"We have been accommodating girls," Mr. Miranda said.
She is fighting to establish a transit centre, or safe house, to accommodate girls fleeing from abusive situations.
Dr. Walker, who is studying the effectiveness of keeping girls in school as a strategy for reducing high rates of early marriage in West Africa, explained that, often, schools are not receptive to accommodating married girls.
She told me of a Muslim girl who had moved into her school district and of how the school district had taken extraordinary steps to accommodate this girl's culture so as not to offend her.
She plans on putting each doll in a backpack with the corresponding books that provide their biography, and a diary to accommodate each girl's description of the visit.
Her "fate was in every way characteristic of her; she died as she did because, up to the very last moment of her life, she was kind, lazy, and accommodating: a fat girl content with her lot, who pleased herself and pleased others".
I went to a local Volvo dealer to test drive a Volvo AWD XC wagon (now, there's a backseat that will accommodate three girls, their Harry Potter cassette tapes, a magnetic travel Scrabble board and selected headless Barbies).
"UNICEF is also providing 236 tents to the governorate of Sa'ada in the north that will be used as temporary learning spaces in areas where schools are overcrowded and cannot accommodate additional girls and boys, or in areas where there is no school at all".
But access to gendered spaces is one area where the Obama administration has sought to make a big impact, moving aggressively to make an example of an Illinois school district that failed to fully accommodate a trans girl, and suing North Carolina over its broad prohibitions on transgender peoples' use of public facilities.
A woman should be kind, goes the cookie-cutter feminine ideal – accommodating, a mother, a "good girl".
