There’s a strange phenomenon that exists within global childhood educational opportunities. In the least developed nations we all know that it is women and girls who are disadvantaged in school; and work is being done to help alleviate the problem (largely around empowering reproductive control and lowering mortality rates in childbirth). But did you know, as a country moves up the developmental index, the problem flips and boys and men start to fall behind? Yes, across virtually the entire Western world, boys are behind in education, at every age group and at every stage. You won’t hear about this crisis much, but it exists none the less, and has done so for decades. It is here that we need to have two thoughts at the same time, and start to understand that boys and girls are both simultaneously disadvantaged in education, depending on where we are. But whilst this cognitive dissonance is too much for some, I do see some progress being made. So much so that public concern over boys is one of the few political stances that every body seems aligned on. Because when asked – the left, the right, women and men, all agreed, we’re more worried about our sons, than our daughters. So where is the action? ~ Source More worried about sons https://tinyurl.com/4xknnktz Enrolment drop COVID 19 https://tinyurl.com/3pxn5rvb Enrolment over time https://tinyurl.com/7fd7tkjj Basic Index of Gender Inequality https://tinyurl.com/3xkc7swu [1] https://tinyurl.com/hc36vyyn Andrew Yang https://tinyurl.com/yc2jv43r ~ Images by Dan Cristian Padure, Gradienta, Jeswin Thomas, Tim Gout and Amevi Wisdom from Unsplash.

2022-11-10