Pexels.com photo by Katerina Holmes. Who's smarter in school, girls or boys? You would think girls are, based on lots of evidence. The divergence begins early. Girls are "14 percentage points more ...

When boys and girls reach adolescence, they are bombarded with messages that associate attraction with violence. These messages – from their peer group, TV series, films, music, social media, and so ...

Zaria was just 9 years old when a nurse practitioner delivered news that rocked her world: The young girl was already showing signs of puberty development, and she was on track to get her period ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a sporty American woman would have had relatively few arenas to test her skill: croquet, maybe, or archery, or basketball played gently in an ankle-length skirt.

The average age of the onset of puberty has been dropping in the last century—with some girls starting to develop breasts as early as age six or seven. These shifts in the reproductive development ...

Teenage girls are typically the least powerful and most underestimated group within Western cultures – where adults are seen as superior to children, and men are privileged above women. Girls can also ...

Preteen girls taking an interest in skincare may initially sound like a fun, healthy trend. And it’s big business: in 2023 American families with tweens aged 6 to 12 purchased 27.2% more skincare, ...