Life for a Mayan Indigenous girl is fraught with difficulty. Living primarily in remote villages, Mayan Indigenous girls are born into a rigid social structure where education is frequently not an option for them. Persistent gender discrimination, coupled with the highly gendered expectations that girls help their mothers with house chores, cooking, and caring for other family members results in Mayan Indigenous girls being far less educated than their male counterparts. But lack of education is just one component of the pervasive cycle of poverty girls face in this part of the world. . .