The Case for Girls’ Schools

Girls’ schools help reduce Threats to Girlhood by overturning the gender stereotypes that limit girls’ interests in maths and sciences, that keep girls from taking on leadership roles, that cause girls to feel self-conscious playing sports, and that limit girls’ lifelong potential.

General Mills: A Case Study on Corporate Values

Researchers at Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity have discovered that cereals marketed to children have “85% more sugar, 65% less fiber, and 60% more sodium than cereals marketed to adults for adult consumption” (1).  The Rudd Center’s research shows that the least healthy breakfast cereals on the market are the ones [...]

2010 Threats to Girlhood Report

Threats to Girlhood include all of the issues, mindsets, factors, trends, and circumstances that impact girls’ lifelong health, wellness, happiness, and ability to succeed. Identifying current Threats to Girlhood is an important step towards advancing the well being of girls, the possibilities for women, and the strength of communities.

Exploitive Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Aisle

One A Day Teen Advantage uses its advertisements to reinforce gender biases, exploit tween and teen anxieties about their physical appearance and popularity, and enflame body issues at a time when 8 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, 95% of whom are between the ages of 12 and 25 (1).

Anthropomorphized on the Silver Screen

The amount of time that children spend in front of  the TV may shock you. The average American child “has ‘spent the equivalent of three years in the tutelage of the family television set’ by the time they reach first grade” (1). While the average Australian child watches 17.5 hours of television each week, 20% [...]