Author: brandycavalli

In recent years, girls and young women are even forming breakaway girl-only gangs.

“Increasingly, girls have witnessed the status and power given to men in their gangs and decided they could run their own,” Batmanghelidjh says.

It is a view backed by experts.

“Girls form their own gangs to be in charge, to create their own identity,” says Dr Funke Baffour, a clinical psychologist.

In what can only be described as the dark side of female empowerment, Dr Baffour compares women’s thirst for ‘making it’ on the streets to women’s desire to climb their way up the career ladder in a corporate boardroom.

“It’s the same reason why women want to become a CEO of a company. It’s that sense of achievement. Running a girl gang can give them a sense of pride.

“In a mixed gang, women can still feel subordinate to men, even if they have worked their…