Girls' Attitudes Survey 2014
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Executive summary from the Girlguiding survey.
The Girls’ Attitudes Survey this year shows that girls and young women continue to experience significant challenges in their lives, many of them because of their gender. The daily pressures and discrimination they face, as our new evidence shows, can have a serious impact on their well-being and affect how they behave and participate in different spheres of their lives. Many of those surveyed voice very serious concerns, and share disturbing experiences, on issues such as bullying, violence against women and girls, sex and relationships education, the representation of women in the media, body image and women’s political participation. Too often, the data shows that girls and young women are told not to take these experiences seriously or are encouraged to normalise discrimination they face.
However, this year we also document how girls and young women think some of these persistent and emerging challenges could be tackled. They overwh...
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