Overturning the Myth of Valley Girl Speak - 1 views
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Jenni Young on 26 Dec 13Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, took a close look at today's uptalk, popularized during the 1980s as Valley Girl Speak.
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SparkNotes: Girl: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols - 0 views
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Study guide for Jamaica Kincaid's short story, "Girl"
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Study guide for Jamaica Kincaid's short story, "Girl"
Today's Girls Love Pink Bows as Playthings, but These Shoot - 0 views
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Inspired by a succession of female warrior heroes, toy makers are marketing a more aggressive line of playthings for girls - even as the industry clings to every shade of pink. (NY Times)
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Inspired by a succession of female warrior heroes, toy makers are marketing a more aggressive line of playthings for girls - even as the industry clings to every shade of pink. (NY Times)
The "Throws Like a Girl" Myth | MythBusters - YouTube - 0 views
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Mythbusters examines whether girls really do throw differently from boys
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Mythbusters examines whether girls really do throw differently from boys
First Watch: Maddie & Tae, 'Girl In A Country Song' : The Record : NPR - 0 views
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The video for the teenage duo Maddie & Tae's first single, "Girl In A Country Song", cheerfully turns the tables on the cartoonish macho tendencies of so much recent country music.
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The video for the teenage duo Maddie & Tae's first single, "Girl In A Country Song", cheerfully turns the tables on the cartoonish macho tendencies of so much recent country music.
Like a girl - commercial - 2 views
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A group of actors, young and old, audition for a commercial. They are all instructed to perform simple tasks but "like a girl".
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A group of actors, young and old, audition for a commercial. They are all instructed to perform simple tasks but "like a girl".
Lego Remakes a 1981 Ad, But This Time For Girls' Only - 0 views
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Blog about Lego's new ad which targets girls, and the 'pinkifying' of toys (Princess Free Zone)
NYC Girls Project - 0 views
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This fall, New York City becomes the first city in the nation to tackle the issue of girls' self-esteem and body image.
Linguists explain how to tell statements from questions in Valley Girl talk - 0 views
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Amanda Ritchart is a native speaker of Southern Californian English, the dialect also known as "Valley Girl talk" - you know, the one that's like totally full of the word "like."
Dark Girls: Race, beauty, and bias - 0 views
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9-minute trailer for the documentary Dark Girls. In it, African American women discuss their own experiences of bias toward dark-skinned women, both in pop culture broadly and from people in their own lives.
Ad Takes Off Online: Less Doll, More Awl - 0 views
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The complicated Rube Goldberg machine in a viral video ad from a start-up toy company called GoldieBlox has a simple goal: to show girls that being an engineer is cool.
Dark Girls: New Documentary From Producer Bill Duke Tackles Colorism - 0 views
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"Dark Girls" is a powerful documentary on the issue of the separation - between light-skinned and dark-skinned African-Americans.
#GirlsCan: Women Empowerment | COVERGIRL - YouTube - 0 views
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Cover Girl commercial
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Cover Girl commercial
What stands in the way of women being equal to men? BBC News - YouTube - 0 views
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'All That Stands In The Way' is a BBC documentary following the lives of four teenage girls in Jordan, Lesotho, Iceland & UK in an effort to understand the roots of gender inequality.
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'All That Stands In The Way' is a BBC documentary following the lives of four teenage girls in Jordan, Lesotho, Iceland & UK in an effort to understand the roots of gender inequality.
"White means pure": singer Dencia defends Whitenicious - YouTube - 0 views
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Singer Dencia defends her skin care range Whitenacious. Is the message it sells controversial? Phinnah Ikeji of Black Role Models UK thinks it's the wrong message for young girls' self-esteem.
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Singer Dencia defends her skin care range Whitenacious. Is the message it sells controversial? Phinnah Ikeji of Black Role Models UK thinks it's the wrong message for young girls' self-esteem.
BBC News - Cyberbullying suicide: Italy shocked by Amnesia Ask.fm case - 0 views
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MPs in Italy call for action against cyberbullying after a girl of 14, subjected to online abuse, kills herself in a north-eastern town.
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MPs in Italy call for action against cyberbullying after a girl of 14, subjected to online abuse, kills herself in a north-eastern town.
BBC World Service - Freedom 2014, All that Stands in the Way - 0 views
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What is standing in the way of girls achieving equality?
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What is standing in the way of girls achieving equality?
A Graphic Photo Spurs Reflection - 0 views
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The image of two Indian girls - victims of gang rape - hanged from a tree has inspired discussion on the use and impact of such a graphic image.
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The image of two Indian girls - victims of gang rape - hanged from a tree has inspired discussion on the use and impact of such a graphic image.
Girls at North Arlington school swear not to swear as part of lesson in civility - See ... - 1 views
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Catholic school girls think it's just plain sexist that they were asked to take a no-cursing pledge on Friday - and the boys weren't.
Why Rape Euphemisms And Myths Are Dangerous | Role Reboot - 0 views
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Who is helped when we refuse to be accurate about rape? Certainly not rape victims. Last week, an Englishman was sentenced to five years in jail for raping a woman while she slept. As the judge put it, "She was a pretty girl who you fancied. You simply could not resist. You had sex with her".
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Who is helped when we refuse to be accurate about rape? Certainly not rape victims. Last week, an Englishman was sentenced to five years in jail for raping a woman while she slept. As the judge put it, "She was a pretty girl who you fancied. You simply could not resist. You had sex with her".