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To kick off a new “Impact” category on this site and in honor of Women’s History Month, I’m starting a news roundup to keep us up-to-date with current happenings in all things women-related, and to educate us on female standouts of times past as well.
This effort to deliver more content that enlightens us and inspires us to strive in our own worlds also aligns with the launch of my impact initiative to provide pro-bono services for non-profits focused on the empowerment and education of girls (contact me for more!).
Hope you learn something new here that lifts you up!
WOMEN IN STEM
A Woman Has Won the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’ for the First Time Ever
https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/karen-uhlenbeck-first-woman-to-win-abel-prize-in-math.html
10 Women in Science and Tech Who Should Be Household Names
https://www.wired.com/story/10-women-science-tech-household-names/
NASA Just Announced Its First-Ever All-Female Spacewalk
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/nasa-schedules-first-all-female-spacewalk/
WOMEN IN BUSINESS
Rent the Runway Joins Glossier in the Elite Club of Female-Founded Unicorns
http://fortune.com/2019/03/21/glossier-rent-the-runway-unicorn/
How This Female Black Venture Capitalist Is Changing The Investment Landscape
https://www.forbes.com/sites/yolarobert1/2019/01/14/femaleblackventurecapitalist/
Serena Williams Invests in Bumble’s Fund Focused on Female Founders of Color
http://fortune.com/2019/03/20/serena-williams-bumble-fund/
WOMEN IN ACTION
The World’s 100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy (See the Young Women Who Top the List)
https://apolitical.co/lists/most-influential-climate-100/
‘Laundromats and literacy are a weirdly perfect couple.’ Chelsea Clinton Leads Storytime in New Chicago Learning Space for Kids
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-chelsea-clinton-literacy-laundromats-20190320-story.html
At the UN Commission on the Status of Women 63, Female Youth Ask for Increased Investment, Accountability, and Seat at Decision-Making Tables
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2019/3/news-at-csw-63-youth-call-for-seat-at-decision-making-tables
New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Ardern (After Banning Assault Rifles) Called for a Global Fight Against Racism
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/new-zealand-pm-global-fight-racism/
Happy Women’s History Month!
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