#Reshma Saujani

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#us politics #twitter #tweet #facebook #2002 #@TocarraElise #tocarra mallard #Reshma Saujani #marshall plan for moms #roe v. wade #abortions #abortion bans #us supreme court #scotus #paid maternity leave #paid family leave #affordable child care #abortion is healthcare #abortion is a human right #abortion is better than negligence #mental health services #fund mental health services #maternal mortality

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📸 by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative

#karlie kloss #Reshma Saujani #Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 Meeting

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Imposter syndrome is not your problem to solve.

#imposter syndrome #Reshma Saujani #Youtube

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Saujani added that removing the books not only hinders visibility for women in technology fields, but also diversity in the industry, as many of the protagonists in the series are young girls of color.

"You cannot be what you cannot see," she said. "They don't want girls to learn how to code because that's a way to be economically secure."

#girls who code #book banning #reshma saujani #stacia deutsch #michelle schustermann #jo whittmore #misogyny

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#sophia bush #white house #reshma saujani #cindi leive #tina tchen #meena harris #karine jean pierre #womens history month

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Girls Who Code Founder Shocked By Book Being Banned

Girls who Code book banned and Founder of book series was shocked to find out!

Reshma Saujani, the founder of the book series Girls Who Code was surprised to wake up to her company’s book being banned in a school in a Pennsylvania school district. Girls Who Code Books Banned The novel was added to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans which tracks restricted literature worldwide. The series follows a group of young girls who are part of the coding club and partake in…

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#Blog #book #book ban #book banning #book news #books #books to read #coding #Founder #Girls Who Code #news #Pennsylvania school #reading #Reshma Saujani #school #school bans book #writing

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Black and White and P!nk All Over

- Singer to give away 2,000 banned books during Florida gigs

P!nk is pushing back against censorship by giving away copies of books banned in Florida.

The state accounts for more than 40 percent of all U.S. book bans in schools and libraries, overtaking Texas as the nation’s biggest censor, according to PEN America, the free-speech organization that partnered with P!nk and Florida-based Books & Books for the Nov. 14 and 15 giveaways in Miami and Sunrise, respectively.

Todd Parr’s “The Family Book;” Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb;” Toni Morrison’s “Beloved;” and a book from “Girls Who Code,” founded by Reshma Saujani, are being offered. The distribution mechanism was not mentioned in a news release announcing the giveaways.

“Books have held a special joy for me from the time I was a child and that’s why I am unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools,” P!nk said in a statement.

“It’s especially hateful to see authorities take aim at books about race and racism and against LGBTQ authors and those of color. We have made so many strides toward equality in this country and no one should want to see this progress reversed. … No more banned books.”

Florida’s “speech-constricting laws and policies have become a national template,” resulting in more than 6,000 such instances since 2021, PEN said.

“Every child deserves access to literature that reflects their lives,” the organization said. “Rampant censorship is depriving kids of the chance to see themselves in books and learn about the world and its history.”

11/15/23

#p!nk #pen america #toni morrison #amanda gorman #todd parr #reshma saujani

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#now reading #audiobook #Brave Not Perfect #Reshma Saujani #reading challenge 2023

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Rally Day 2023

Last Thursday was Rally Day! As mentioned in my most recent blog post about the celebration of engineering seniors, Rally Day was my first opportunity to wear my graduation gown. Rather than pairing the ropes with our graduation caps, a fun Rally Day tradition is to wear a fun hat. There’s also technically a hat competition and some people really go all out with this. One cool part about this competition is that it is judged by alums (who at least for the most part are also Smith faculty members). The categories are Biggest Hat, Most Creative, Best Accessory, Best use of Smith Tradition, and Most Sustainable. As I didn’t have any fun or creative ideas, I opted to just wear my new hard hat. Most of the engineers I saw were also wearing their hard hats, but some did add some fun decorations.

Afternoon classes are canceled on Rally Day to make time for the ceremony. While I technically have Thursday morning, afternoon, and evening classes, I was fortunate enough to have them all canceled. I thus took the opportunity to sleep in and grab brunch with a friend. We next went to the Campus Center to see everyone’s hats. 

The main reason to attend the Rally Day ceremony is that it’s where the commencement speaker is announced. However, this big announcement is left for last. During the ceremony, the Glee Club performed twice and a number of awards were distributed including the Smith College medals (for alumnae), faculty teaching awards, and the Elizabeth B. Wyandt Gavel Awards (for Smith staff members “who have given extraordinarily of themselves to the Smith College community as a whole.” Upon receiving their awards, the recipients gave mini speeches.  

The next part of the ceremony was announcing the 2023 honorary degree recipients (Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Gabby Giffords, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Camara Phyllis Jones, and Kelly Link). Finally, after an hour and a half our commencement speaker, Reshma Saujani, was finally announced. While I’d never heard of her by name, I had heard of Girls Who Code which is an international non-profit organization focused on closing the gender tech gap that she founded back in 2012. While I haven’t personally been impacted by this organization, I did donate my Microsoft giving dollars to them two summers ago. As an intern, our giving portals are pre-loaded with $50 that we can donate to various non-profits. If you’re interested, you can read more about these amazing Microsoft intern benefits. 

After the ceremony I went to Amherst to grab dinner with some friends at Agrigato Sushi I ordered pork gyoza and miso ramen which were really tasty. I will note however that the restaurant was pretty pricy.

#college #Smith College #rally day #ramen #Girls Who Code #commencement speaker #Reshma Saujani

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#reshma saujani #marshall plan for moms #feminism #womens issues #women’s issues #childcare #women’s rights #family leave

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📸 by John Angelillo/UPI/Shutterstock

#karlie kloss #Reshma Saujani #Chelsea Clinton #Dustin Yellin #Clinton Global Initiative September 2023 Meeting

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We live in a culture where women need to work twice as hard to earn half the same respect - Reshma Saujani

They’d say I hustled, put in the work. They wouldn’t shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve - Taylor Swift

What works for men does not work for women, because success and likability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women. That’s what the research shows. As a man gets more successful, everyone is rooting for him. As a woman gets more successful, both men and women like her less. - Sheryl Sandberg

#just thinking thoughts #no one is going to see this at this hour on a Saturday so expect a self reblog at some point #but all the reactions to the discourse plus the book I was reading today for work book club just have me thinking

[emomadle]

We've become conditioned to compromise and shrink ourselves in order to be liked. The problem is, when you work so hard to get everyone to like you, you very often end up not liking yourself so much.

-Reshma Saujani, Brave Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder

Check out my artworks in instagram. Hoping to gain more friends who can inspire me in doing art. https://www.instagram.com/em.omadle/

#art #artists on tumblr #artistic #drawing #illustration #painting #original art #sketch #female artists #artwork #watercolor painting #watercolor #wolves #dark aesthetic #dark art #dark fantasy

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Meghan Markle was NOT invited to be a member of the 50 celebrity women/mothers who signed & published a letter to Joe Biden in the Jan 2022 NYT in support of Reshma Saujani's: Marshall Plan for Moms: "Moms are the bedrock of society. And we're tired of working for free"

A mother of six is speaking out against an effort to create a "Marshall Plan for Moms" by giving mothers $2,400 stimulus checks, arguing that it devalues motherhood and sends the wrong message.

Noelle Mering, co-author of the book, Theology of Home II: The Spiritual Art of Homemaking and co-creator of the Theology of Home ministry, explained her opposition to the Marshall Plan for Moms in an interview with The Christian Post.

The push to enact a Marshall Plan for Moms comes nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, which has caused millions of Americans to experience economic hardships. 

In an op-ed published by The Hill in December, Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, called on the Biden administration to implement a "monthly, means-tested $2,400 monthly payment to the women who are the bedrock of our economy and our society." The monthly stimulus payments were just one part of Saujani's proposal, which she referred to as the Marshall Plan for Moms.

The term Marshall Plan refers to the post-World War II initiative spearheaded by the United States to rebuild war-ravaged Western Europe.

"Each day, about 45 million women in this country show up to a job where they regularly work overtime, are paid nothing, and get no time off. Their job title is mother. It's time to pay them for their labor," Saujani asserted. 

The movement to create a Marshall Plan for Moms continued to gain popularity as 50 women penned a letter to President Joe Biden, which was published as an ad in The New York Times in January. Notable signatories included actresses Connie Britton, Eva Longoria, Alyssa Milano, Julianne Moore, Amy Schumer, Amber Tamblyn, Charlize Theron and Gabrielle Union. 

"Moms are the bedrock of society. And we're tired of working for free," they wrote. Illustrating the need for a Marshall Plan for Moms, the women argued that "COVID has decimated so many of our careers. Two million of us have left the workforce, at a rate four times that of men in September alone. Millions more have been forced to cut back our hours or work around the clock to keep our jobs and be full-time caregivers."

The women asked Biden to address the "national crisis" and "establish a task force to create a Marshall Plan for Moms, implement a short-term monthly payment to moms depending on needs and resources, (and) pass long overdue policies like paid family leave, affordable childcare and pay equity." They concluded the letter by declaring: "It's time to put a dollar figure on our labor. Motherhood isn't a favor and it's not a luxury. It's a job."

#meghan markle #prince harry #joe biden #hunter biden #barack obama #michelle obama #eva longoria #sussex #netflix #biden

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Creator of Girls Who Code has a podcast encouraging women and girls.

#Resource #Podcast #STEM #coding