Girls around the world fascinate me endlessly. Although I'm 25, I'm able to develop a bond, and an awareness of their dreams, through social media.
We need to encourage our older teenage girls to see our younger girls for what they themselves once were -- on the precipice between self-acceptance and self-loathing, needing the encouragement of the older girls they so admire and respect.
There are five universal factors that, no matter where people are, where they are from, or what sector they are in, make a real difference in encourag...
Any entrepreneur will tell you that for every one person who thought their idea was innovative and brilliant, three others were certain it would never go anywhere.
Through coercion, abuse and imprisonment, as many as 300,000 children across America-particularly girls-are at risk of being trafficked for sex every ...
Pakistan must implement legislation to ensure freedom of religion for all. What the country currently lacks is not a legal framework but genuine political will.
You don't have to tell your friend that you're not interested in dating -- he already knows. My guess is he's not going to be happy with the status quo. Once the cat is out of the bag, it is very difficult to put him back in.
Dear Dr. George, My ex-boyfriend and I broke up four months ago. I'm still very much in love with him. I have reason to believe he still cares about ...
Interviewing guys about dating and relationships is one of my favorite things to do. Aside from gaining some valuable information, I'm always fascina...
Is there some mystery involved in using social media to make messages spread contagiously? Yes. But it's not as mystical as the gurus would have us believe.
When girls are regarded as little more than property to be transferred from one family to another through marriage, they are often violated physically and sexually by their soon-to-be husbands and family.
Girls joined together to kick off the Girl Up "Unite for Girls Tour," launching a movement of girl power across the country to help their peers in developing countries.
How much money do you spend every month? How little could you survive on? If you're a single woman with a family in the District of Columbia, the answer could be $300 or less each month.
Channeling the compassion, energy, and experience of American teen girls to help improve the lives of some of the hardest to reach girls in developing countries is a GREAT idea.
Jeanette is five years old but unnaturally tiny for her age. A year ago, she could not stand, play with other children, eat solids or talk.
Only the formidable Bill Clinton together with his unstoppable Foundation can marshal the forces of good to begin to make fundamental change for future generations of girls and women.
If at 12, a girl has an opportunity to go to school, access to a doctor, doesn't get married at 14, and stays in school, at 18 she can use her education to earn a living. Now she is calling the shots.
This week can be a moment in history for the world's women, where leaders put words into action -- stop the planning and mapping, and start the doing. We all have a role to play in ensuring that.
I first met Jin In off a snowy sidewalk near Bryant Park in New York City this past winter. She just returned from Nepal, energized. There, she was ...
Is it necessary to start caring about aesthetics at such a young age of seven or eight? It seems excessive to take such a young girl to have her leg hair removed. A difference in opinions.
Checkout this great cover gallery archiving over 150 covers of Vladimir Nabokov's masterpiece "Lolita."...
As we fret over precocious puberty turning little girls into little women, why haven't more people stopped to ask what's going on with the boys? For a...
Imagine your daughter at age 7 or 8 with the ability to get pregnant? And without any psychological understanding of how her physical maturity appears to older boys or men.
Once economic necessity lowers cultural barriers, women can use the opportunity to renegotiate power relations within the household and the community.
