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Gender stereotypes and associated health risks get ingrained in children at the onset of adolescence, a new report shows.
This is also the time the myth that girls are vulnerable while boys are strong is reinforced, according to the report dubbed It Begins at Ten: How Gender Expectations Shape Early Adolescence around the World, which studied 15 countries, including Kenya, and involved some 900 adolescents.
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