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My annual plea to the girls in my fifth grade class: Maintain your advantage over the boys. Rule the world.

By Matthew Dicks | September 24, 2014 | Comments Off on My annual plea to the girls in my fifth grade class: Maintain your advantage over the boys. Rule the world.

On Friday, Hillary Clinton  pledged to work to get all the female Democratic candidates on the ballot elected in November. “I can’t think of a better way to make the House work again than electing every woman on the ballot,” Clinton told the Democratic Women’s Leadership Forum. “There are ten women running for the Senate,…

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The ad has good intentions, but it doesn’t depict reality, and that could be more damaging to girls than no ad at all.

By Matthew Dicks | June 30, 2014 | Comments Off on The ad has good intentions, but it doesn’t depict reality, and that could be more damaging to girls than no ad at all.

This new Verizon-sponsored ad, which was made in conjunction with Makers to show how parents unintentionally steer their daughters away from science and math, is receiving a lot of praise for the way it doesn’t focus solely on female body and beauty issues, as well as its willingness to shine the light on the role…

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