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Did you know that beginning at around 18 months old, girls and boys begin identifying with a gender? Then they look for information about what this means and how they should behave, according to researchers Baldwin & Moses. From age 3 - 5, there are the gender...

High performing __________. Why? It feels inauthentic. As if we are cars that require a new oil filter. It creates this level of competition - if someone isn't a Mercedes or Audi, you just don't get to compete. You don't get to be called "high-performing". Sure, we...

Our culture - any culture - is made up of a series of stories, recycled over and over again. We need to be turning many gendered stories on their head and throwing them into a woodchipper. Ok, fine I’d settle for a large bottle of white out. Here are three actions I...

Did you know that by the time boys and girls are six years old, they both perceive that boys are smarter? Research showed that boys and girls both associate brilliance to boys, and girls begin opting out of activities that are deemed to require intelligence or...

Iceland, 1975. On one October day, almost every woman – 90% of them – did not show up to work: to their jobs, to clean their homes, to care for their babies. They did this to protest low wages and undervalued work. Newspapers were not printed since the typesetters...

I made a big life move this past summer. I moved to Stockholm Sweden with my partner and five year old daughter. And I was really concerned for her. Such a big move to a new house, new friends, new country, new language. But Sweden is #4 in the world in gender...

Ruth Bader Ginsberg was once asked “When will there be enough women on the US supreme court?” She responded "When there are nine." That question - when will there be enough - was never asked in the 192 years where the US supreme court consisted of all men. Even...