Everyone is so excited about the new “game developer” Barbie, but it just makes me sick. First of all, of course she’s a game developer, because every other profession in engineering and coding “sounds boring.” Heaven forbid she should be doing something boring like developing an algorithm to analyze the outbreak of disease, creating an…
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Lately, the news has been filled with articles about how women are being featured in advertisements, girls are being featured in comic books, and are getting attention in Hollywood. We love to hear this kind of news for two reasons. It’s about time. Females make up half the people and it’s about time we started seeing…
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When is it appropriate to greet a business woman with a kiss instead of a handshake? I’m tempted to say “always.” Wednesday I set up a meeting with a potential business partner who I’d met once before at a networking venue. When he saw me, he got up, gave me an air-kiss on the cheek…
DetailsWhen I first heard about the missing Nigerian girls from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School, I didn’t give it much attention. At Gangly Sister we emphasize the positive. We do that as a matter of philosophy, and of fear, to be perfectly honest. Our philosophy is to emphasize what is good and right. We…
DetailsI get as misty-eyed as the next person watching the Dove Selfie video, but when I stopped and thought about it, I realized it’s only one step up from telling girls they have to be beautiful in the first place. I’m taking a coursera course with Dan Ariely. In the first video, Professor Arieli explains that, as you…
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