The Girls Empowering Girls (GEG) programme is meant to address the challenges of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood, school dropout, sexual abuse and limited access to essential social …

SOURCE: Developed by the National Center for Health Statistics in collaboration with the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (2000).

GIRL GOALS: What has changed for girls? Adolescent girls’ rights over 30 years Number of adolescent girls aged 10–19 539 million (1995) 641 million (2023)

INTRODUCTION Girls Inc. strives to provide accurate and up-to-date information on what girls experience today. This Fact Book contains statistics about the lived experience of girls and young …

In 2020, nearly 68 million girls are expected to be born. The analysis presented in this report shows that while girls’ lives are better today than they were 25 years ago, these gains are uneven across …

There are more than 500 private girls’ schools in the United States today – with more opening their doors every year – along with nearly two dozen girls’ public and charter schools, and growing …

Girls of lower-socioeconomic status (lower-SES girls)—that is, those with mothers who have less than a college education—report greater benefits from Girl Scouting than do higher-SES girls.