Tag Archives: Bad-Ass Women
10 things we’ve learned from Vanessa
Tweet As you know, Vanessa Valenti, one of the driving forces behind what has made Feministing so great, left us to fully engage in her robust consulting career and business partnership with Courtney Martin. When people leave Feministing, they generally move on to more kinds of awesome, but Vanessa’s role in shaping this space can’t [...]
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The Feministing Five: Reshma Saujani
Tweet “We live in a society ashamed of failure.” Those are words from Reshma Saujani, who’s fighting to change that norm and leading by example. She’s founder of Girls Who Code, an organization helping girls in low-income neighborhoods succeed in technology and engineering. She was also the first Indian-American woman to run for Congress, with [...]
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Physicist Fabiola Gianotti is the second woman shortlisted for Time’s POY
Tweet I think we’d be remiss if we didn’t give a proper shout-out to the 5th runner up for Time’s Person Of the Year (POY), physicist Fabiola Gianotti, part of the team that discovered the Higgs Boson particle in July. Remember? Here’s a refresher: According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an [...]
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Lesson #4: The revolution will only be funded by the people who want revolution. These people won’t have much money.