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Girls' happiness hits an all-time low - Girlguiding survey

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IwantToRetire · 13/09/2023 19:12

Girlguiding's Girls' Attitudes Survey reveals girls' happiness levels have significantly declined over the past 15 years

  • New Girlguiding research reveals girls’ happiness levels have significantly declined over the past 15 years, with only 17% of girls aged 7-21 stating they feel very happy, compared to 40% in 2009
  • 89% of girls and young women aged 7-21 feel generally worried or anxious
  • Girlguiding is calling on the UK government to take urgent action to revert the decline in girls’ happiness and address the sexual harassment, online harms and appearance pressures they face.
Girls’ happiness levels have reached an all-time low according to Girlguiding. The charity’s 15th annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey, supported by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery, reveals a steady decline in girls’ happiness year on year and an increase in stress and anxiety since 2009. For 15 years, Girlguiding has released its annual Girls’ Attitudes Survey documenting how girls feel about their everyday lives, the pressures they face and the issues they care about. This year's findings reveal there are areas in girls' lives that are worse than when the survey began in 2009, and they're less happy. The number of girls who describe themselves as very happy has decreased significantly (40% in 2009 down to 17% in 2023), with the steepest decline in girls aged 7-10 (57% in 2009 compared to 28% in 2023). The survey also revealed that 89% of girls aged 7-21 feel worried or anxious, compared to 78% in 2016, with girls’ worries ranging from appearance pressures, online harms to being sexually harassed. Full press release and link to report https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/about-us/press-releases/girls-attitudes-survey-2023/
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BeastOfBODMAS · 27/09/2023 13:52

Ah ok! I had an invite to complete by email this morning

TWETMIRF · 27/09/2023 13:18

I logged in but didn't get questions about GG unfortunately

BeastOfBODMAS · 27/09/2023 08:45

If anyone is on YouGov, there is a survey today seeking opinions on girlguiding . There are some free text answer boxes, for impressions of the organisation and what would make people want to volunteer. Though you should all know

ArabeIIaScott · 18/09/2023 23:10

ResisterRex · 18/09/2023 21:19

Fuck. What else is about to get buried come out? Shock

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Datun · 18/09/2023 23:04

Eggybrains · 18/09/2023 22:24

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/monica-sulley-the-cops-step-in

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Ugh.

I bloody well hope there is a massive expose in the press.

I get the impression that, the Mail, at least, keeps thinking this will do it.

I hope to god that, at some point, they're right.

Eggybrains · 18/09/2023 22:24

Eggybrains · 18/09/2023 20:11

Girlguiding also concluded their investigation that she’d done nothing wrong. Glimmer posted about it. She just chose to leave

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https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/monica-sulley-the-cops-step-in

Girls' happiness hits an all-time low - Girlguiding survey
ResisterRex · 18/09/2023 21:19

Piffpaffpoff · 18/09/2023 20:48

As an aside, I noticed on my LinkedIn today that the Guides are looking for a Senior PR Officer. The last sentence of the job ad says they are looking for a candidate with experience in "crisis and reputational risk management." Anyone fancy it?

Fuck. What else is about to get buried come out? Shock

ClearThisUp · 18/09/2023 21:01

I bet.
It must be horrible to be growing up today.

Violent porn is on everyone’s screens, parents don’t care.

Sexual assaults, that has always been happening, but now younger and younger boys are doing the assaulting.

Insane, impossible beauty standards.

Pressure to have sex, also always been a thing, but now boys/men demand violent sex.
When I was young, you got calle prude and a bitch if you hadn’t had sex, I’m sure that still happens - but now you’re a prude/bitch/’vanilla’ if you don’t want to be strangled, beaten, have anal, all this ’rough’ garbage.
Awful. And how everyone must have ’kinks’ and one night stands/casual.

Online in general. Imagine reading and knowing what men are like and how they view girls and women at that young age. Usually women got to almost in their 30’s or even older to figure it out. Now boys/men show it, and brag about it.

There’s really nothing to look for girls who are straight.
When it comes to men/romance/partnership.
Nothing.
And still they are only values for looks and having male partners and eventually having kids.
Being single woman is still shameful.
Horrible place to be stuck between.

JanesLittleGirl · 18/09/2023 20:57

So the whole Establishment acts to deny the very existence of girls as a sex-based identity and then discovers that girls aren't happy. No shit!

Piffpaffpoff · 18/09/2023 20:48

As an aside, I noticed on my LinkedIn today that the Guides are looking for a Senior PR Officer. The last sentence of the job ad says they are looking for a candidate with experience in "crisis and reputational risk management." Anyone fancy it?

Froodwithatowel · 18/09/2023 20:44

Gosh say the Guides. The girls are really miserable and it's all to do with the devaluing and destruction of girlhood as anything other than resource units for males. Which we've been vigorously enabling. And plan to do absolutely fuck all about.

Datun · 18/09/2023 20:16

ArabeIIaScott · 13/09/2023 20:57

'address the sexual harassment, online harms and appearance pressures they face'

Absolutely.

Imagine if girls were placed in the care of someone like this, and told this was someone they were supposed to look up to.

And were forbidden from identifying males as males.

Men commit 99% of all sex offences. Paraphilias are virtually exclusive to men only.

But girl guides have taught girls that they cannot identify this cohort otherwise they will be bigoted.

Eggybrains · 18/09/2023 20:11

ArabeIIaScott · 13/09/2023 20:59

I see Monica is still with the Scouts.

https://notts-scouts.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-team/

'Inclusion advisor'.

Girlguiding also concluded their investigation that she’d done nothing wrong. Glimmer posted about it. She just chose to leave

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IwantToRetire · 13/09/2023 23:39

What's interesting is that they dont appear to have asked any questions about "identity".

Maybe that didn't dare because it might turn out that young girls (and probably yound men) are being made really depressed being surrounded by all the propoganda and then finding their parents are so concerned to be kind that they cant get a straight answer out of them.

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IwantToRetire · 13/09/2023 23:36

I'm not sure why it's so well respected publicised.

I think it is partly lazy journalism. A press release with a few sensational quotes, and feeds into this media theme that children today and the unluckiest generation.

The good childhood report has 44,000 respondents

Do you have a link to that?

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User478 · 13/09/2023 23:11

The Girls Attitudes Survey is such a small scale study that it's barely useful. They send online questionnaires to 2,614 (401 fewer than last year) I'm not sure why it's so well respected publicised.

The good childhood report has 44,000 respondents.

TheCheerfulNihilist · 13/09/2023 22:44

"Girls' happiness hits an all-time low"

No shit?! FFS.

ArabeIIaScott · 13/09/2023 22:27

Nobody who dressed up in a dominatrix outfit with a riding crop and posted the picture on public social media should be advising any children's organisation on anything. There was a big fuss he was in the Guides - it's just as poor safeguarding to have him in the Scouts. The pictures of him with guns were also demonstrating an absolute shocking lack of judgement and boundaries.

Wrongsideofpennines · 13/09/2023 22:14

Just wanted to point out a couple of things.

Girlguiding have surveyed girls both inside and outside of guiding.

And Girlguiding and Scouts are 2 completely separate organisations.

BabyStopCryin · 13/09/2023 21:30

They really are very dumb… let kids be kids - ditch the whole gender nonsense and let the girls go on hikes and camping, learn crafts and new skills, play games and have fun. With NO boys.

ArabeIIaScott · 13/09/2023 20:59

I see Monica is still with the Scouts.

https://notts-scouts.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-team/

'Inclusion advisor'.

Meet the team - Notts Scouts

https://notts-scouts.org.uk/about-us/meet-the-team

ResisterRex · 13/09/2023 20:58

...but that would never happen, Arabella...

ArabeIIaScott · 13/09/2023 20:57

'address the sexual harassment, online harms and appearance pressures they face'

Absolutely.

Imagine if girls were placed in the care of someone like this, and told this was someone they were supposed to look up to.

Girls' happiness hits an all-time low - Girlguiding survey