{"id":3761,"date":"2018-10-16T13:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:06","slug":"international-day-of-the-girl-11th-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2018\/10\/16\/international-day-of-the-girl-11th-october\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Girl &#8211; 11th October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlsandmobile.org\/\">Girls \u2018banned from using mobile phones\u2019 in many nations<br \/>\n<\/a>Shocking findings from a global survey released on the International Day of the Girl.\u00a0 The survey by Girl Effect and the Vodafone Foundation surveyed the experiences of more than 3,000 adolescent girls and boys from 25 countries examining access and usage of mobile phones.\u00a0 In some circumstances girls recorded 25% less access.\u00a0 The full results and methodology can be downloaded from the website.<\/p>\n<p>Other useful surveys include:<br \/>\nPlanUK <a href=\"https:\/\/plan-uk.org\/act-for-girls\/girls-rights-in-the-uk\">published a report on the challenges faced by girls in the UK<\/a> in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Further insight is also offered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlguiding.org.uk\/social-action-advocacy-and-campaigns\/research\/girls-attitudes-survey\/\">the Girl Guiding UK annual surveys on attitudues and problems encountered.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a wider world scale see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/gender-equality\">UNICEF gender equality section<\/a> which has recent news, reports and statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls \u2018banned from using mobile phones\u2019 in many nations Shocking findings from a global survey released on the International Day of the Girl.\u00a0 The survey by Girl Effect and the Vodafone Foundation surveyed the experiences of more than 3,000 adolescent girls and boys from 25 countries examining access and usage of mobile phones.\u00a0 In some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[383,202,495],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender-equality","tag-girls","tag-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}