Brazilian Girls is from South America.
 Research has measured the economic cost of this inequality to developing countries: Plan Internationals analysis shows that a total of 65 low, middle income and transition countries fail to offer girls the same secondary school opportunities as boys, and in total, these countries are missing out on annual economic growth of an estimated $92 billion
In Europe, some early paintings featuring girls were Petrus Christus' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1460), Juan de Flandes' Portrait of a Young Girl (about 1505), Frans Hals' Die Amme mit dem Kind in 1620, Diego Velzquez' Las Meninas in 1656, Jan Steen's The Feast of St

