At a global level, it can appear daunting to address inequities in child development and opportunities to flourish:
where to begin at a classroom level?
As well as familiar issues like malnutrition and food in
schools it may be worth considering social and emotional learning. For example The Lancet has spoken out about the
need to engage adolescent boys ‘to lead more gender equitable
lives’.
97 Canada has led the way in school-based research on
violence towards women and girls, e.g. after relationship education when aged 14, boys were less likely to use physical
violence towards girls 2.5 years later (intervention group 2.7%
vs control group 7.1%, OR 2.77 (CI 1.39e5.29)).98