This month clubGEN participated  in Lemonade Day, where girls learn the skills necessary to begin a business venture and put those skills into practice by planning opening their very own lemonade stand. ”Through the implementation of 14 steps ranging from goal setting to budget planning, borrowing money and determining the perfect location, children form mini-business models for [...]

Tell me about yourself My name is Annemarie and I’m 12 years old. I like to write and read and be outside. Why did you decide to start helping the environment? Once when I was in a third grade I read a magazine with a penguin on top of an iceberg and it was a [...]

In industrialized countries like the United States, puberty is starting earlier and earlier- sometimes before girls, parents, and schools are at all prepared to deal with it. How can we help mitigate the negative impact on girls associated with maturing at such young ages?

GirlConnect Workshops teach girls to think critically about the media while they have fun creating online zines to express themselves!

  This past Sunday, GENaustin was the happy beneficiary of an event put on by the makers of the film Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines. This event included clips of the film, superheroine art created by GENaustin girls, and a discussion with Wonder Women! Director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Producer Kelcey Edwards, moderated [...]

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, Austin, 78751. And we’re having an art contest! Want to [...]

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.