Center for Astrophysics.

Throughout her career, Dr. Isler has remained a fierce advocate for the inclusion and empowerment of students from underrepresented backgrounds in the sciences. She has worked with numerous museums, libraries, observatories, and schools across the country on outreach and engagement efforts designed to inspire a new generation of STEM leaders and has established herself as an inspirational voice championing access in the field of Astrophysics and in science education.

Biography via http://www.jedidahislerphd.com/

Photo Credit: jedidahislerphd / Twitter

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Show young girls and women they can succeed in the STEM fields.

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Contrary to all received wisdom, women are more logical and less emotional than men. Women do cry more easily…but life on this planet isn’t threatened by women’s tears; nor does that brimming salty fluid cause poverty, drain public coffers, ruin reputations, impose forced intimacies, slay children, torture helpless people, or reduce cities to rubble…[These] result from men’s emotions, which are a constant distraction to them.

Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy By Melvin Konner (via uninucleus)

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3 Women Scientists Whose Discoveries Were Credited to Men

Here's a look at three women scientists who were trailblazers during a time when men dominated the field of science.

And on and on it goes. Kudos to the women and men working to shed light on these brilliant women, women who were robbed of the status and glory their work deserved.

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Meet the teen who just won $150,000 for inventing a device to diagnose lung disease

She hopes to save lives in the developing world.

“The 17-year-old built her device out of $35 worth of basic electronics, but it is as accurate as hospital-grade versions that cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars. She hopes it will save lives in developing countries where such a device — called a spirometer — might otherwise be inaccessible.”

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13 patriarchy-busting reasons to feel proud AND optimistic on International Women's Day.

The good, the great, and the downright empowering.

March 8 is International Women’s Day: one day in 365 where we celebrate the achievements and aspirations of the gender that makes up half of the human population of our planet.

We also get a hashtag.

This year, when it seems like every second headline is filled with bad news for women, it is easy to dismiss International Women’s Day as meaningless. After all, we’ve been celebrating a form of itsince at least 1909, and we’re still justifying why women should be allowed to bust ghosts. 

Even with great leaps forward, there are so, so many more ways women are still unequal: We still make, on average, 78 cents for every dollar a man makes. We are less likely to become CEOs. We are, in some U.S. states, rapidly seeing male politicians restrict our ability to make our own reproductive health choices. We need politicians and law enforcement to get serious about justice for victims of violence and rape, and we need to be ready to stand in our power and replace them if they won’t stand up for us.

And, let’s be really real — white feminists like me are only just starting to recognize the ways fighting for feminist equality can marginalize women of color, and we’re not doing nearly enough to address it. 

Women deserve more than a day, a week, or even a month of recognition for us to collectively get closer to where we should rightfully be.

But all that said, I’m still celebrating International Women’s Day today. Because the way I see it, making a big-ass deal out of the one day we do get is just another way to remind everyone that we deserve so much more.

Here are 13 reasons to feel proud and optimistic while crushing the patriarchy this International Women’s Day. 

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Its pretty incredible how accurate the science of astrophysics has gotten. New Horizons actually arrived 72 seconds early after travelling for almost 10 years straight to its destination.

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Hello! The person who calculated the arrival time of New Horizons was Yanping Guo, mission design leader and one of the women who made up 25% of the New Horizons team. She configured the entire mission trajectory, including Jupiter and Pluto flybys. 

Women’s contribution to the sciences has a long history of being erased, so let’s not forget the women who made New Horizons possible! 

Kneeling from left to right: Amy Shira Teitel, Cindy Conrad, Sarah Hamilton, Allisa Earle, Leslie Young, Melissa Jones, Katie Bechtold, Becca Sepan, Kelsi Singer, Amanda Zangari, Coralie Jackman, Helen Hart. Standing, from left to right: Fran Bagenal, Ann Harch, Jillian Redfern, Tiffany Finley, Heather Elliot, Nicole Martin, Yanping Guo, Cathy Olkin, Valerie Mallder, Rayna Tedford, Silvia Protopapa, Martha Kusterer, Kim Ennico, Ann Verbiscer, Bonnie Buratti, Sarah Bucior, Veronica Bray, Emma Birath, Carly Howett, Alice Bowman. Not pictured: Priya Dharmavaram, Sarah Flanigan, Debi Rose, Sheila Zurvalec, Adriana Ocampo, Jo-Anne Kierzkowski.

(Credit: Michael Soluri for image)

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