When Women Speak

18/05/2022

Don't be fooled 😏

11/05/2022

Normalize not needing to "earn" a break

09/05/2022

Take a moment to listen to this truth, and then set your intentions for the week

08/05/2022

Celebrating all you moms, and mother figures, on this beautiful day.

08/05/2022

8. Try An ‘Amplification’ Strategy

Apply the strategy that women staffers adopted after President Obama took office. They called it “amplification.” When a woman spoke, the others would repeat the key point, crediting its author.

15 Ways Executive Women Can Help Other Women Move Into The C-Suite

Women who have already moved into the C-suite are in a unique position to help those who are still climbing the corporate ladder reach their goals for advancing in their careers.

05/05/2022

Celebrate your wins from the week in community & network with other women business owners. Bring your business best friend and your beverage of choice!

Don't build your business alone. Build in Community.

Date: May 6th
Time: 4p-5p
Location: Zoom
Cost: Free
Register:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Happy Hour. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

27/04/2022

There is no other rule than this. You've been given a unique voice for a reason. Honor it by being true to it.

19/04/2022

The world is noisy, the online world even more so.
Close your eyes.
Take a breath.
Find your voice,
and speak from the heart.

12/04/2022

Tell your story.

11/04/2022

Pass it on

11/04/2022

Have you ever wished you had your own advisory board?
Now you do.
Join us in The Boardroom
Launching May 1

You've joined the large and crowded Facebook groups, you've done the challenges that inspire but do not give action plans (and are a week-long sales pitch), and you've taken webinars and masterminds that didn't give enough substance.

08/04/2022

Keep going

08/04/2022

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson made history today. Judge Jackson is a hero to so many Americans across our country. She will be the first Black woman on the highest court in the land.

07/04/2022

Join us in The Boardroom - launching on April 10th
https://www.whenwomenspeakboardroom.com/

04/04/2022

Season 2 of the podcast launches this week 🥳
What stories do you want to see us bring forward this season?

21/03/2022

Oh, this is going to be good....

21/03/2022

What are you speaking into existence in your life?

26/10/2021

"He was taken seriously. Whereas with me, I was on the doctor's radar from the age of 16.

"Bluntly, it took so long for me to be diagnosed because I'm a woman."

At least tens of thousands in the UK, it is estimated, are not receiving the help they need.

25/10/2021

For decades, women were leaders in computer science but then, in 1984, their representation in the field dropped dramatically -- in a way unseen in any other scientific or technical field. In an excellent segment on NPR's Planet Money, Caitlin Kenney and Steve Henn unravel the mystery of what happened to cause women to drop out of computer science in astounding numbers. And, what they discover offers valuable insight on how gender stereotypes, especially as they pertain to children's toys and marketing, can have far-reaching and unforeseen effects.

The 15-minute podcast is a must hear to truly understand what happened during this period but, in a nutshell, the Planet Money team determined that it was in the early 1980s that the narrative first emerged that computers are for boys. The first personal computers weren't much more than toys and they were marketed almost exclusively to boys and men. Computer geek culture also began to emerge during this period and TV shows, movies, and video games all reaffirmed that computers were the domain of boys.

By 1984, the first generation of students who could have had a home computer entered college. Research at the time found parents were much more likely to buy computers for boys than girls and many more boys had experience programming prior to entering college. As a result, many young women discovered that they were already significantly behind their male peers from day one and, often facing discouragement from their fellow students and professors alike, women left computer science programs in droves.

Interestingly, prior to the introduction of the home computer and the gendered marketing of it as a 'boy' device, women were very active in the field and saw a sharp increase in their numbers between 1970 and 1984. Their representation in the field peaked in 1984 when 37% of computer science degrees were awarded to women; by 2011, according to the Computing Research Association, that number fell to 12%.

The segment also explores successful efforts at several elite computer sciences programs, such as those at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvey Mudd College, to combat sexism in the field and to turn this trend around. While such initiatives are encouraging, there is still significant progress that needs to be made: a study in 2016 by the Institution for Engineering and Technology found that toys with a technology, science, or math focus are still three times more likely to be targeted at boys than girls even today. To listen to "When Women Stopped Coding" on NPR, visit http://n.pr/1rOiDB6

For adult readers who would like to learn more about the unsung female heroes who built the internet, we highly recommend "Broad Band" at https://www.amightygirl.com/broad-band

To introduce kids to the brilliant women who programmed the world's first all-electronic computer, we recommend the chapter book "Women Who Launched The Computer Age" for ages 6 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/women-launched-computer-age) and the picture book "How a Team of Women Coded the Future" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/instructions-not-included)

For an inspiring book about pioneering women in technology - which includes a variety of hands-on STEM projects that kids can try at home - we highly recommend "Gutsy Girls Go for Science: Programmers" for ages 8 to 11 at https://www.amightygirl.com/gutsy-girls-programmers

For an excellent picture book about the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, we highly recommend “Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code” for ages 5 to 9 at https://www.amightygirl.com/hopper-queen-of-code

To introduce children to the woman who invented the first computer program, Ada Lovelace, check out "Ada Lovelace" for ages 5 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/ada-lovelace-little-people-big-dreams) and “Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine” for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/ada-lovelace-thinking-machine)

For fun ways to spark your Mighty Girl's interest in programming, we recommend Coding Critters for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/coding-critters) and Botley the Coding Robot for ages 5 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/botley)

And for more programming toys and kits for all ages, visit our blog post: "Code Like A Mighty Girl: 50 Toys & Books To Inspire Mighty Girl Coders" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=16049

14/09/2021

At the age of 10, while visiting her grandmother, a friend “dared” her to walk over to the side of town where Black residents lived.

There, she saw an entirely different world than the one she knew, according to writer Kaleena Fraga. “I could see with my own eyes the difference between the Black school and the white school,” she said. “That really struck me.”

After seeing the inequalities, she vowed then to make a difference.

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You may have seen her images floating around on social media.

One of the images is a mugshot, showing a young, white woman. She was 19 at the time. She didn’t look like she belonged in prison, but there she was, on Death Row, subjected to physical and psychological abuse at a high-security prison.

Another iconic image shows the segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter, where a group of men is pouring sugar, ketchup, and mustard over the heads of demonstrators. The protesters were doused in food, cut with broken glass, hit with brass knuckles, and burned with ci******es, while the police stood by.

She recalled, “They called me ‘race traitor.’”

Like John Lewis, she always seemed to be getting in “good trouble.”

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland is a Civil Rights Icon who participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations by the time she was 23 years old,” according to the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation.

“She was a Freedom Rider, a participant in the Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, the March on Washington, the Meredith March and the Selma to Montgomery March. For her actions she was disowned by her family, attacked, shot at, cursed at, put on death row and hunted down by the Klan for ex*****on. Her path has crossed with some of the biggest names in the Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, Diane Nash and Julian Bond.”

It was as a Freedom Rider that she was imprisoned for refusing to leave a bus waiting area. She and others were taken to Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi, a jail in the Delta, not far from where Emmett Till had been murdered.

“Since there was no women’s wing of the prison then, she was housed on death row for two months and kept in a cramped, segregated cell with 17 other women,” according to the Arlington Public Library.

In May 1963, Mulholland, John Salter, and Anne Moody participated at the Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in downtown Jackson. For three hours, they were subjected to what is often considered the most violent of the sit-ins.

She and four other activists were also stopped by the K*K as they left Canton, Mississippi. The Klansmen surrounded the car and beat the driver. “That night on the road out of Canton,” Mulholland said, “we were all convinced that it was the end.”

“Luckily Mulholland and her friends were able to escape, but not without some consequence,” according to the National Museum of American History. “An informant within the K*K later confirmed that their assailants had been ordered to kill them and because they weren’t successful, the Klansmen killed three other civil rights workers: Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman.”

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Joan Trumpauer was born on Sept. 14, 1941, and spent her childhood in the segregated city of Arlington, Virginia.

“Her mother, a segregationist from Georgia, descended from enslavers,” according to writer Jasmine Daniel. “Despite this, Mulholland developed a keen awareness of the systemic racism that surrounded her daily life and a desire to stop it. She secretly attended integrated Bible studies that expanded her worldview and solidified for her the belief that all people are “God’s children.”

She would become a Freedom Rider, knowing full well her actions could lead to being assaulted, arrested or, at worst, killed.

She was featured in the PBS documentary, “Freedom Riders”, as well as an award-winning documentary produced by her son, Loki Mulholland, entitled “An Ordinary Hero: The True Story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (2013).

She is a recipient of the 2015 National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award.

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Today, at the age of 80, she’s still fighting for equal rights, wrote Fraga.

In an interview Aug 24, 2021, she said, “Part of the reason why we still speak today is because many can’t, they were killed and some were permanently damaged from the movement.”

In 2014, she founded the Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation, dedicated to involving new generations in activism and social justice.

The goal for the foundation is to provide learning materials for schools to educate the students on the part of American history that is often "misunderstood or skipped over".

“Racism is a learned behavior. Adults and children alike can benefit from a change in perspective and an increased awareness of the past,” according to the Foundation.

“I want to show the younger folks that you can do something that will have an effect,” she said in 2015. “It’s just a matter of starting.”

“Even if it’s no more than speaking up a little bit when someone says something you know is wrong. If you see a problem in your own place, do something."

"If it’s, say, a Muslim woman being hassled for wearing a hijab, walk with her, befriend her,” she said. "When you see racism or discrimination of any sort, speak up.”

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“Anyone can make a difference,” she said. “It doesn’t matter how old or young you are. Find a problem, get some friends together, and go fix it. Remember, you don’t have to change the world … just change your world.”

~ jsr

For more information:
https://joantrumpauermulholland.org/?fbclid=IwAR3AtJO8eMVqY5TALmf4pQFdXkb6NklJWBWxzLkuG_P1rs_Wful_CRyDYEE

13/09/2021

"Standing onstage in front of loads of people on a national pageant platform is going to be really scary. But I know after the competition I'm going to feel really good about myself, regardless of if I win or not.

"We owe it to the next generation to say it's okay to be you," she added.

Elle Seline hopes to inspire the next generation to be more comfortable in their own skin.

13/09/2021

Repost . This!
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On the easternmost corner of ground zero on the afternoon of September 11, 2001, Brenda Berkman and a small group of her fellow firefighters stood before a wall of flames and dust.⁠
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She never watched the media coverage of the attacks in the weeks that followed. So she was surprised when she started getting phone calls from other women firefighters she knew across the country. ⁠
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What is going on in New York? they asked her. There were no women — not just women firefighters, but no women first responders at all — in the coverage of the day, though they knew women, including Berkman, had been there. ⁠
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The focus of the coverage at the time was on the heroism of the firemen and policemen. Women were only spotlighted as widows or nurses, another example of how women are often erased from history, Berkman said.⁠
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But she wasn’t sure how she could broach the subject. At the time, there was a culture of unity among the 9/11 first responders. Criticizing might be deemed unpatriotic. ⁠
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But, she remembers thinking: “What’s more patriotic than to point out that everyone in the United States, including the women and people of color and LGBT community, that they’re all doing the right thing — everyone is pulling together, everyone is making sacrifices?” Berkman, 69, told The 19th ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11. ⁠
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In the years since she retired as a captain in 2006, much of Berkman’s work has been consumed by ensuring that women continue to be part of the narrative — the true narrative — of what really happened that day on ground zero.⁠
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📄 Read more about Berkman’s work to recognize the women first responders of 9/11 on 19thnews.org or 🔗 click the link in bio.

10/08/2021

28/07/2021

All of this.

20/07/2021

Simone Biles is widely expected to smash a long-standing record at the Tokyo Summer Olympics by surpassing Larisa Latynina's record of 32 combined world championship and Olympic medals. Latynina, a former Soviet gymnast, set the 56-year-old record at competitions between 1956 and 1964 and she still holds the record for the most Olympic gold medals by a gymnast, male or female, with nine. Biles currently has 30 combined medals and is favored to add several medals to her collection at this year's Games, which open on Friday. Olympic Champion Mary Lou Retton has called the Columbus, Ohio native the "greatest gymnast ever."

To introduce kids to this groundbreaking gymnast, we recommend "Trailblazers: Simone Biles" for ages 7 to 10 at https://www.amightygirl.com/trailblazers-simone-biles

For tweens and teens, we highly recommend her memoir "Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance" for ages 12 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/courage-to-soar

Simone Biles is also featured in multiple anthologies starring female athletes, including "She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-in-sports), "We Got Game! 35 Female Athletes Who Changed The World" for ages 8 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/we-got-game), and "Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win" for ages 9 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/women-in-sports)

For children's books about female Olympians in a variety of sports, visit our new blog post "30 Children's Books About Female Olympians" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=34101

To introduce children to another record-setting gymnast, Nadia Comăneci -- the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect 10 -- we highly recommend the picture book, "Nadia: The Girl Who Couldn't Sit Still" for ages 5 to 8 at https://www.amightygirl.com/nadia-couldn-t-sit-still

For a fantastic t-shirt that speaks to the fact that strength has nothing to do with gender, check out the “I'm not strong for a girl. I'm just strong.” t-shirt for both kids and adults at https://www.amightygirl.com/strong-t-shirt

And, for more inspiring stories of trailblazing girls and women throughout history, you can sign-up for A Mighty Girl's free weekly email newsletter at https://www.amightygirl.com/forms/newsletter

02/07/2021

Sophia Di Martino praised the Marvel production team for making it “possible for me to do my job and be a parent.”

Sophia Di Martino praised the Marvel production team for making it "possible for me to do my job and be a parent."

26/05/2021

It's your time to speak up

24/05/2021

Announcing Season 2 Premiering July 2021