The provision of toilets and menstrual supplies appears to be a promising strategy to promote adolescent girls' school attendance and performance in less developed countries. In this article, we use the first round of the Malawi Schooling and Adolescent Survey (MSAS) to examine the individual- and school-level factors associated with…

Explored how Irish girls from different social classes negotiated the transition from elementary to secondary education and how their classed and gendered identities were produced and reproduced during the transition. The transition was especially challenging for working class girls who experienced emotional pain and loss in leaving familiar…