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A recent study highlights the significant long-term socioeconomic benefits of sports participation for women and girls.
Girls bear the brunt of the climate crisis. It’s time we bring them to the centre of international climate policy.
Adopting healthy behaviors and thought patterns around food and nutrition takes time and intentional effort. But it will lead to more lasting change and positive outcomes than quick-fix dieting will.
Host Vinita Srivastava explores why racist, homophobic and sexist attitudes are increasingly showing up in school-age boys – and what we can do about it.
Understanding how deepfakes can be used as a tool for misogyny is an important first step in considering the harms they will likely cause, including through school cyberbullying.
Of the 1.5 million children in English schools identified for SEN services, only one in three – 0.5 million – were girls.
Built in 1821 to house and provide productive employment for the New South Wales colony’s growing population of female convicts, the Parramatta Female Factory was also the site of countless horrors.
People might go to the movies to escape reality. Yet Barbie and Ariel choose to live in the world their audiences inhabit − and, in doing so, decide to die.
Lots of young teens and first-time tampon users are intimidated by tampons. But they’re easy once you get the hang of it.
The voices and actions of women who were enslaved reveal how oppression works and what made a difference to those exposed to it
Breaking the cycle of eldest daughter syndrome: tips for families.
In Kenya, the prevalence of female genital mutilation has dropped by 24.2 percentage points where an alternative rite of passage is being tried.
Girls are leading activist movements across the world, but don’t see themselves as political.
Sexual violence against women and girls in Nigeria’s northeastern region persists because of the Nigerian government’s lax response to cases of sexual offences.
Hijab controversy in Nigeria’s public schools has further exposed how religion has polarised Africa’s most populous nation.
Nigeria must prioritise investment in education, health and infrastructure to harness the opportunities of its huge population.
In urbanising communities in sub-Saharan Africa, women cooking primarily with charcoal and wood had approximately 50% higher odds of likely depression than those cooking with gas.
Gender differences were more significant in lower-income families.
Statistics show that about 41% of women in Kenya have reported physical or sexual violence from their husbands or partners in their lifetime.
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