December 22, 2024 | Raising Smart Girls

Booklist

The Princess Problem

6 years ago by RSG

By Rebecca C. Hains It's no secret that little girls love princesses. Behind the twirly dresses and glittery crowns, however, sits a powerful marketing machine, encouraging obsessive consumerism and delivering negative stereotypes about gender, race, and b...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

6 years ago by RSG

The 28 year-old won the New York Congressional 14th district seat. A young, unknown and inexperienced woman took on the establishment candidate who had served 10 terms and had never been challenged in the primaries in the past 14 years.

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Stacey Abrams

6 years ago by RSG

First major party black female gubernatorial candidate in US history

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Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil

6 years ago by RSG

Being one of the most notable astrophysicists today. Most recently, she discovered a new galaxy - now colliqually called Burcin's galaxy.

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Dianna Cowern

6 years ago by RSG

A smart girl who runs a YouTube channel where she teaches physic concepts in a fun and engaging way.

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Taylor Richardson

6 years ago by RSG

Raised $20k for 1000 girls to go see A Wrinkle in Time.

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McKenna Pope

6 years ago by RSG

Stepped up and petitioned the CEO of Hasbro to change the oven to a gender-neutral silver design and, also feature a boy on the packaging. Not only was McKenna now able to buy a gift that her young brother who was interested in cooking would appreciate, she al...

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Gitanjali Rao

6 years ago by RSG

12 year-old smart girl from Colorado. She won the title from the Young Scientist Lab for her water lead contamination detector, Tethys. Gitanjali hopes to reduce the time of lead detection in water by using a mobile app, to connect over Bluetooth to get status...