Forty years ago, tennis legend Billie Jean King founded the Women’s Sports Foundation, and organization dedicated to advancing the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity. Forty years ago, I was one year old. It would have never occurred to me then that we would have needed such a foundation, or that […]
Helping Girls Build Self-Esteem – @AskDrG
Deborah Gilboa is a family physician, author, mom of four and the host of iQ: smartparent. Her most recent episode is about helping girls build self-esteem, so I asked Dr. G to tell us a little about it. Here are her words: Progress! Girls have more opportunities than any generation before! Opportunities to play lacrosse and […]
Girl in Politics. Can it Happen?
Last week at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women there was a theme among the keynote speakers that has stayed with me since the event. Charlotte Beers, the former Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy & Public Affairs and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell both made extremely valid points of saying that we need more women […]