Because I am a girl
By: principal writer: Nikki Van Der Gaag ; project manager: Feyi Rodway
Contributors: Plan (Organization); Plan UK
Publisher: Plan International
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Woking, Surrey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780955047909
Subjects: Girls; Social conditions
Other titles: State of the world's girls 2007
Notes: Bibliographical references: pages 122-130.
Table of contents: title: Survival: 100 million girls are missing; title: Family life: Girls spend much more time on domestic, non-economic work than boys, and have less time for school and play; title: Education: 62 million girls are not in primary school; title: Health: two-thirds of 15-19 year olds newly infected with HIV in sub-Saharan African are girls; title: Making a living: seventy per cent of the 1.5 billion people living on $1 a day or less are female; title: Girls in exceptionally difficult circumstances: nearly 50 per cent of sexual assaults worldwide are against girls 15 years or younger; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: Tables.