Girls Inc. Current Publications

Activities for Girls

Know Your Rights: An Action Kit for Girls
$10.00 • (© 2000) • 28 pages
This creative action kit contains twenty-five pages of activities and resources for girls of all ages to do individually, or with family or friends, that will help them understand, value and assert their rights. The activities deal with issues such as body image, community activism, careers, healthy risk-taking, and self-discovery.

Money Matters: An Economic Literacy Kit for Girls
(© 1999) • 8 pages • Illustrated
The exercises in this action kit will help girls develop their skills by building on the knowledge and experience they already have dealing with money. Each section provides activities for understanding how money relates to a girl's life for her to do individually, or with family or friends.

In Their Own Words: Young Women Write About Their Lives
$3.50 • (© 1993) • 68 pages
This is a collection of poems and stories by Girls Incorporated girls and young women who write with honesty and clarity about their experiences and ideas.

Luann Becomes a Woman
© 1993 • 5 pages • Illustrated
This entertaining and educational booklet, which includes cartoon strips created by nationally syndicated cartoonist Greg Evans, explains menstruation as a natural and positive event in a girl's life.

Girls' Rights Materials

I Know My Rights Poster
(© 2000) • Printed in Black/White
This portrait of a young girl was photographed by Joan Beard and created by Plowshare group. Along with the title I know my rights, is included the "Girls' Bill of Rights", alongside the frame of the young girl.

Girls' Bill of Rights Poster
$1.00 • (© 2000) • Printed in Green
This poster lists the Girls Inc.® "Girls' Bill of Rights," which was adopted by the organization in 1945. In it's vibrant green colors, it blares the importance of these rights while informing you of them as well. (Printed by Merck, produced by Nickelodeon.)

Know Your Rights: An Action Kit for Girls
(© 2000) • 28 pages
This creative action kit contains twenty-five pages of activities and resources for girls of all ages to do individually, or with family or friends, that will help them understand, value and assert their rights. The activities deal with issues such as body image, community activism, careers, healthy risk-taking, and self-discovery.

Start a Girls Inc.

Girls Incorporated Identity Brochure
Taking the Lead: Girls' Rights in the 21st Century
(© 2000) With programs that are grounded in research and tested in the field, our organization celebrates and empowers girls, and advocates for an equitable world.

Choosing Community: Girls Get Together to Be Themselves
Executive Summary commissioned by Girls Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive, Inc.
Free • (© 2001) • 21 pages
This survey - which included a nationally representative sample of 1,933 public-school students in grades 3 through 12 and a nationally representative sample of 2,447 adults - focused on the role of girls' communities in supporting girls in exercising their right to be themselves and resist gender stereotypes.

No Turning Back: Milestones for Girls in the Twentieth Century
$12.95 • (© 1995)
By Edith B. Phelps • 164 pages • Paperback In this book, Edith B. Phelps, former national executive director of Girls Inc., recounts the tradition of action taken by women on behalf of girls in the twentieth century. With stories of her own struggles and successes, Phelps gives the reader an inside look at an astonishing period of social change and upheaval.

Research

Taking the Lead: Girls' Rights in the 21st Century
Executive Summary commissioned by Girls Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive, Inc.
Free • (© 2000) • 16 pages
In this nationally representative survey about girls' rights, girls have told us that they want this world for themselves. We asked two thousand girls and boys in grades 3 through 12 to tell us what rights girls have and don't have and how those rights shape girls' lives today and their hopes for the future.

Prevention and Parity: Girls in Juvenile Justice
$12.00 • (© 1996)
Gives a general perception of the juvenile system and how girls tend to be ignored. Most literature is focused on boys, and this gives an insight to what needs to be fixed and changed.

What's Equal? Figuring Out What Works for Girls In Coed Settings
$12.00 • (© 1993) • 22 pages
This report serves as an excellent resource for parents and educators committed to creating a non-sexist learning environment in which girls and boys can explore their full potential.

Past the Pink & Blue Predicament: Freeing the Next Generation from Sex Stereotypes
$2.00 • (© 1992) • 25 pages
This report is a review and summary of research about gender. The booklet discusses ways that boys and girls differ and ways they do not, dispelling long-held myths about our nature as human beings. Research reveals how our society's preoccupation with gender differences plays a huge role in ensuring discrimination against the women and girls of tomorrow.