page_title: Girl
section_title: Girls and child labor
hierarchical_section_title: Girl / Girls and child labor
caption_attribution_description: English: Honduran Workers 1999 Description: The upperleft and lowerright photos come for Tegucigalpa, while the other's are from the Choluteca area. Camera Info: OLYMPUS SR83 Digital Contact creator at http://Stockhausen.yojoa.org - This image is also available there under the directory link "Composite Group 01" as a multi-layer .xcf file.
context_page_description: A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent. When she becomes an adult, she is described as a woman. The term girl may also be used to mean a young woman, and is sometimes used as a synonym for daughter. Girl may also be a term of endearment used by an adult, usually a woman, to designate adult female friends.
  The treatment and status of girls in any society is usually closely related to the status of women in that culture. In cultures where women have a low societal position, girls may be unwanted by their parents, and the state may invest less in services for girls. Girls' upbringing ranges from being relatively the same as that of boys to complete sex segregation and completely different gender roles.
context_section_description: Gender influences the pattern of child labor. Girls tend to be asked by their families to perform more domestic work in their parental home than boys are, and often at younger ages than boys. Employment as a paid domestic worker is the most common form of child labor for girls. In some places, such as East and Southeast Asia, parents often see work as a domestic servant as a good preparation for marriage. Domestic service, however, is among the least regulated of all professions, and exposes workers to serious risks, such as violence, exploitation and abuse by the employers, because the workers are often isolated from the outside world. Child labor has a very negative effect on education. Girls either stop their education, or, when they continue it, they are often subjected to a double burden, or a triple burden of work outside the home, housework in the parental home, and schoolwork. This situation is common in places such as parts of Asia and Latin America.
caption: Girls employed in different forms of child labour in Central America
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