I have boy/girl twins so I see the sex segregation clear as day. Fortunately, at seven, they are still able to play on the same tee-ball and baseball teams.

The best player on the team this year was a Kindergartener named Amelia. :)

Join us for to talk with Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Women’s Sports Foundation’s senior director of advocacy, Olympic champion, professor of law and mother of three, about the importance of sports opportunities for girls and women and getting girls in the game. Organized sports in high school is the most effective life-long anti-obesity program going.  Research shows that girls who participate in sports and physical activity are more likely than inactive girls to stay in school, get better grades, graduate from high school and go to college.  Yet girls still lag behind boys – 1.3 million fewer opportunities to play in high schools.     Let’s talk about ways to encourage your girls to get involved in interscholastic sports, and make sure your school is investing in your daughters as well as your sons. 

Here is something that freaks me out - I went to the doctor a couple of months ago with a concern about something on my breast. It turned out to be something under my skin and harmless, BUT they still wouldn't prescribe me a mammogram because I'm not 40 yet.

Why?

In The Motherhood, we know cancer touches all of us. On March 8, International Women’s Day, we’ll gather to take a moment as a community to acknowledge the impact of cancer as a woman’s issue. We'll share our stories about cancer and our loved ones and the transformative experiences that cancer can bring into our lives. And we’ll take a simple but powerful step to fight women’s cancers worldwide. Join the American Cancer Society on this important day to share your stories and learn how our voices can make a huge difference to women around the world who are fighting cancer.

Like Joanne, I also thought I wouldn't have much to say on this subject, but then I thought - my friend Susan, my Aunt and my neighbor are all breast cancer survivors and my husband just lost an uncle to cancer. It truly does touch us all.

In The Motherhood, we know cancer touches all of us. On March 8, International Women’s Day, we’ll gather to take a moment as a community to acknowledge the impact of cancer as a woman’s issue. We'll share our stories about cancer and our loved ones and the transformative experiences that cancer can bring into our lives. And we’ll take a simple but powerful step to fight women’s cancers worldwide. Join the American Cancer Society on this important day to share your stories and learn how our voices can make a huge difference to women around the world who are fighting cancer.