Girls do not want to be in open competition with boys because they are afraid to appear less feminine and attractive.

女孩子们不想与男孩子们进行公开的比赛，因为她们害怕自己看起来像女汉子，毫无魅力。

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Other schools manage to let girls wear skirts while making sure they are not inappropriately dressed.

其他学校允许女孩子穿裙子，同时又能确保她们不会穿着不当。

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But girls should not marry when they are 9 or 10. Maybe 15 or 16.

这些女孩子确实不该在她们只有9,10岁或者15,16岁时就被迫结婚。

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"We do not have scarves anymore at state schools, but the girls are putting on their scarves again when they go outside of schools,".

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If they are not in school, boys and girls are usually working in stores or hawking gum, washing cars or begging in the streets.

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At his academy in Shanghai, Dickie has a team of 15 Olympic hopefuls, eight of whom attend full-time training, which is funded by a state who get value for money -- with the girls training six days a week if they are not contesting a tournament.

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You have to have a whole community response that says 'we will not marry our girls' so that no one feels that they are at risk of defying cultural norms.

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