MOMENT IN TIME

March 8th is International Women’s Day, a global day of celebration and activism.  This year’s theme is: Accelerate Action and is a worldwide call to acknowledge strategies, resources, and activity that positively impact women's advancement, and to support and elevate their implementation. At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum. This years focus aims to highlight the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality sooner.

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Authors Katty Kay and Claire Shipman are on a mission after learning that girls' confidence drops by 30% between the ages of 8 and 14. "Right until age 8, there's really no difference [between girls and boys] in confidence levels," Shipman says. They decided to address the problem head-on, and the result was The Confidence Code for Girls, a book adapted for girls ages 8 to 12. Full of graphic novel strips, quizzes, tips, and stories from real girls, The Confidence Code for Girls was an instant best-seller. Kay and Shipman followed that book up with the publication of The Confidence Code for Girls Journal, a companion journal they co-wrote with JillEllyn Riley for ages 8 to 12, which helps girls build confidence-boosting skills they can apply for the rest of their lives.

DID YOU KNOW?

The theme for Women's History Month in 2025 is "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations" as chosen by the National Women’s History Alliance. This theme is intended to celebrate the collective strength and influence of women who have dedicated their lives to education, mentorship, and leadership.

FOR A CAUSE

Anne Frank The Exhibition, opened at the Center for Jewish History in New York City on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2025, to mark the 80th commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. It is a first-of-its-kind, full-scale recreation of the Annex, designed to immerse visitors in the rooms where Anne Frank, her parents and sister, and four other Jewish inhabitants spent two years hiding to evade Nazi capture and where she wrote her famous diary. You can see the exhibit through October 2025 and learn more here: https://www.annefrankexhibit.org/