(May 30, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) It has been reveled that 60% of our medical practitioners and 80% of our teachers are women. A proud achievement! It could be argued that currently girls are more studious and devote more time to their studies and parents have more control over girls. Boys get carried away by novel and attractive trends, devote less time to their studies to the neglect of their studies.
A society is bound to face repercussions due to the conduct of unemployed boys. This was observed in the 1971 and the 1987-89 insurgencies where the vast majority of rebels were boys.
Medical practitioners and nurses qualify at examinations, follow thorough courses of stuy in academic institutions and have to pass a final examination before being employed. But teachers were once appointed on letters given by politicians and immediately took to teaching, with a Rs. 100/ per month salary, without any prior training and most of them were not university graduates and had only A/ level passes. This could be the cause of the present standard of education.
Prior to 1960s parents of most girls after their school career were keen on marriages and sooner or later became housewives and most parents were not keen on employment. And those who chose to seek employment had opportunities exclusively for them in nursing, and switchboard operators, while some choose teaching. But medical practitioners, engineers, surveyors, civil servants, and other professionals were few.
Thus unemployed girls are not a problem to the parents or to the society she lives in, even without employment they could get married and have a decent life. But an unemployed boy could get into the use of alcohol, drugs, gambling and get involved in robbery. He thus becomes a problem to his parents and family members, to the society he lives in.
As such, the private sector institutions should give preference to boys in giving employment.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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