Changes in women's role in society, their increased participation in higher education and a reluctance among men to pursue a career working with children and young people has led to a reversal of this trend. Now, as our survey on page 14 shows, female entrants on full-status youth work courses outstrip the number of men by a ratio of two to one....
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Editorial: The decline of the male youth worker
It's hard to imagine nowadays a time when male youth workers outnumbered female youth workers. But back in the early 1980s it was not unusual for youth services to employ twice as many male youth workers as women.
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