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11/18/2025

11/18/2025

Around the globe, women leaders are breaking barriers and driving transformative change across industries, making a profound socio-economic impact.

11/18/2025

Billionaire MacKenzie Scott’s historic philanthropic run has contributed more than $700 million to over a dozen historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this fall.

In what are some of the largest single contributions in the schools’ histories, Scott’s efforts continued this weekend, sending $63 million, $50 million and $19 million gifts to Prairie View A&M University in Texas, Bowie State University in Maryland and Philander Smith University in Arkansas on Friday.

Scott was previously married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

11/18/2025

It’s and professional darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven has opened up about her journey 🏳️‍⚧️

Read more: https://bit.ly/4oSXGKE

11/18/2025

Last week, the New York Times published an op-ed video criticizing the effects of feminism on institutions and warning of the dangers of “toxic femininity.” It briefly ran with the title “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?”

“I can answer that question: yes. Specifically, me—I’m the woman who ruined the workplace. And, frankly, I had a blast.” In The New Yorker Humor, the culprit speaks up: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/n39luP

11/18/2025

The twin sisters from Asbury Park, New Jersey, went from being told “football is a sport for boys” to becoming starters, standouts, and local legends on their high school team. When critics doubted them, they didn’t argue, they hit the field and let their game do the talking.

Now, the only thing opponents are asking for after a matchup? Their autographs. ✍

11/17/2025

11/17/2025

As a 21-year-old undergraduate at Yale in 1981, Maya Lin's design was selected for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, beating out 1,441 other competition submissions. Her famous memorial features a black cut-stone masonry wall with the names of 58,300 fallen soldiers etched into its face. The American Institute of Architects has ranked it as number 10 on their list of America's Favorite Architecture. Lin, who continues to work today as an architectural designer and artist, also designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama among many other works.

To share her story with children, Maya Lin is the subject of the inspiring picture book, "Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines," for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/maya-lin-light-and-lines), the chapter book "She Persisted: Maya Lin" for ages 6 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/she-persisted-maya-lin), and the photo-filled "Maya Lin: Thinking With Her Hands" for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/thinking-with-her-hands)

She is also featured in two compilation books for children: "Little Feminist" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/little-feminist-picture-book) and "Women Artists A to Z" for ages 6 to 10 (https://www.amightygirl.com/women-artists-a-to-z)

To learn about about heroic women who served during the Vietnam War, we also recommend "Courageous Women of the Vietnam War" for teens and adults, ages 13 and up, at https://www.amightygirl.com/courageous-women-of-the-vietnam-war

For fun ways to inspire the architects and builders of tomorrow, we've showcased our favorite girl-empowering building toys in our blog post: “Building Her Dreams: Top 60 Building and Engineering Toys for Mighty Girls," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=10430

11/16/2025

Marian Croak holds more than 200 patents and helped pioneer the Voice‑over‑Internet‑Protocol (VoIP) technology that powers our everyday Zoom calls, voice messages and global connectivity. From Bell Labs to Google, she has broken barriers as a Black woman in tech and opened doors for the next generation of innovators.