Raytheon: Boys & Girls Clubs of America

6 tips for designing programs to better serve girls

Gender and youth development experts discuss knowledge gaps and challenges around designing programs to support girls facing forced marriage, FGM and other threats to their health and rights, and provide six recommendations.

How to Help Me Get to Heaven: 15 Guys and Girls Weigh In

So, I asked 15 people who I know are striving for Heaven, what guys and girls can start doing to help them grow closer to God.

Why is child marriage a form of violence against women and girls?

We cannot hope to end violence against women and girls without addressing a practice that leaves girls vulnerable to many forms of violence: child marriage.

What we do: Ending violence against women

Violence against women and girls is a grave violation of human rights. Its impact ranges from immediate to long-term multiple physical, sexual and mental consequences for women and girls, including death.

Lessons I Learned as a Dominatrix: 10 Things That Don’t Exist

They say you can take the girl out of the dungeon, but you can’t take the dungeon out of the girl.

Violence and child marriage: The many risks refugee girls face

As girls grow up, they face challenges at every turn. For refugee girls, those risks and challenges can be life-threatening. Learn why they face violence, abuse, early marriage and isolation — and how we're helping them cope.

When Your Teen is Dating an Abuser

If you think domestic violence is limited to adults, you’d be incorrect. In a recent survey, approximately 1.5 million U.S. high schoolers—both boys and girls—admitted to being victims of physic...

Watch What Happens When These Boys Are Asked to Slap a Girl

The video demonstrates why violence against women is everyone's problem.

Who Would You Cast in a 'First Wives Club' Remake?

Researchers Use High-Tech Dress To Show Just How Often Women Are Groped At Clubs

Now that technology can show harassment, will women be believed?

These Mean Girls Bullied His Sister At First. This Is What He Did About It.

Americans Take Pain Of Girls Less Seriously Than That Of Boys, Study Finds

Our long-held notions of boys as being more stoic and girls as being more expressive may lead Americans to overrate the severity of male physical pain.

Do boys face more dating violence than girls?

In Juvenile Detention, Girls Find Health System Geared To Boys

A growing number of teenage girls are incarcerated each year. Many have injuries consistent with sexual assault, and up to a third are or have been pregnant. But the care provided in detention is often inadequate for girls because the assessment of their needs misses the mark.

What Is a Girl Worth?

Rachael Denhollander’s What Is a Girl Worth? is a hard book to read. But it’s also an important book to read. While it tells of the horrendous crimes perpetrated by just one man, it warns that many similar crimes have been and are being perpetrated by a great many other predators. While it focuses largely on one woman’s suffering, it reveals how so many other victims have suffered as a consequence of crimes committed against them. And while it tells …

Finding Girls Ministry Volunteers

Not everyone is cut out for girls ministry. It can be tempting to give an open invitation to the women in your church in order to find volunteers, especially when you need help, but doing so you ma…

A Teen Girl’s Guide To Growing in Christ

It can’t be easy to be a teen girl. Though I suppose there has probably never been a context in which coming of age was free from all challenges, there’s no doubt that the twenty-first century offers some new and unique ones. And if it can’t be easy to be a teen girl, it can’t be any easier to be a Christian teen girl who is already following the narrow road that leads toward Christ but which also leads her …

The Good Girl's Guide to Staying Alive

When it comes to true crime, women are often both victim and audience. Why are female readers drawn to tales of their own destruction?

10 Things Every Catholic VSCO Girl Needs

Do you find yourself saying things like “sksksk” more often than should ever feel natural? How about your social media? Are you constantly posting, especially if something has the least bit of an artsy aesthetic? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you just might be a VSCO girl!

A girl or woman you know could be a sex slave

A woman who as a teen was forced into sex trafficking reconnects with the woman who rescued her.