Category archives: Women's Rights

Who Was Margaret Thatcher?

If you have been listening to the radio, or watching the news today, you may have heard that a woman called Margaret Thatcher has died. You might not have heard of Mrs Thatcher[...]

The First Computer Programmers

Girls are told, all the time, that there are things they can't do because, well, they're girls. I'm here to tell you: it's not true. Let me tell you about a girl I know. [...]

Great Women You’ve Never Heard Of: Betty Skelton

“I found that once I demonstrated I was capable, had the ability, I was accepted. And I found that true everywhere I’ve ever been and in everything I’ve ever done.” These are th[...]

Great Women You’ve Never Heard Of: Joan Whittington

You might know about the very important work the Red Cross does all over the world to help people in a crisis. Wherever there is war or natural disaster, their familiar s[...]

Writing Competition for Girls, Alice 10 Years

If you live a life of being a girl, and then live a life being a boy, you will notice colossal differences. Being a girl, you have make-up and fashion, gossip and rumours. But then[...]

Writing Competition for Girls - Flo, 15 Years

What Does Being a Girl Mean To You? It means you have a challenge to genuinely be your own person. From a very early age girls are being encouraged to conform in certain ways[...]

Writing Competition for Girls, Polly, 9 Years

What I like about Being A Girl is that you are kind of more trusted than boys. Well, at least that's what I think. I have thought that since I had started school, because then you [...]

Writing Competition for Girls, Issy 13 Years

Yeah, so I’m a girl. That means a lot of things to me: that it is acceptable for me to wear a skirt, and that my voice is higher and I’m shorter than most of the un-girl population[...]

Writing Competition for Girls - Jo, 13 Years

Jo is 13 years old. This was her entry for the 2012 Jump! Mag Writing Competition I’m a scout and I go on a lot of camps every year. My favourite is [...]

Writing Competition for Girls - Libby 10 Years

Girls. If you were a person a couple of decades ago you would think of a basically second-class citizen. Despite everything that women have done to try and stop this cultural disc[...]