Schools across South Africa are mirroring a wider global trend: boys are falling behind girls in school. It’s not schooling that’s at fault, but the cultural scripts that boys absorb while growing up. These are tropes that shape harmful ideas of masculinity, write Wessel van den Berg, Senior Advocacy Officer at Equimundo, Cody Ragonese, Director of Programmes at Equimundo, and Dalberg’s Associate Partner Tania Beard, in this article in Daily Maverick.

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