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Girls now complete lower secondary school nearly 20 percent more often than boys, and in some provinces, 1.5 girls complete school for every boy.
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Sokha works as a delivery boy ferrying boxes on his trolley at O’Russy Market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where scores of vendors sell everything from cuticle cutters to bedspreads. He earns about $100 a month here, sending almost half of it to his home village near the Vietnam border. Sokha moved to the capital to work after dropping out of school two years ago, when his father fell ill. “We had to sell our cows and a rice field to pay for his medicine,” Sokha says. Now, far from his family, he can’t afford much. “I’m so bored,” he says. “But I don’t miss school — I wasn’t very good at it.”
“It’s assumed that boys will be able to make more money, so there is a lot of pressure from families pushing them into work.”
Sokha is one of many children who have dropped out of school to work in Cambodia, a country where education is not compulsory. Only half of Cambodia’s 12 to 14 year olds attend school. But government figures show boys are particularly likely to leave school, often because their families expect them to be breadwinners.
The disparity indicates an alarming and growing problem: Successful educational interventions have improved girls’ graduation rates — but boys are being left behind. Nationwide data shows girls now complete lower secondary school nearly 20 percent more often than boys; in some provinces, like Siem Reap, home of the famous Angkor Wat temples, nearly 1.5 girls complete school for every boy.
Historically, women in Cambodia had problems pursing an education, not least for being banned from the monastic schools that still provide a rudimentary education for thousands of boys. “Given that historically girls faced more barriers to education than boys, focus has been placed on addressing these key barriers,” says Iman Morooka, spokesperson for UNICEF Cambodia. “This has led some NGOs and donors to target their interventions to girls.”
Nor is it just international donors who’ve overlooked boys in their programming. Cambodia’s national Gender Mainstreaming Strategic Plan in Education, introduced in 2016, for example, includes a number of interventions targeting girls — but none for boys. Indeed, the term “girls” occurs 101 times in the document, while the term “boys” occurs twice. (Officials at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport did not respond to requests for further comment.)
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Girls do better in school due to having better social skills, but when it comes to logic and reason such as in math and sciences, most tend to get bored easily. But separating on gender like in the old days leaves out the few women who don't (about 1/13) at odds. But currently all are treated equally despite having different traits from natures hand.
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