The Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and Wh…
Girl in the Middle: Growing Up Between Black and White, Rich and Poor by Anais Granofsky is her memoir about navigating a complicated life involving her mother, an American Black woman who worked in a women’s shelter, a white hippie father who followed an eastern guru, and her paternal grandparents, a wealthy Jewish couple prominent in the ...
The Girl in the Middle | CBC Books
2022年5月11日 · The Girl in the Middle offers a powerful lens to explore how two families, one white and one Black, faced systemic oppression spanning multiple generations and came out at opposite economic ...
Gender Ratio - Our World in Data
Most countries have a female share of the population between 49 and 51 percent (within one percentage point of an equal share of men and women). There are however a few notable outliers: In several countries in South and East Asia — most notably India and China — there is a significantly lower female share of the population.
The State of Girls’ Mental Health and Self-Confidence, in Charts
2023年11月9日 · The ROX survey of more than 17,500 girls in 5th through 12th grades found the percentage of girls who report feeling confident has dropped in the past six years from 68 percent to 55 percent,...
Malala's Story | Malala Fund | Malala Fund - Malala Yousafzai
Malala Fund is working for a world where every girl can learn and lead. Learn how Malala began her fight for girls — from an education activist in Pakistan to the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate — and how she continues her campaign through Malala Fund.
The Girl in the Middle | Princeton University Press
Gardner, known for his iconic portrait of Abraham Lincoln and his visceral pictures of the Confederate dead at Antietam, posed six federal peace commissioners with a young Native girl wrapped in a blanket. The hand-labeled prints carefully name each of …
The Struggles of Middle School Girls - Harvard Graduate School …
2019年1月17日 · By middle school, those numbers had dropped for both genders, but significantly for girls overall: to 37 percent, with 56 percent for boys. (The report found that black and Latinx girls fared much better: 59 percent of black middle school girls said they were happy the way they were; 54 percent for Latinx girls.)
Tracing global trends in education - World Bank Gender Data Portal
2024年4月18日 · Too many girls remain out of school. Globally, it is estimated that 244 million children between the ages of 6 and 18 were out of school in 2021, unable to benefit from the lifelong impact of formal schooling (UNESCO 2022). The UNESCO estimates confirm that the difference in the rate of girls and boys out of school has been closed at the global ...
5 Arab women who are breaking down stereotypes and building …
2016年2月29日 · Women are 49.7% of about 345.5 million people in the Middle East and North Africa region. Some in the West think of these women as zipped up in a tent in the desert, probably beaten up by their husbands, a stereotype many of …
Malala: The girl who was shot for going to school - BBC News
2013年10月7日 · One year ago schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen - her "crime", to have spoken up for the right of girls to be educated. The world reacted in horror, but after...