Gender norms, educational status threaten to curb teenage girls'aspirations

Yet, as more girls strive for better opportunities, they are challenged by lagging gender parity and the inability to complete secondary education

Every fifth teenage Indian girl is currently not studying, dropouts increase with an increase in age, nearly every second teenage Indian girl believes boys have better opportunities to pursue education and work, and only one in five believes that boys can do as much household work as themselves.

These are some of the findings of a new survey report, the Teen Age Girls report (or the TAG report), released by Nanhi Kali, a project by the Naandi Foundation, which works with adolescent girls.

Even as the aspirations of teenage girls soar--seven in 10 teenage Indian