About AWR

Rock (v): astonish, astound, daze, dumbfound, jar, pitch, reel, roll, shake, shock, stagger, stun, surprise, sway, swing, tilt, tip, toss, wobble.

Women rock. In every sense of the word. Each and every one of us is special in her own way. And all of us are connected, through shared experience and common challenges.

We can too...

Other women face the same barriers and obstacles we do. They struggle with similar issues. They rise above adversity, discrimination, abuse, alcoholism, sickness, war, and more. So can we.

Other women take advantage of opportunities to create peace, joy, and triumph in their own lives and the lives of those around them. So can we.

This website is a place to:

pay tribute , recognise achievements, and share experiences
celebrate and be celebrated
inspire and be inspired
connect and be connected

Take credit !

In their book “The Women Who Broke All the Rules ,” Susan B. Evans, Ed. D and Joan P. Avis, Ph.D observe that: “Women in general, have great difficulty taking credit for their success.”

They wrote the book to “encourage Torchbearers (their name for the generation of women born between 1945 and 1955), to take pride in their incredible accomplishments and contributions to healthy living for women of all ages.”

It's time for women to take pride in their achievements. Evans and Avis say every woman:

“has a story to tell – an untold story in most cases – that chronicles her choices, her hopes and dreams, her fears, and her efforts to do her best and evolve new truths from old, outdated rules.”

This website, like Evans’ and Avis’ book, is a vehicle for those stories to be told and celebrated. One day we hope it will contain hundreds of thousands of stories celebrating the hopes, dreams and lives of women around the world.