Home: A girl is a young female human, as opposed to a boy, a young male human. The age at which a female person transitions from girl to woman varies in different societies;

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Demographics: There are 2.18 billion people (est. UNICEF, 2004) aged 18 or under in the world, for a total of more than one billion living girls. From birth

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Gender Roles: In all cultures, girls have been socialized into gender roles. Girls have traditionally been associated with playing with dolls and toy cooking and cleaning equipment,

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Girl Etymology: The word "girl" first appears during the Middle Ages. The Anglo-Saxon word gyrela = "ornament" may have given rise to the modern pronunciation of "girl",

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Lady Etymology: In more recent years, usage of the word lady is even more complicated. Remarks made by the journalist William Allen White in his 1946 autobiography indicate part of the difficulties.

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Woman Etymology: A woman is an adult female human, as contrasted with a man (an adult male), and a girl, (a female child). The term woman (irregular plural: women)

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Women Terminology: The English language's original word for "woman" was Old English wif, akin to German Weib; it later became the modern word "wife".

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Art & Literature: Portrayals of girls may reflect their standing in the artists' culture, and a brief overview of different views of girls in different art periods gives a sense of girls' roles in societies around the world

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Popular Culture: The most famous Flemish comic strip is Spike and Suzy (Suske and Wiske), about the adventures of a boy and a girl (each about 10 years old);

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Women's Rights: Women's rights typically refers to human rights which are or have been granted to adult men but not to adult women in a particular society.

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Culture & Gender Roles: In many prehistoric cultures, women assumed a particular cultural role. In hunter-gatherer societies, women were generally the gatherers of plant foods, while men hunted meat.

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Biology & Sex: Biological factors are not the sole determinants of whether persons can be considered, or consider themselves, women.

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Female Infanticide: Female infanticide, the prevalent form of sex-selective infanticide is the systematic killing of girls at or soon after birth. It normally occurs when a society values male children to

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Girl Guides: Girl Guides was founded as the female counterpart of Sir Robert Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts, in 1910 with the assistance of his sister Agnes Baden-Powell.

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Pinup Girls: A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. Intended for informal display, pin-ups are a light genre of pornography. P

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