She says Ruth Handler wanted the dolls to help girls think about what they wanted to do with their lives.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

Girls like flowers and sunshine and laughter and young people,you know, and she didn't get any of them at home.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

These included questions from Rwandan students about subjects like drug use, H.I.V./AIDS and girls in school who get pregnant.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

But human rights groups say the United States must do more to help protect women and girls in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

In Kenya,a project aims to educate girls about H.I.V.prevention while helping them stay in school during their monthly periods.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Miz McClellan said. She said Wilma Mankiller meant so much to girls who had no power at that time.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Girls screamed as they tried to get a look at John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

There aren't very many examples of names which are equally popular for both boys and girls for a really long period."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

By two thousand seven,however, the numbers were down to less than ten percent of boys and only eight percent of girls.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The incidents included the murder of a civil rights activist in Mississippi and the killings of four young girls in Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The conference centered on three main problems to getting and keeping girls in school: violence,poverty and poor quality education.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

The U.N.Girls' Education Initiative organized the meeting of two hundred scholars, aid workers and government officials from twenty-two countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

"Why did you have to marry me when there were so many other girls to choose from?" she asked.

VOA: special.2009.06.27