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In this special report, Glamour's editor in chief, Samatha Barry, traveled to Africa with Clooney, Gates, and Obama to meet the schoolgirls and organizations carving out a different path—and witness the power of female friendship in action.
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2025
Afghan schoolgirls in Kabul attend class on the first day of the new school year in 2023.Ebrahim Noroozi / AP file
No foreign government has formally recognized the Taliban because of their restrictive stance on women, while the United Nations has repeatedly denounced the government.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2025
Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl.
—Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 17 Jan. 2025
Afghan schoolgirls in Kabul attend class on the first day of the new school year in 2023.Ebrahim Noroozi / AP file
No foreign government has formally recognized the Taliban because of their restrictive stance on women, while the United Nations has repeatedly denounced the government.
—Astha Rajvanshi, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2025
Other finds served as messages from the past, connecting 17th-century schoolgirls to modern archaeologists, who uncovered the students’ decorative paper cuttings beneath the floorboards of their former London boarding school.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Her navy polo, gaucho shorts, and makeup-free face evoked an innocent schoolgirl.
—Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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“Schoolgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolgirl. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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schoolgirl
noun
school·girl
-ˌgər(-ə)l 
: a girl attending school
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