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Ms. Bellamy said that the Framework of Action being negotiated in Dakar must single out girls' education as a priority.
Then came the wild success of her 1983 debut LP, "She's So Unusual, " from which the single "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" was taken.
He signed them anyway, and their single, "Them Girls, Them Girls, " sold 500, 000 copies.
Women and girls thus form the largest single category of people deprived of full and equal opportunities for education.
Girls make up the largest single group of children out of school.
Private colleges are moving away from single-sex education as historically all-girls schools join forces with male counterparts or align themselves with bigger universities, according to Lisa Maatz, director of public policy and government relations for the American Association of University Women.
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For older girls there's the now-single Barbie, whose 2004 breakup with Ken was overseen by Ben Affleck's publicist, Ken Sunshine.
Girls Aloud singer Nicola Roberts released her debut solo single Beat Of My Drum last week, shortly after it premiered on Scott Mills' Radio 1 show.
Mr Peckham also pointed out that two single-sex toilets - one for boys and one for girls - would need one man and one woman to supervise them, whereas the unisex facilities would only need supervision by one member of staff of either gender.
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.
But one of the things that I tell my girls is that you have to practice who you want to be every single day.
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Primo Puel, an interactive doll, has become an unexpected hit with elderly single women: it was originally designed for another group of lonely people, boyfriendless young girls.
In a survey of ex-pupils from girls' schools, the coalition says that a very high proportion believed that single-sex education had benefited them and given them greater confidence.
More than two thirds (69%) of the girls agreed that some types of families were treated less fairly, such as single parents and same-sex parents or parents who were not married.
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The school has to an extent narrowed the gender gap which now sees girls outperforming boys at GCSE level by having a boys' underachievement group and some single sex lessons.
She won a place in Girls Aloud through reality TV show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, and their first single Sound of the Underground went straight to number one.
Yet as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton - like her fellow self-described feminists - has chosen to single Israel out for opprobrium while keeping nearly mum on the institutionalized, structural oppression of women and girls throughout the Muslim world.
Mr Bell said that reflecting these strong male images, girls can be less confident than boys in class - and he said some schools were experimenting with single-sex classes to offset this.
Ms Kiernan's research suggests that girls who meet five criteria, including doing progressively worse at school and being the children of a single mother, have a 60% chance of becoming single mothers themselves.
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