Still, in Africa, two-thirds of the children who should be in school but are not are girls.
The Newsnight presenter said it was assumed they were girls, but he did not know "whether it was girls or boys".
The mother of Laura's 14-year-old friend told the inquest her daughter had not told her the exact reason for what happened, but said the two girls did not want to be parted.
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They were not sophisticated teenage girls, not by Western standards, but there had been no mystery about sex and procreation for them since soon after they had entered puberty.
Obama: Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there.
The girls' mother, Tommie Granville, was not against the Troxels visiting the girls, but did object to the amount of visitation time the grandparents had sought.
We have made great strides globally in increasing the numbers of girls in primary school, but until we make girls' safety a priority we will not advance our educational goals.
But the girls' father, who presumably did not grow up in Kentucky, did not find it funny.
Girls also showed an increase, but not as dramatic, from 0.49% to 0.70%.
Aaron Schaffhausen has conceded guilt in the grisly deaths of his three girls, but maintains he's not responsible due to mental illness.
But in more equal societies, not only were the girls as good at maths as the boys, their advantage in reading had increased.
Hello Giggles, it should be noted, is not a site created by teenage girls but by three whip-smart women of the millennial generation.
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But she has a warning for other young girls not to be drawn into the kind of dangerous life that left her feeling so hurt and hollow.
The law does not ban male teachers from teaching girls, but the Education Ministry prefers female teachers for girls.
"Not only am I not going to be able to play, but girls all over aren't going to be able to sign up, " she said.
Mr Chirac is torn, fearful of the manipulation of young girls by Islamic radicals, but anxious also not to hand them a propaganda coup by banning the veil outright.
You might have thought that scarcity would lead to girls being valued more highly, but this is not happening.
Roominate, founded by Alice Brooks out of Stanford, is manufacturing modular dollhouses that are not only making technology and engineering fun, but also empowering girls.
Girls must understand not only their moral obligation but their power to be allies to each other at parties and other potentially unsafe spaces for girls.
Through Barbie, little girls could fantasise about themselves not as mums, but as fun-loving adults.
But Girlguiding UK said an increasing number of girls and volunteers do not identify with the current oath.
Not only is sugar consumption going down, but obesity rates among girls and women have actually stayed flat since 1999, according to Cynthia Ogden, a scientist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
And I want to thank all of you for all the work that you do, the leadership that you provide, the time that you have taken out in your lives to fight for the issues that mean so much, not just for women and girls here in this country but around the world.
But she and other women appear to be proudest of stopping a cultural practice in Enjolo which they say was not only resulting in pregnancies but was also spreading HIV-AIDS - girls' coming of age initiation rights.
Its programmes aim to mainstream gender and be gender responsive ensuring that not only are women and girls targeted and enrolled in literacy classes but that their strategic needs are addressed.
In maths and science boys and girls perform much the same at primary school, but at age 15 boys do rather better than girls in maths (though not science).
Girls may choose not to speak up for many reasons, but it's hard to ignore the power of a culture that pushes them to choose boys over each other and punish other girls to protect their own reputations.
But in their submission to the court, the girls' parents said they could not contemplate the death of one of their babies.
Men and women, boys and girls can still benefit from time apart, some critics say, but not when the separation deprives another group of influence.
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But some girls are taking advantage of a loophole in the regulations, which do not set out what kind of ankle socks should be worn.
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