Stories like Aesha's inspire us, girls, struggling to live a normal and deserved life.
The truth is, however, that the same behaviors that wound and traumatize us as girls are alive and well in the workplace, undermining our career success.
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That starts by treating this moment not as some global airing of our dirty laundry but rather a national awakening to the reality that all of us -- girls and boys, women and men -- must do our part in cleaning it.
We've got 18, 000 girls in the US who are a very, very good standard and we have a couple of girls in the gym.
Experience has shown us that education for girls, legal reform and access to family planning have made a difference in many countries.
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With the interpreter at my side, the girls followed us for hours asking questions such as what my patch meant, had I gone to school, for how long, was I married, did I have children?
"But, what's maybe less personal, and maybe more incumbent on us as leaders in girls' schools, is to try and get girls to see that it is a decision, and that there are options, and that it's not wrong, and that's where society needs to come into play as well, " she said.
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.
Yet let me be clear: My sister has been warned that if there is a misstep, those girls will join us in Washington and won't come back to Texas until they turn 18.
The next year rolls around, another retreat gets underway where we witness more adolescent girls flocking to us with a hunger to overcome their fears of being accepted, a desire to embrace who they are, and an urge to get excited about a new life.
"It encourages us to find ways to show girls and women to play their full part, " she said.
But we were able to catch sight of some hammocks hanging from branches, rocked by the wind, and I saw, nestling in them, the girls who had led us to that place.
Help us stand up for truth and two girls who just wanted to tell the world a story.
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During my walk through Malawi's tiny Mnjolo village, the little girls kept running up behind us, touching our clothing and giggling.
The grandeur of the cosmos has intrigued and challenged us since time immemorial and, on a clear night, looms above us stirring wonder in little boys and girls and discomfort in men who have lived a little.
It's pretty tough, taking turns to keep watch for an hour at time with just one other person on your team, but we're a tough bunch of girls and whatever anyone tells us to do, we'll do.
Then she pointed out that it was only girls and not the boys following us around.
Then I saw that the girls weren't looking at us, they were looking the other way!
But analysts say that, while the Spice Girls and Stone have cracked the US market, other British acts, including Robbie Williams, have failed to make the same impact.
"Their efforts impact the lives of both women and men, girls and boys, and provide us with outstanding examples of the importance of perseverance, commitment and the desire for change, " Ryder said.
Emmett Harder, the gold prospector, showed us the old kitchen where he and the Manson girls ate pancakes.
There Mr. Ehsan Ahmed Sehar joined in to guide us to the venue of the workshop at the Girls School.
People giving their hard earned dollars to us -- trusting us that we do our best to help the girls push through their scars and pain.
The first is the "I've gotta have it" impulse, which, though generally the preserve of spoiled heiresses, It girls and pop stars, can strike us all.
The plotting seems dangerously self-interested, being concerned almost exclusively with the survival of the mutants themselves, and, behind the succulent effects, the tone is oddly hectoring, instructing us to behave liberally toward these nice boys and girls whose only quirk is the ability to create thunderstorms or hurl fire.
And the potential that I see in not just all of you, but all of our young women all across this world, that reminds me that the rest of us must work to lift up the women and girls in our own communities -- because we know that when women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them.
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