The past two years have been somewhat challenging to me with regard to empowerment of girls and women. I have been working in a project that seeks to eradicate violence against the girl child. Often I have found myself having to defend the decision to undertake this project. This is because of the increasingly growing concern on the so called over focusing (if there is any word like that) on girls and marginalizing boys. Of course I don’t see the point in this argument. But the frequency and the intensity in which the debate is growing is very worrying.