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  • EASTWOOD: Children's Collection
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Girls solve everything : stories of women entrepreneurs building a better world

Call Number

  • J 920.72 THIM (EAS)

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Publication Information

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2022]

Physical Description

121 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm

Summary

"Women all over the globe are asking questions that affect lives and creating businesses that answer them. Like, can we keep premature babies warm when they're born far from the hospital? Or, can the elderly stay in their homes and eat a balanced diet? Women are taking on and solving these issues with their ingenuity and business acumen"--

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Helping kids make a difference
  • Connecting kids with help
  • Teachers for all
  • Medicine for the masses
  • Saving premature newborns
  • Empowering people with special needs
  • Dressed for success
  • Enabling women to help themselves
  • Tackling poverty
  • Suppers for seniors-delivered
  • The world's most ridiculous problem
  • The tree-planting plan
  • Rebuilding underprivileged communities-the eco-friendly way
  • Making solar energy affordable
  • Inspiring girls to succeed in tech
  • Saving the world one solution at a time.

Added Authors

Melissa Sweet

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