Category: Women
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Healing Leaves: The Myth of Orisha Ossanhe by Luzia Castaneda
“The work began in the Poconos Mountains, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 2020. I was painting and a leaf fell onto my watercolor – it was a calling. Throughout the following year, I explored different forests in the U.S. and Brazil, searching for leaves that could create a wonderful beauty over my watercolor, and then…
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Ipanema Welcomes Latin Pop Icon Shakira as Brand Ambassador
Ipanema, a renowned Brazilian footwear brand, announces an exciting partnership with the influential icon of Latin pop culture, Shakira. Shakira becomes the face of Ipanema in the upcoming Spring Summer 2024 in Brazil, starring in an exclusive global campaign for the brand’s Sempre Nova collection, which features a variety of classic Ipanema styles at the forefront of…
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Iranian Woman Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Fight Against Women’s Oppression
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian activist serving a 10-year sentence in an Iranian prison, received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (6) “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and for promoting human rights and freedom for all.” The announcement made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo comes after a wave…
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Grupo Mulheres Do Brasil Offers Another Workshop on Entrepreneurship
If you have the desire to start a business and don’t know how to begin, this workshop is for you. After the success of the 1st edition, registrations for the 2nd Edition of the online Workshop “Trilha Mulheres de Sucesso” are now open. Offered by Grupo Mulheres do Brasil, in partnership with its branches in…
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Renato Falci and His Journey from Celebrity Drawings to Abstraction
The plastic artist Renato Falci, graduated in Art/Education with a specialization in plastic arts from the Guignard School – University of Minas Gerais, began drawing as a child. At school, he depicted on paper celebrities from our history such as Tiradentes, Dom Pedro I, Princess Isabel, and others, created prints on shirts, and later caricatures…
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Are You Getting Enough Vitamin D?
In the United States, about 35% of adults are vitamin D deficient, according to the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. It is estimated that the number is higher for certain populations, such as residents of nursing homes and hospitalized patients. These groups not only spend more time indoors but may…
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Even With Newborns, Mothers Choose to Continue Working
The percentage of women who recently gave birth and remained in the workforce hit a record high in the last decade last year, according to new census data. Maternity often excludes women from the workforce, at least temporarily – delaying the growth of their careers and earnings and contributing to the wage disparities between men…
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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? Influencer!
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Generation Z has never lived without the internet; the oldest among them were born in 1997, four years after it became widely available. Perhaps this explains why so many want to be influencers “when they grow up.” In a survey conducted by Morning Consult, 81% of Generation Z respondents reported following influencers, with TikTok, YouTube,…
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Grupo Mulheres Do Brasil Nova York Celebrates 5 Years
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The Grupo Mulheres do Brasil New York chapter celebrates five years of existence in September. Under the leadership of advertising professional and career coach Alejandra Merklen and architect Eliane Garcez, the chapter’s mission is to support and develop projects to inspire, inform, and empower Brazilian women living in the tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT). The…
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Pill for Postpartum Depression Approved by FDA
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a pill specifically to treat postpartum depression, a potentially fatal condition that affects hundreds of thousands of new parents in the United States each year. The manufacturers Sage Therapeutics and Biogen Inc. say that the drug, Zurzuvae (zuranolone), will be commercially available in the fourth quarter of this…