boychild empowerment
THE NEWLY NEGLECTED GENDER
Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities. Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has called on society to support endeavors to educate the boy child, even as it advocates girl child education. “Having done so much for the girl child, what do we do for the boy child who seems to be lagging behind? I personally think that it is time we encouraged the boy child in his education to bring a balance into proportion into the country's educated population because if women constitute 50 percent of the population, the men constitute the other 50 percent so we cannot exclude the participation of either gender. The inevitable negative results will definitely be a drastic loss of necessary human capital. It is for this reason that I now appreciate the importance of bringing a good balance to both the boy and girl child in their education. We are looking at education that empowers, we are talking about education that gives skills and builds self-confidence,” Mrs. Rawlings emphasized.
Over the years, emphasis has been laid on empowering the girl child and as such neglecting the boy child.The issues on the boy child unlike the girl child currently in our societies have to a large extent being ignored. This is to ascertain that while emphasis is stressed on the empowerment of the girl child on one hand, the boy child issues are still lagging behind. These emphases however important and appropriate they may be, have led to the negligence on the issues facing the boy child. Unfortunately, when the term boy child is mentioned in any forum, most people make a limited mental reference to a male child and his access to education or lack of it, or to the lower standards of education available to him when compared to his counterpart, the girl child. The boy child, despite how society chooses to treat him, is still vulnerable. He is a child, just like
Empowerment refers to increasing the spiritual, political, social, educational, gender, or economic strength of individuals and communities. Former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings has called on society to support endeavors to educate the boy child, even as it advocates girl child education. “Having done so much for the girl child, what do we do for the boy child who seems to be lagging behind? I personally think that it is time we encouraged the boy child in his education to bring a balance into proportion into the country's educated population because if women constitute 50 percent of the population, the men constitute the other 50 percent so we cannot exclude the participation of either gender. The inevitable negative results will definitely be a drastic loss of necessary human capital. It is for this reason that I now appreciate the importance of bringing a good balance to both the boy and girl child in their education. We are looking at education that empowers, we are talking about education that gives skills and builds self-confidence,” Mrs. Rawlings emphasized.
Over the years, emphasis has been laid on empowering the girl child and as such neglecting the boy child.The issues on the boy child unlike the girl child currently in our societies have to a large extent being ignored. This is to ascertain that while emphasis is stressed on the empowerment of the girl child on one hand, the boy child issues are still lagging behind. These emphases however important and appropriate they may be, have led to the negligence on the issues facing the boy child. Unfortunately, when the term boy child is mentioned in any forum, most people make a limited mental reference to a male child and his access to education or lack of it, or to the lower standards of education available to him when compared to his counterpart, the girl child. The boy child, despite how society chooses to treat him, is still vulnerable. He is a child, just like