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Taking Up Your Space: How Society often Convinces Us to Stay Small

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Certain situations often seem to send a clear message about how women should act, talk and be. Many times, this starts quite early in childhood, and tends to be reinforced by a society that continues to define acceptable beauty, actions and words for women. Indeed, social media has added a whole new pressure to appear and act in ways that are continually defined - then reinforced - by "likes" and cruel comments that are dropped quickly and ruthlessly, leaving no effective way to respond and often having no consequence. Further, women's contributions to…

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