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APA's Public Interest directorate invited six middle school girls to sit down and share their thoughts about the images of girls they see all around them and how they feel about the way girls today are portrayed.

This study, the first of its kind in Brazil, explores attitudes and practices around child and adolescent marriage in Pará and Maranhão, two Brazilian states with highest prevalence of the practice. The results confirm the mostly informal and…

A study that shows how and why investing in girls is critical to the global movement to end child marriage.

The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) and Zambart conducted formative research between January and April 2015 to generate evidence-based ideas for services and programmatic interventions that support healthy transitions to adulthood…

The mission of Brown Girls Do Ballet® is to help increase participation of underrepresented minority populations in ballet programs through organizing and arranging ballet performances, photo exhibitions, and providing resources and scholarships to…

Celebrating and increasing diversity in the sports of gymnastics and acrobatics.

A registered not-for-profit 501c3 dedicated to promoting diversity in the arts by providing annual scholarships, a mentor network, and community programs to empower young girls.

Presents a comprehensive look at the educational achievement of girls during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls' and boys' progress.

Empowering Adolescent Girls in Developing Countries explores the detrimental impact of discriminatory gender norms on adolescent girls’ lives across very different contexts. Grounded in four years of in-depth research in Ethiopia, Nepal, Uganda and…