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After another mother suggested this photographer's daughter couldn't be both athletic and girly — she took action to show girls can be whatever they want

A four-year-old girl has been promised future Lego magazines will have more female characters after writing a letter asking "for more girls".

Female puberty is starting earlier and earlier, with worrying consequences for women’s health

Never-before-seen footage has emerged of Meghan Markle visiting India, clad in a traditional sari and bindi, to highlight the plight of girls in period poverty.

Girls are not the only ones who go through puberty early if they have obesity. Boys with obesity enter puberty at an earlier age than average, according to a new study.

A Central Illinois school district has removed the doors from restroom stalls, angering parents and students alike, is reporting. Some girls are reportedly bringing blankets from home so they can have privacy. Officials, however, insist it's necessary after someone wrote a note threatening a school shooting on a stall wall.
School officials in Beardstown have been taking several precautions after discovering the note. It remains unclear, as of this writing, what the note said, specifically, other than that it threatened a school shooting. According to Springfield's , those precautions include allowing entry into and exit from the high school through only one door and conducting random searches.
But it's the removal of doors from the bathroom stalls that has reportedly galled the students, especially the female ones, and their parents.
Student Juan Juarez said that some of his female classmates are coming up with clever solutions to the problem of lack of privacy.

"Today" anchor Hoda Kotb revealed Tuesday that she has adopted a baby girl, a fact Kathie Lee Gifford couldn't be happier about.

Keri was just 15 years old when she met Paul, 24, through her cousin while celebrating at a house party.

Private mental healthcare group The Priory has been fined £300,000 over the suicide of a 14-year-old girl who died while in its care.