GirlBlazer

“Fail early, fail often,” says Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code. It’s a common phrase in start-up speak...

The United Nations has declared October 11 the International Day of the Girl Child (or Day of the Girl). This day has a unique origin going back to 1995 in Beijing at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women which 30,000 women from 200 countries attended. At the end of the conference, a resolution called the Beijing Declaration was ratified, which specifically mentions the unique challenges faced by women and girls and affirms that women’s rights are human rights.