Here Are 6 Shows That Will Empower Your Girls, and You Can Stream Them All on Netflix
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Netflix is a delightful black hole full of entertainment fit for each and every type of person, including young girls who deserve to see girls and women doing everything from working in STEM to highlighting the importance of female friendships. In honor of National Women's Month, Netflix is highlighting shows with strong female leads — like Julie Andrews, aka the queen — to give girls a feeling of empowerment and prove that there's nothing they can't do, try, accomplish, or be (which is of the utmost importance, seeing as studies have shown gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children's interests).
But truthfully, these are shows for both girls and boys to enjoy, because everyone, not just girls, should feel that seeing strong women represented in the media — and then out crushing it in the real world — is nothing but normal.
Ahead, the six awesome shows you can binge-watch with your daughters and sons for the rest of this month and beyond.
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Julie's Greenroom
Julie's Greenroom features a cast of puppets who sing and dance in a musical they're staging under their mentor, Julie Andrews, who, in turn, educates boys and girls about theater and the performing arts.
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Project Mc2
STEM is strongly featured in Project Mc2, in which five supersmart besties work together using their various science and tech skills to protect the world and save the day.
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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
The Gilmore girls returned to the small screen thanks to Netflix's Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, which took Rory and Lorelai's mother-daughter relationship to the next level over an entire 365 days of their lives (years after the original series's end). Return to Stars Hollow with your tweens and teens to catch up with the girls in each season of life and discover the show's new lessons in parenting and growing up.
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Lego Friends: The Power of Friendship
In Lego Friends: The Power of Friendship, five best friends go on adventures in their hometown, learning along the way that with friends by your side, everything is better and anything is possible.
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Spirit: Riding Free
In Spirit: Riding Free, a city girl moves to a small Western town where she makes new friends whom she goes on adventures with — including forming a bond with a stallion named Spirit — all while learning about selflessness and courage.
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Anne With an E
Based off of Anne of Green Gables, Anne With an E features a young, bold, imaginative, and strong-willed female lead: an orphan named Anne who finds an "unlikely home with a spinster and her soft-spoken bachelor brother," transforming their lives in the process.