Sentences with phrase «in girl boy»

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When the researchers looked at data from that particular study, they found that taller boys and girls performed significantly better at age 3 on a test in which they had to point to pictures of different words.

All throughout the world, girls outperform boys in school.

Both boys and girls are the victims of this cultural heritage, which is one reason I'm excited to see more men in the conversation.

That won't surprise anyone who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 % more than similar products aimed at boys.

When it comes to toys, a consistent finding is that boys (and juvenile male monkeys) strongly prefer to play with mechanical toys over plush toys or dolls, while girls (and female juvenile monkeys) show equivalent interest in the two.

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

«Ninety - nine percent of teenage boys and 94 percent of teenage girls in this country play online games,» she says, equating the acceptance of gaming by the next generation to TV watching.

And now, after a decade of collaboration in which they had meshed as tightly as gear cogs, calling each other «Boy» and «Girl,» Diane told him she had had enough.

The College Board is partnering with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to promote the new program in communities where students may not have home computers.

In addition to the school purchases, the organization also plans on buying micro: bits for organizations that serve disadvantaged youth, including the Boys and Girls Club.

Coding is a universal language of the future, and when you think about jobs in the future, this is a skill that young kids, girls and boys, really need to succeed.

«Particularly as the only girl in an all - boy fantasy.

After her death, it became clear that the boy was, in fact, a creation of the mother of one of the girl's former friends.

According to reports, the woman, Lori Drew, had established a fake MySpace account for a fictitious 18 - year - old boy in hopes of finding out what the girl was saying about her daughter online.

What happens to boys in tech is in many ways different than what happens to girls in tech.

In 2006, a 13 - year - old girl committed suicide after being harassed repeatedly on MySpace by someone she thought was an 18 - year - old boy.

«In some of the refugee camps, girls, once they hit the age of 12, aren't allowed to play outside because they are considered too tempting for the boys,» said Matthews.

That could cause you to get in touch with your inner child (try, for example, to tear my husband away from the Star Wars section), but it can also be an occasion for feminist rage if you happen to notice that everything from dinosaurs to chemistry kits to toy trains are marked «for boys,» while girls get... glitter and toy irons?

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

About 40 % of the girls born in Britain in 2013, for example, are expected to live to 100 (the percentage of boys is just behind that).

According to the TD report, recent research indicates that boys demonstrate more confidence in math and more voluntary participation in high school and university math classes, implying that more effective methods of «developing numeracy skills and confidence» in young girls are needed.

As Variety notes, the suit's plaintiff, George St. George, bought a ticket to Shlesinger's show at Largo at The Coronet on November 13, which was advertised as «Girls Night In with Iliza — No Boys Allowed.»

Jobs for every boy and girl — that's what the Broadbent Institute is proposing, in a paper calling for a Youth Job Guarantee.

Median Salary: $ 92,060 The little boy or little girl in you just tends to think of being a pilot as cool (and it is) but it's also pretty stressful.

While venture capital partners have more sons than daughters, about 125 boys for 114 girls, its roughly in line with the national demographic of 51 % boys.

Last September, the organization also announced that it will raise additional funds to rebuild centers run by the Boys and Girls Club in San Juan, Bayamón, Carolina, Loíza, Isabela, Arecibo, Mayagüez, Aguas Buenas, and San Lorenzo.

There are no strictly «boy» or «girl» toys at this online retailer — just a plan to make sure every kid is in on the fun.

The Liberals have also put this budget through a gender - based analysis, which involves thinking about how a certain measure might affect men and women, or boys and girls, in a different ways, while accounting for other intersecting factors such as income, ethnicity, disability and sexual orientation.

«I think there's always the «good ol' boy» syndrome when it's a girl in business,» Dolly Parton tells CNBC, when talking about her early start in the music industry.

The defining moment occurred at a Boys & Girls Club in Tampa, Fla., where DiBenedetto's nonprofit association, the Tampa Bay Technology Forum, was unveiling a batch of computers for use by children who had none.

And since Zoomer would be marketed to both genders, for the launch it would be positioned in neither the boys» section nor the girls» but in the «end caps» at the ends of the aisles.

In other words, boys are able to do the same things girls are allowed to and vice versa.

«Scouts BSA» smells like a compromise between at least two groups: traditionalists who didn't want girls in the Boy Scouts to begin with, and other groups that are more progressive, or that at least that think that demographics are destiny — and that a half - step towards the future is better than none.

Democrats are much more in favor of the idea of exposing girls and boys to toys and activities normally associated with the opposite gender,» Pew researchers note.

On the other hand, more Republicans than Democrats say it's a bad thing to encourage young boys to play with toys or participate in activities typically associated with girls.

Still, women are more likely than men to say that deviating from traditional gender norms is a good approach to take in raising both girls and boys.

Democrats and Republicans are somewhat on the same side when it comes to encouraging girls to engage in traditionally - boy dominated activities, but Democrats feel more strongly about this being a good idea (80 percent of Democrats say it's a good idea compared with about 66 percent of Republicans).

«If you think about what Canadians like in their brands, it's that sense that they're the boy and girl next door,» says Alan Middleton, assistant professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business.

NEW YORK — Responding to the Boy Scouts» decision to open up their organization to all genders, the Girl Scouts of America officially announced Thursday that they'll never ever let any gross - ass fucking boys in.

In turn, that helps every boy who dreams of being a caregiver when he grows up and every girl who dreams of being an engineer.

Leilani and Amanda were the only two Kode With Karlie scholars in their class of 10 students, which was roughly an even mix of girls and boys.

Today, Milton Hershey School, the institution he and his wife founded, nurtures more than 2,000 financially needy boys and girls in grades K - 12.

The Boy Scouts have unveiled a historic name change to go with the major shift of allowing girls in the organization.

Murad Hemmadi / Canadian Business Jobs for every boy and girl — that's what the Broadbent Institute is proposing, in a paper calling for a Youth Job Guarantee.

PJ, his wife, their two young boys, newly added baby girl, and an energetic boxer reside in Richmond's West End.

The driver who struck and killed a 4 - year - old girl and 20 - month - old boy in Brooklyn in March was charged with second - degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

Surrounded by several affordable housing complexes, Downey serves as a central gathering place for the surrounding community, offering an afterschool program with the Harrisburg Boys & Girls Club and a health clinic in partnership with the Hamilton Health Center.

and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) that not only were they giving the Boys and Girls Club a new playground but that the community would build it in only six hours, I knew this was going to be something I would have to see to believe.

Hi Yolanda, Thank you for this great description of all that went in to making the new playground possible at Los Angeles Boys & Girls Club.

He is also very active in his community with board positions that include City Year, an organization that recruits young people for community service in 24 U.S. cities, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, and Massachusetts General Hospital.