It's a question worth asking after new research from Plan International UK listed five areas of our region as the five toughest places in the UK to be a girl, taking into account measures including education, employment and life expectancy.
The State of Girls' Rights in the UK 2024 report also looked at factors such as the gender pay gap and uptake of science, technology and maths subjects at A-Level, in order to rank how local authority areas performed.
North East Lincolnshire - an area taking in Grimsby and Cleethorpes came out worst, with Blackpool, Barrow-in-Furness (now Westmorland and Furness), Rochdale and Knowsley making up the rest of the top five.
This story is from the July 21, 2024 edition of MEN on Sunday.
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