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.
The question this poses is whether having fewer men than women working in youth projects actually impacts negatively upon young people's lives. Youth projects, much like schools, are supposed to be a microcosm of society - places where young people can see first-hand people of different ages, sexes and faiths working together side by side. So by not providing young people with a mixture of male and female youth workers, are young people being deprived of male role models?
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