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Of course, there are downsides to teaching so many girls. They can react in unexpected ways - like the time my Year 7 class all went "Ahhh!" when they saw a squirrel outside the window. But the biggest benefit is that you're teaching enquiring minds with a mature approach to study. And that's why girls' schools should lead the league tables for some time to come.

Liberia gets all-female peacekeeping force

By Will Ross

BBC News

01/31/2007

A unit of United Nations peacekeepers with a difference has arrived for work in Liberia - they are all women.

More than 100 female peacekeepers from India are there to work as an armed police unit to help stabilise Liberia which, after years of war, is trying to rebuild its own police force from scratch.

Stepping off the chartered plane in immaculate blue uniforms and berets, the 103 women were immediately on parade and probably bewildered by the media frenzy.

It is just a coincidence that the first all-female peacekeeping force is in Liberia, the first African country to elect a female president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.

Crime is high especially in Monrovia and the war has left a degree of violence simmering just below the surface.

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But having served in turbulent areas, including parts of northern India, the commander Seema Dhundiya says they are well prepared.