Girls and women are finding more outlets for various styles of group cycling. Last year, Cyclofemme, a 2-year-old group, held 229 rides worldwide and its group in Africa is aiming to get a girl cyclist to the 2016 Olympics.
In this inaugural video, Dara Swan, 15, talks about the challenge of emulating strong celebrity role models such as pop star Beyonce. “I don't want to be the angry black girl at school,” she says.
The Ban Bossy campaign wants girls to hang on to a barometer of self-worth. One teen says in elementary school she “never worried about what everyone thought.” Fourth in the Bias Price series, with reporting from Racheal Creech.
Once black girls wind up in juvenile justice schools it's hard to find the path to financial stability. Research has found that black girls are more likely to be punished for being “un-ladylike” and seen by teachers as “loud, defiant, and precocious.” The first in the series the Bias Price.
As the Girl Scouts seeks to revitalize, dropouts here talk about the turnoffs. Loyalists, however, tout a crafting boom, the way the program is updating and how it's fun to be part of the world's largest girl-led business. Story with reporting from Tatyana Bellamy Walker.
When high school student Yaritza Soto saw how her eating disorder was tearing her mother up, she committed herself to recovery. A version of this story was originally published on Proud2BMe (proud2bme.org).
For one teen in this video it's the chance to work on something to help Alzheimer's disease. For another it's the idea of making technology geared to girls and women. Reframing the male-dominated stereotypes is helping to fire them all up.
The documentary about Laura Dekker's historic solo sail around the world at age 13 is particularly inspiring to female sailors around her age. It shows us that if we want to be skipper we have to want to assume control, says Clementine Furber. We can't be satisfied with less.