Plan International UK’s ‘State of Girl’s Rights in the UK’ report surveyed nearly 3,000 girls and young women aged 12 to 21 from across the UK, and found that they feel let down by a lack of progress on gender equality and safety concerns.
The lives of girls were found to be to be tougher in specific parts of the UK, with Grimsby and Cleethorpes ranking as the toughest, followed by Blackpool, Barrow-in-Furness, Rochdale and Knowsley.
Places which were ranked higher included East Dunbartonshire, Sutton, in Surrey, and South Oxfordshire. Researchers ranked regions after looking at girls' participation in education, employment and training, healthy life expectancy, gender pay gap and science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) uptake at A Level.
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