They can also serve as strong role models and help girls imagine different futures for themselves.

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Raising a boy, for instance, is quite different from raising girls. (In our first time as parents, my husband and I had two daughters.) While my girls were emotional, easily upset, demonstrative and clingy, boys often slink into the house after school, trying to avoid all manner of human contact.

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Mr Pratt had told the BBC he became suspicious when Savile began arriving several times a month, with different girls in the late 1980s, asking for the key to the accommodation block.

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Dr Leonard Sax, the founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Single Sex Public Education, even claims a neurological reason for his cause: girls and boys mature at different rates, so they need different teaching methods.

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There were two trials, one for Ramirez and one for her three friends, and both of the girls told different stories at each trial.

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Child labourers in the Philippines, low-income black children in the US and low-caste girls in India all suffer very different educational problems which call for adapted solutions and policies.

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Still, for most girls in the state system, the only way to say you're different is to be like the others -- and go with the ruzu sokusu trend.

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