The Zelatrices/Apostles of the Sacred Heart still operate Sacred Heart Academy in Hamden, which is a preparatory school for high school-aged girls.
The school-aged girl in a school uniform is also an erotic symbol in Japan, comparable to the image of a woman in a mini-skirt in the United States.
While in the home, school-aged girls received minimal education, with most kept occupied in training as domestic servants.
Every year, the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day program brings middle school-aged girls to the lab to meet women researchers and participate in hands-on science experiments.
A girl with ADHD may be labeled Chatty Cathy - the enthusiastic school-aged girl who is always telling stories to friends.
The female participants range from primarily school-aged girls to housewives.
Though she primarily writes manga of the josei demographic, her most popular series, Sugar Sugar Rune, (serialized in Nakayoshi) is targeted at primary school-aged girls.
In the 1980s and 1990s, her products - including school supplies such as lunchboxes and Trapper Keepers, as well as toys and stickers - were extremely popular among middle school-aged girls.
Beyond that, enrollment among primary school-aged girls is 8 percent lower than among boys, according to the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef.