Female enrolment both at the secondary and university levels has now far outstripped that of males in the Caribbean and Latin America, raising new concerns about male underachievement, according to the World Bank report on gender equality, released globally yesterday.
The flagship report titled, ‘World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development’, which was launched at an embargoed preview briefing on September 14 last, said that while gaps remain, particularly among indigenous populations, there was a new concern that education was being seen as primarily a female endeavour especially in the Caribbean.
In Guyana, for instance, data taken from studies undertaken by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) revealed that although Guyana has made
