Even if the parents didn't care about girls mixing with boys, obstacles would remain for the teenage girl, Arora said.
CNN: For a girl in rural India, education is a difficult pursuit
He was shocked to find out the boys and girls didn't have separate bedrooms or shower times!
"Society" forces little girls to wear pink and won't let boys play with dolls.
From a genetic standpoint, however, there is growing evidence that boys aren't more susceptible to autism, but rather girls are more protected from it.
Initially, many villagers were concerned that blackboards don't really belong in a mosque, and kept their girls and boys away.
"If the family can't educate its children, the girls would be pulled out before the boys, " said Cawasji, adding that girls are considered more valuable at home.
CNN: For a girl in rural India, education is a difficult pursuit
If boys and girls in Africa and other developing nations don't learn how to read, write, and add and subtract, this world is just going to move on without them.
Lundy has been offered proposals by older men and boys, but she doesn't want to end up like so many girls in her village.
Girls, like boys, beg for cellphones but then don't promptly pick up when Mom's calling.
The team found significant differences in timing of when girls or boys would look at the eyes, suggesting they aren't following the same cues.
While binge-drinking rates have fallen among boys over the past 10 years, "binge-drinking rates among girls really haven't changed much over a 15-plus-year period, " said Dr. Robert Brewer, of the alcohol program division of the CDC's national Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Now, Hollywood lore says boys prefer movies with boys as heroes something that becomes self-fulfilling, of course, if girls can't get cast in comparable roles.
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