Why Girls Only?

In research commissioned in 1999 by Girls Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive, more
than half of high school girls are very dissatisfied with the role gender stereotypes play in their lives.  Girls Inc. National Research and Training Center, verified that girls who...

* Are involved with sports, or clubs and organizations
* Receive high levels of support from adults
* Believe that girls are no less competent than boys
* Can name three adults who could help with a problem

Are more likely to be girls who...

* Are satisfied with their bodies
* Want to go to college
* Have a high quality of life
* Overcome the effects of gender stereotypes

From The National Council for Research on Women:

* Girls are often left out of the highest expectations and opportunities for leadership in math, science, technology, academic and artistic achievement.
* Girls are smoking more, suffer depression twice as frequently as boys, and represent a disproportionate percent of rape victims and other forms of violence.
* Three out of every four child victims and survivors of violence are girls. One in every three to four girls are sexually victimized by the time they are 18 or seniors in high school.
* The leading causes of premature death among women - including cancer, heart disease and AIDS - are all associated with behaviors that often begin during adolescence.
* Girls and women account for nine out of ten cases of eating disorders, which have the highest mortality rate of all psychiatric disorders.
* The teen birth rate is declining steadily. However, the U.S. teen birth rate remains higher than that of comparable industrialized Western Nations.
* Among full-time, year-round workers, men still earn more money than women across all levels of educational attainment.

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