Yes.
I think it's very important to not think of girls as all the same, as one group that has exactly the same issues.
We also work with girls across the country—we're talking more about girls and less about young women, so a younger age group. What we see is that it's not so much about employment but more about the building blocks of self-esteem, confidence, seeing people they admire, setting higher goals for themselves, and also taking those steps towards their goals.
That's why confidence and freedom from harassment and violence, as well as role modelling, are very important for that adolescent and pre-adolescent age group.
We're currently leading a project right now, Girls Action Foundation, in partnership with girl-serving organizations and rural communities across Canada. We're very pleased; we'll have our results soon. Because girls in those areas face the unique challenges of more difficult economic circumstances, fewer choices of career and education, and the need to go out of their community often for post-secondary education—it's harder to access support if they are experiencing violence.
There are often more traditional gender expectations of women to fulfill the mother role only, and so on.
There definitely are unique challenges. We're also working with some first nations as well. While they face many of the same challenges as rural communities do, being isolated and dependent on resource economies, they also have the additional challenges of the history of colonialism as it has impacted their families and caused a lot of difficulties—barriers to get over in terms of success—financial, parenting, and so on.