Real Choices, Real Lives: Violence in Girls' Daily Lives

Global research with girls and women over the years has indicated that violence is one of the key barriers to gender equality. Girls talk about their experience of it at home, at school and in their wider communities. They do not feel safe. Both the fear and the fact of violence saps girls’ confidence, and limits their opportunities – it keeps them 'in their place'. This year we looked specifically at the experiences of violence among the girls and their families taking part in Plan International UK’s Real Choices, Real Lives cohort study sample. The analysis found that as girls grow so does their experience of violence and, as with the wider research, it happens at home, at school and in the community.