Boys at Risk : A Gender Issue in the Caribbean Requiring a Multi-Faceted and Cross-Sectoral Approach
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World Bank, Washington, DC
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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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ACCESS TO EDUCATION, ADOLESCENT, ADOLESCENT HEALTH, ADULTHOOD, ADULTS, ALCOHOL, APPRENTICESHIP, COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, CURRICULUM, DECISION MAKING, DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, DRUG ABUSE, DRUGS, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, ENROLLMENT, FAMILIES, FEMALE, FORMAL EDUCATION, FORMAL SCHOOLS, GENDER, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER SENSITIVE, GENDER STEREOTYPING, GIRLS, HEALTH SERVICES, INTERVENTIONS, JOB TRAINING, JUVENILES, LABOR MARKET, LABOR MARKETS, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, LEARNING DISABILITIES, LIFE SKILLS, LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION, LITERACY, MASCULINITY, NUMERACY, PARENTAL SUPPORT, PEER PRESSURE, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, RISK FACTORS, ROLE MODELS, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY SCHOOL, SEXUAL RELATIONS, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, SKILLS TRAINING, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL MARKETING, TEACHER, TEACHER TRAINING, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TRAINING FOR TEACHERS, TRAINING PROGRAMS, VIOLENCE, VIOLENT CRIME, VOCATIONAL SKILLS, YOUNG BOYS, YOUNG MALES, YOUNG MEN, YOUNG PEOPLE, YOUTH, YOUTH PARTICIPATION, YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT