Girls have lost ground in reading, math and science at a troubling rate, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of student test scores across the country. Since 2019, girls’ test scores ...

For millions of girls across Africa and Asia today, menstruation means staying home from school. Often, owing to a lack of period products, these girls miss up to a week of class every month.

Leah Williamson, Mariona Caldentey, Victoria Pelova and Vivienne Lia made a passionate plea for young girls to stay in the game during a visit to one of the club’s local football sessions in north ...

Monterey's Aaliyah Chavez shoots against Amarillo High during a District 3-5A girls basketball game, Friday, Dec. 20, 2024, at Monterey High School. / Nathan Giese/Avalanche-Journal / USA TODAY ...

And it has company. Director Shuchi Talati's coming-of-age drama Girls Will Be Girls won two awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Kiran Rao's Laapataa Ladies (Lost Ladies) spent at least two ...

There, they make reusable, washable, cotton menstruation pads for girls and women in Africa and the Caribbean. Somewhere between 25 to 35 Black women — joined by one white woman and one Black man — ...