women's rights Archives

Inspiring Women in History (In Puzzle and Trivia Game Form!)

January 22, 2022January 21, 2022Jenny Bristol

Learn about inspiring women as you do a puzzle or play a trivia game.

International Women's Day 2021 Reading List, Image Sophie Brown

GeekMom’s International Women’s Day Reading List 2021

March 8, 2021March 8, 2021Sophie Brown1

Happy International Women’s Day! Here is a selection of books that are all great choices to read today, either alone or with your children.

Votes for Women! Resources for the 19th Amendment’s 100th Anniversary

February 20, 2020August 18, 2020Jenny Bristol

This year is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote. Here is a list of some resources that can help you learn more about the amendment and a few ways to celebrate this landmark achievement.

8 Empowering and Inspiring Books for Your IWD Reading List

March 8, 2018March 7, 2018Sophie Brown

Today is International Women’s Day and we have put together an IWD reading list for you. This list contains a mixture of fiction and non-fiction titles, but they all have one thing in common, messages to inspire women of all ages, races, and backgrounds.

Be Bold for International Women’s Day 2017

March 7, 2017December 12, 2017Evil Genius Mum

My son asked me, “Why do we have International Women’s Day?” And frankly, I wasn’t sure I was bold enough to give him the honest answer.

The Cliffs of Insanity: Blaming the “Other”

September 5, 2014November 23, 2017Corrina Lawson8

Seeing those not like you as people is apparently a tough task for some. But that’s where we have to start.

The Audacity of Literacy: Antonio Garrido’s The Scribe

January 17, 2014November 24, 2017Lisa Tate

Spanish author Antonio Garrido celebrates the power of reading and writing through one young woman’s journey in the Middle Ages.

Voting is for the Girls!

March 26, 2012Kay T. Holt12

We raise our children to be the bosses of their own bodies. We teach them to dress and wash and feed themselves, and to keep their private parts private. But if our children happen to be daughters, there’s an oft-neglected aspect of self-care that we must impart: Voting. It may seem strange to count […]

Scott Adams Advocates Ignoring Petulant Women and Other Problems

March 30, 2011Ellen Henderson29

I just got caught up on the recent controversial blog post made by “Dilbert” creator and geek icon Scott Adams and the resulting Internet fallout. For catching-up purposes of your own, here are some handy links: A copy of the original blog post, which Adams deleted from his site Adams’ response to the controversy, which […]

One And Done: The Only-Child Phenomenon

January 15, 2011GeekMom

It once was believed that a woman’s role and worth was to bear children. Throughout history it may have been the men that fought the wars but the women produced the soldiers. There was a time that most women gave birth to upwards of six times in their lives. It wasn’t so much a matter […]