A longtime Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitor, Shama Ko loved her sport, but she saw too much division and exclusion when it came to gender. After discovering Girls In Gis, however, a training and support ...

Ashley Nguyen has trained for six years in Jiu-Jitsu and teaches the sport through her Girls in Gis program.Submitted photo Girls in Gis founder Ashley Nguyen (right) hosted a two-year anniversary ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - By day, she’s a mild-mannered teller at a credit union in Starkville. Courteous, neat, efficient. Nothing to hint at the chokeholds, locks or disabling blows she could deliver ...

Over one hundred women hit the mats at Triton Fight Center for Girls in Gis where they learned about the benefits of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. It is the second year and continues to grow. New Release: Farm ...

At least 3,000 students and activists marched with candles and burned an American flag in Seoul to protest the acquittals of two U.S. soldiers in a traffic accident that killed two South Korean girls.

The average age of the onset of puberty has been dropping in the last century—with some girls starting to develop breasts as early as age six or seven. These shifts in the reproductive development ...

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Programs in science, technology, engineering, and math are boosting a new generation of female students—and countering some familiar barriers to success. At ISEF 2019, Russian high school student Inna ...