With the support from the financial incentive scheme facilitated by the AGILE project, Fatima re-enrolled in school after dropping out for months. International Day of the Girl Child, October 11, is ...

The most recent data reveal that currently fewer girls are out of school than boys, and that more women are enrolled in higher education than men worldwide. But there is still a long way to go to ...

As the new school year ramps up, teachers and parents need to be reminded of a well-kept secret: Across all grade levels and academic subjects, girls earn higher grades than boys. Not just in the ...

This page presents several graphics analyzing the data generated from HerAtlas, UNESCO’s interactive tool monitoring girls and women’s right to education worldwide. The graphics are updated regularly ...

In September, the Malala Fund started the Gulmakai Network to support the work of education champions in developing countries and speed up progress towards girls’ secondary education around the world.

The preference for playing hockey, or house, is far from fixed. Sex differences in the brain are small—unless grown-up assumptions magnify them Parents anticipate sex differences from the first ...

Girls, see if this sounds familiar. You look in a mirror one morning and notice you're taller -- and rounder. Through your nightgown, you see your breasts are developing. You don't remember looking ...

Mathematicians and scientists are socially awkward men who wear glasses—at least, according to children. Persistent, subconscious images of male mathematicians and scientists that start at the ...

Author Peggy Orenstein says that when it comes to sexuality, girls today are receiving mixed messages. Girls hear that "they're supposed to be sexy, they're supposed to perform sexually for boys," ...

HBO's acclaimed series from Lena Dunham, whose Hannah Horvath proudly proclaimed herself "a voice of a generation," turns 10. HBO series “Girls” revolutionized the TV landscape when it premiered on ...