Amazing Girl Highlight: Vallerie, Chess Extraordinare
Vallerie Joyia Demavibas is a 15-year-old girl living in the Phillippines who pours her heart and soul into the game of chess!
Vallerie Joyia Demavibas is a 15-year-old girl living in the Phillippines who pours her heart and soul into the game of chess!
Girls: We need your help! The team behind WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES, a 2012 SXSW Film Festival premiere, will host a community event benefitting GENaustin on Sunday, March 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Gallery Black Lagoon, 4301 Guadalupe Street,
The Women’s Media Center released their annual report about the representation of women in the media, and the news is not good. In nearly every category, both in being convered and creating the coverage, women are massively underrepresented.
It is a well known, (if often unacknowledged) fact that in our society there still exists a significant gap in the number of women compared to men in the fields of science and math, and that women still lag in leadership positions, holding only 5% of top corporate positions and a minority of positions in elected legislatures (just 16% in the USA).
What is to account for this difference? Not ability.
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