KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
Below you'll find a few items on my radar:
Books – Gender and Equality
NONFICTION
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All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today, Elizabeth Comen, M.D.
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Bad Feminist: Essays, Roxane Gay
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Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women, Renee Engeln
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Becoming, Michelle Obama
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Be Fierce: Stop Harassment and Take You Power Back, Gretchen Carlson
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Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity, Peggy Orenstein
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Brandsplaining: Why Marketing is (Still) Sexist and How to Fix It, Jane Cunningham & Philippa Roberts
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Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes, Elizabeth Lesser
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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Ronan Farrow
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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture, Peggy Orenstein
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The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know, Katty Kay and Claire Shipman
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The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence, Rachel Simmons
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The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman's Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine, Sue Monk Kidd
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Kate Manne
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Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
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Enough As She Is: How to Help Girls Move Beyond Impossible Standards of Success to Live Healthy, Happy, and Fulfilling Lives, Rachel Simmons
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Kate Manne
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EVE: How the Female Body Drove 100 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon
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The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact - Driving Movements We Need Now More Than Ever, Latanya Mapp Frett
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Feminasty: The Complicated Women's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death, Erin Gibson
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The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan
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Feminism is for Everyone: Passionate Politics, Bell Hooks
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, Timothy Egan
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The Fix: Overcome the Invisible Barriers That Are Holding Women Back at Work, Michelle King
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Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds, Gina Rippon
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Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, Peggy Orenstein
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Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem
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Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man’s World, Lauren Fleshman
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet, Nell McShane Wulfhart
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
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How To Be A Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back, Nina Jankowicz
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, Malala Yousafzai
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
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The Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed For Men, Caroline Criado Perez
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Know My Name: A Memoir, Chanel Miller
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Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit
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Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth About Extreme Misogyny and How It Affects Us All, Laura Bates
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The Moment Of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World, Melinda Gates
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The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, Angela Saini
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Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women, Kate Moore
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Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger: Soraya Chemaly
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The Right To Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century, Amia Srinivasan
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The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
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The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA, Liza Mundy
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So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne
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That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together, Joanne Lipman
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Untamed, Glennon Doyle
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We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters, Rebecca Solnit
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WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game, Abby Wambach
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Ture Story of the Historical Battle for Women's and Mental Health Rights), Kate Moore
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Women & Power, Mary Beard
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Women Talking, Miriam Toews
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You Throw Like A Girl: The Blind Spot of Masculinity, Don McPherson
FICTION
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The Diamond Eye, Kate Quinn
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The First Ladies, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
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Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel, Bonnie Garmus
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The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, Allison Pataki
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The Power, Naomi Alderman
FOR CHILDREN AND TEENS
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Boys Will Be Human: A Get-Real Gut-Check Guide to Becoming the Strongest, Kindest, Bravest Person You Can Be, Justin Baldoni
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The Confidence Code for Girls: Taking Risks, Messing Up, and Becoming Your Amazingly Imperfect, Totally Powerful Self, Katty Kay, Claire Shipman, JillEllyn Riley
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Express Yourself: A Teen Girl’s Guide to Speaking Up and Being Who You Are, Emily Roberts
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Tales of Extraordinary Women, Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favill
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A Heart of a Boy: Celebrating the Strength and Spirit of Boyhood, Kate T. Parker
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Raise Your Hand, Alice Paul Tapper
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A Smart Girl’s Guide: Knowing What to Say, Patti Kelley Criswell
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Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon, Patty Lovell
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Strong is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being Themselves, Kate T. Parker
Books – Entrepreneurial
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The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, Amanda Palmer and Brené BroWN
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead, Brené Brown
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The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, Adam Grant
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, Adam Grant
Podcasts - Gender and Equality
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Feminist Book Club, Rah Hernandez
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The Fix, Michelle King, Kelly Thomson, and Selina Suresh
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Gender at Work
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The Guilty Feminist, Deborah Frances-White
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How To Talk To Kids About Anything, Dr. Robyn Silverman
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The Man Enough Podcast, Justin Baldoni, Liz Plank, and Jamey Heath
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Ms. Magazine - On The Issues, Michele Goodwin
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Next Question, Katie Couric
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NPR, Believed, Lindsey Smith and Kate Wells
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Ordinary Equality, Kate Kelly and Jamia Wilson
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Playing with Fire, Shannon Watts
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Scene On Radio, Season 3, MEN, John Biewen and Celeste Headlee
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Stuff Mom Never Told You, Anney Reese and Samantha McVey
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The Story of Woman, Anna Stoecklein
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UnF*uck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone, Kara Loewentheil
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United Bodies, Kendall Ciesemier
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Unladylike, Cristen Conger
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Unlocking Us, Brene Brown
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We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach, and Amanda Doyle
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Wiser Than Me, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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Women's Liberation Radio News
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Women's Media Center, Robin Morgan
Podcasts - Entrepreneurial
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How I Built This, Guy Raz
TED Talks - Gender and Equality
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A Call to Men, Tony Porter
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How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control, Ashley Judd
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Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model, Cameron Russell
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On being a women and diplomat, Madeleine Albright
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Tales of passion, Isabel Allende
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This tennis icon paved the way for women in sports, Billie Jean King
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To raise brave girls, encourage adventure, Caroline Paul
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We should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse, Jimmy Carter
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Why we have too few women leaders, Sheryl Sandberg
TED Talks - Entrepreneurial
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How great leaders inspire action, Simon Sinek
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The power of vulnerability, Brene Brown
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The power of introverts, Susan Cain
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The surprising habits of original thinkers, Adam Grant
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Your body language may shape who you are, Amy Cuddy
Documentaries - Gender and Equality
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Fair Play
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Game On: Women Can Coach
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The Hunting Ground
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The Illusionists
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The Invisible War
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The Janes
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Killing Us Softly
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The Mask You Live In
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Miss Americana
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Miss Representation
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RBG
Documentaries - Entrepreneurial
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Becoming Warren Buffett
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Freakonomics
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Toy Guides
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Let Toys Be Toys
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A Mighty Girl
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Oppenheim Toy Portfolio
Social Media - Support and Follow
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Amy Poehler Smart Girls
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Brene Brown
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A Call to Men
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Day of the Girl – US
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Equality Can't Wait
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The Female Lead
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Feminist.com
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Feministing
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Geena Davis Institute
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Girls Inc.
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Girls on the Run
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Girls Opportunity Alliance
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Girl Boss
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The Good Men Project
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He For She
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Jezebel
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Lean In
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Let Toys Be Toys
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Lift Our Voices
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The Lily
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Makerswomen
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ManKind Project
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Maria Shriver
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Me too
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A Mighty Girl
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Ms. Magazine
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New Moon Girls
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Play Like A Girl
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Reel Girls
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The Representation Project
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Reshma Saujani
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Riot Women
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Sporty Girl Books
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This Girl Can
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Time’s Up
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Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
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UN Women
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White House Gender Policy Council
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Women in the World
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Women’s Sports Foundation