Every day, extraordinary women are making waves in the pursuit of global gender equalitry and social change that benefits us all. Each week, Women's Voices Now features the women who are making those waves around the world. We aim to inspire our audicences through these stories and to let those women making waves know that we are watching and following their example!
Impact Report Newsletter (2)

2025 Impact Report

Support Women’s and Girls’ Rights Globally! In 2025, 13.5 million viewers experienced the voices of women and girls through our films. Your support ensures that next year, even more stories are told. EMPOWER WOMEN &Read More »
Nordic Combined is the last Olympic sport with no women's event. Annika Malacinski is fighting to change that.

She Jumps. She Skis. The Olympics Won’t Let Her Compete

Support Women’s and Girls’ Rights Globally! In 2025, 13.5 million viewers experienced the voices of women and girls through our films. Your support ensures that next year, even more stories are told. EMPOWER WOMEN &Read More »
The Pipeline Isn't Empty—Hollywood's Doors Are

The Pipeline Isn’t the Problem—Hollywood’s Doors Are

Support Women’s and Girls’ Rights Globally! In 2025, 13.5 million viewers experienced the voices of women and girls through our films. Your support ensures that next year, even more stories are told. EMPOWER WOMEN &Read More »
Women Are Training Martial Arts to Be Their Own Heroes

Women Are Training Martial Arts to Be Their Own Heroes

Support Women’s and Girls’ Rights Globally! In 2025, 13.5 million viewers experienced the voices of women and girls through our films. Your support ensures that next year, even more stories are told. EMPOWER WOMEN &Read More »
Avra Theodoropoulou

Avra Theodoropoulou: Architect of Greece’s Women’s Rights Movement

Avra Theodoropoulou: Architect of Greece's Women's Rights Movement In the early twentieth century, as empires crumbled and nations redrew their borders, one woman refused to accept that Greece's new political landscape would exclude half its population. Read More »

How One Rohingya Woman Is Building Power in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp

How One Rohingya Woman Is Organizing the World's Largest Camp. 27-year-old Rohingya woman transforms Cox's Bazar refugee camp through strategic community organizing and refugee-led solutions that reach thousands. A Gender Volunteer stands with determination in theRead More »

Cancer Starts as A Word, but It Lives on As an Echo

Cancer Starts as A Word, but It Lives on As an Echo. While the world measures cancer in percentages and projections, the true reality of the disease is found in the quiet space between a clinicalRead More »
Where home never was - Home is a right, not a dream

Home Is a Right, Not a Dream

Home Is a Right, Not a Dream. Homelessness is a real global issue in many so-called developed societies and it is increasing because of high living standards which have become over-valued with weak wages in ourRead More »

Tammy Duckworth: War Hero, Senator, and Advocate for Veterans

Tammy Duckworth: War Hero, Senator, and Advocate for Veterans. Tammy Duckworth, a Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois since 2017, is an Iraq War veteran, Purple Heart recipient, and trailblazer as the first Thai-American woman in CongressRead More »
Maria Tallchief - America's First Native American Prima Ballerina 4bb

Maria Tallchief: America’s First Native American Prima Ballerina

Emmy Noether: Revolutionary Mathematician Who Linked Symmetry and Conservation Laws. Maria Tallchief, born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief on January 24, 1925, in Fairfax, Oklahoma, rose from Osage Nation roots to become a groundbreaking ballerina. As theRead More »
Emmy Noether: Revolutionary Mathematician Who Linked Symmetry and Conservation Laws

Emmy Noether: Revolutionary Mathematician Who Linked Symmetry and Conservation Laws

Emmy Noether: Revolutionary Mathematician Who Linked Symmetry and Conservation Laws. Emmy Noether, a German mathematician born March 23, 1882, in Erlangen, transformed abstract algebra and physics with her theorems on symmetries and invariants. Despite gender discriminationRead More »
Mae Jemison - Trailblazer in Science and The First Woman of Color in Space Banner

Mae Jemison: Trailblazer in Science and First Black Woman in Space

Mae Jemison: Trailblazer in Science and First Black Woman in Space. Mae Jemison, born October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama, shattered barriers as the first African American woman in space aboardthe Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.Read More »
Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer of Sanitary Science and Home Economics

Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer of Sanitary Science and Home Economics

Ellen Swallow Richards: Pioneer of Sanitary Science and Home Economics. Ellen Swallow Richards, an American chemist and educator, broke ground as the first woman admitted to MIT and pioneered fields like sanitary engineering and home economics.Read More »
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