Boys at Risk : A Gender Issue in the Caribbean Requiring a Multi-Faceted and Cross-Sectoral Approach
The Latin American and Caribbean region has made significant progress in some basic indicators of gender equality (access to education and health services and female labor force participation) and lags behind in others. However, a second generation...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2010/06/12810854/boys-risk-gender-issue-caribbean-requiring-multi-faceted-cross-sectoral-approach http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10181 |
| Summary: | The Latin American and Caribbean region
has made significant progress in some basic indicators of
gender equality (access to education and health services and
female labor force participation) and lags behind in others.
However, a second generation of emerging issues suggests
that, although women continue to be disadvantaged in a
number of indicators, boys' underachievement in
education and their participation as perpetrators and
victims of violent crime require a new gender paradigm that
includes male issues. Despite the traditional focus on
female-related indicators, there is a clear gender dimension
to the problems of at-risk youth, since young boys and girls
engage in different kinds of risky behaviors and in
different ways. Boys and girls also tend to engage
differently with schools, communities, and the labor market.
This implies that programs and policies need to be designed
and implemented with different approaches and tools to
benefit and to reach effectively both girls and boys. |
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