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Girls more likely to decide which university they aim to attend before 15

Young girls also spend more time on computers doing homework than boys

They are also less likely to be happy with their looks in their early teens

Girls are also less likely to be happy about family life and possessions

Girls are often not as happy as boys - but they make up for it with hard work and ambition, a study has found.

Girls are less likely to be happy with their looks than boys in their late childhood and early teenage years.

They are also less likely to say they are happy in their family or draw contentment from their possessions, the Office for National Statistics data shows.

But in terms of ambition, girls spend more time on the computer doing homework - while boys tend to use it to play games.

And girls are markedly more likely than boys to decide before the age of 15 that they want to go to university. The findings are part of an ONS scheme to measure the nation's well-being.

Its report was based on large national surveys combined with charity and academic research.

It said: 'Children's well-being is an important part of the nation's well-being. A significant minority of UK children suffer from low well-being, which impacts on their childhood and life chances.'

The report did not take into account the kind of family that children came from, for example whether their parents were married. It focused instead on issues that were seen as important to young people.

It identified satisfaction with appearance as a key aspect of overall well-being, adding: 'Lower levels of satisfaction could be linked to the high importance of image in the current culture, or greater public scrutiny occurring from increasing use of various media.'

Between the ages of ten and 15, girls were more than twice as likely as boys to feel unhappy with their appearance.

Almost one in five girls - 17 per cent - said they were unhappy with how they looked, compared to just 8 per cent of boys.

Fewer girls than boys were happy with their family life. Nearly two-thirds of boys rated their happiness with their family as high - 62 per cent - while 56 per cent of girls said the same.

And some 66 per cent of boys were happy with their possessions, against 61 per cent of girls.

But the report found evidence of greater determination to work hard among girls. Some 83 per cent of girls said they wanted to go to university. Only 69 per cent of boys agreed.

Nearly three out of four girls, 73 per cent, used the family computer to do homework at least once a week, compared with 67 per cent of boys. When asked how long they spent playing computer games on a typical school night, 73 per cent of boys said it was up to three hours, while only 67 per cent of girls said the same.

Boys were nearly twice as likely as girls to spend more than four hours playing computer games - 9 per cent against 5 per cent.

The report found that almost all children played some sport. Among 11 to 15-year-olds, 99 per cent of boys and 95 per cent of girls had played sport in the month before the survey.

Half of all children in the age group played football.

The ONS said that more children now talk to their mother once a week about things that matter than did so in 2002: 61 per cent compared to 51 per cent.

It also estimated that around one in eight children are frequently bullied. But three-quarters say their happiness and life satisfaction are high.

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Girls work far harder than boys but they're not nearly as happy

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Being pretty is so, so hard. We know this because the the world's largest news site Daily Mail has a feature on it!

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Being pretty is so, so hard. We know this because the the world's largest news site Daily Mail has a feature on it! Keep in mind, the Daily Mail has been very good at keeping us on our angry Internet toes lately, what with their groundbreaking pieces on successful, attractive, popular virgins and whatnot, so grains of salt (or whatever sort of thing a gorgeous person eats to keep her grounded) should be taken with this latest piece, which, along with horrified reactions and anger, is getting a gazillion page views. There are handily lots of pictures, which is the key thing with a baiting piece like this, which inherently wants people to say, "No, she's not that pretty!"

But on to the content, which is, of course, the important part! Woe is Samantha Brick, the 41-year-old woman with nice-enough-no-model looks who has taken it upon herself to reveal the trials of her beauty upon the pages of a daily newspaper. Some of the terrible things she's bravely faced (smilingly, attractively, of course) include the following:

Being given free bottles of champagne on airlines after she boards (what, no chartering for Ms. Gorgeous?).

Getting a free train ticket, and her cab fare paid for.

Being presented with a beautiful bouquet of flowers from a stranger.

Getting tons of free drinks.

All this just for smiling and being generally OK-looking and blonde! What do you know? Brick goes on to say that if you're a woman reading this, you hate her. Because while doors have opened because she's pretty, even though she's not smug about it, no way, no how, the doors have closed, too. Women are shallow and despise her because they're jealous! She's been denied promotions. Women have dumped her as a friend. A woman ignored her street-wave recently! Men are threatened, even though, of course, she's happily married to a kind, generous soul who appreciates her, beauty and all. But worst of all:

"Not one girlfriend has ever asked me to be her bridesmaid."

Oh, the horror of life as a beautiful woman. Imagine an entire life spent without ever having the chance to wear some off-the-rack frilly concoction (that you paid for) that makes you look fat next to your bestest female friend as you stand surrounded by other bestest female friends all wearing the same fatifying frilly outfit. Imagine a long, lonely life of saying "Always a bride, never a bridesmaid!" A person so cursed cannot possibly die happy. It's all so terribly brutal and horrifying. Beauty, you are a cruel mistress.

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Why do so many women feel competitive with members of their own gender, or feel the need to destroy the self-esteem of a woman who is enjoying who she is?

We all love films like Mean Girls and Bridesmaids, but so few people seem to get the messages of these movies. Put the tired trope of woman vs. woman to rest, and just accept one another!

Love yourself.

Love your friends.

Love your weird old cat lady down the street who said you have fat arms, and the cutthroat harpy who stole your boyfriend.

Love your big sis who everyone calls "The Pretty Sister", and that girl in biology who even looks good in a cardigan and always knows the answers to the pop quizzes.

Love that girl in your Facebook feed who went to junior high with you, who oh-my-God how is she engaged already and there's no way they can afford that ring on a teacher's salary and seriously, her voice is so nasally and seriously? They're honeymooning in Europe? Seriously?

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Why do so many women feel competitive with members of their own gender, or feel the need to destroy the self-esteem of a woman who is enjoying who she is? We all love films like Mean Girls and Bridesmaids, but so few people seem to get the messages of these movies.

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Is life Harder for Men then Women Today?

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Because girls have more to deal with. They have their periods. And get cramps