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profeminist:

“When asked to define what “fixing” gender inequality will look like, then 15-year-old author and child prodigy Adora Svitak gave this incredible response: “Success on the front of women’s rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances – where no girl is denied access to education, for instance – but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes. Success also means more women in the House and Senate (where women are, sadly, the most underrepresented group by percentage of population vs. percentage in Congress).

Success means that girls aren’t starving themselves to try to match some twisted ideal of beauty which grows consistently thinner and thinner; success means that little girls aren’t looking at store sections filled with just pink dolls and frilly clothes; and success is soon. Success means that if I have daughters they will look at me with wonder when I say there was a time when all this – success – they take for granted, had to be fought for.“ 

To read the full interview with this brilliant Mighty Girl in Forbes, visit http://onforb.es/1x65NTn

Adora is now 17 and studying political science at UC Berkeley. You can learn more her on Facebook at Adora Svitak or her website at http://www.adorasvitak.com/. 

Adora also gave a compelling TED at age 12 that has been watched by millions on "What adults can learn from kids” at http://bit.ly/1buMaaW

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