What Tupperware has stood for all these years is the independence of women, allowing women to work from home, earn a living - and that what this Boys & Girls Clubs of America program, the SMART Girls program, is about.
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
We need to create a society where girls and women are getting the same encouragement and support to build their careers as the boys and men are. From the start.
The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.
Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
Fortunately, we have a lot of really smart women in the business.
When you start one of these programs, school lunch programs, in a country that heretofore had nothing of that kind, immediately school enrollment jumps dramatically. Girls and boys get to the classroom with the promise of a good meal once a day.
The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.
Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.