TY - JOUR
T1 - ‘Yeah, I’ve grown; I can’t go out anymore’
T2 - differences in perceived risks between girls and boys entering adolescence
AU - Mmari, Kristin
AU - Moreau, Caroline
AU - Gibbs, Susannah Emily
AU - De Meyer, Sara
AU - Michielsen, Kristien
AU - Kabiru, Caroline W.
AU - Bello, Bamidele
AU - Fatusi, Adesegun
AU - Lou, Chaohua
AU - Zuo, Xiayun
AU - Yu, Chunyan
AU - Al-Attar, Ghada S.T.
AU - El-Gibaly, Omaima
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was undertaken as part of the Global Early Adolescent Study, a 15-country study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in collaboration with 15 institutions globally. It was funded in part by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and USAID through the World Health Organization, and additionally supported through the William H. Gates Sr Professorship, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [grant number OPP1134835]; the David and Lucile Packard Foundation [grant number 627069]; and the United States Agency for International Development [grant number AID-OAA-15-00042].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - This analysis is based on data from the Global Early Adolescent Study, which aims to understand the factors that predispose young people aged 10–14 years to positive or negative health trajectories. Specifically, interview transcripts from 202 adolescents and 191 parents across six diverse urban sites (Baltimore, Ghent, Nairobi, Ile Ife, Assuit and Shanghai) were analysed to compare the perceived risks associated with entering adolescence and how these risks differed by gender. Findings reveal that in all sites except Ghent, both young people and their parents perceived that girls face greater risks related to their sexual and reproductive health, and because of their sexual development, were perceived to require more protection. In contrast, when boys grow up, they and their parents recognised that their independence broadened, and parents felt that boys were strong enough to protect themselves. This has negative consequences as well, as boys were perceived to be more prone to risks associated with street violence and peer pressure. These differences in perceptions of vulnerability and related mobility are markers of a gender system that separates young women and men’s roles, responsibilities and behaviours in ways that widen gender power imbalance with lifelong social and health consequences for people of both sexes.
AB - This analysis is based on data from the Global Early Adolescent Study, which aims to understand the factors that predispose young people aged 10–14 years to positive or negative health trajectories. Specifically, interview transcripts from 202 adolescents and 191 parents across six diverse urban sites (Baltimore, Ghent, Nairobi, Ile Ife, Assuit and Shanghai) were analysed to compare the perceived risks associated with entering adolescence and how these risks differed by gender. Findings reveal that in all sites except Ghent, both young people and their parents perceived that girls face greater risks related to their sexual and reproductive health, and because of their sexual development, were perceived to require more protection. In contrast, when boys grow up, they and their parents recognised that their independence broadened, and parents felt that boys were strong enough to protect themselves. This has negative consequences as well, as boys were perceived to be more prone to risks associated with street violence and peer pressure. These differences in perceptions of vulnerability and related mobility are markers of a gender system that separates young women and men’s roles, responsibilities and behaviours in ways that widen gender power imbalance with lifelong social and health consequences for people of both sexes.
KW - Adolescence
KW - gender norms
KW - global health
KW - perceived risks
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U2 - 10.1080/13691058.2017.1382718
DO - 10.1080/13691058.2017.1382718
M3 - Article
C2 - 29043890
AN - SCOPUS:85031713134
SN - 1369-1058
VL - 20
SP - 787
EP - 798
JO - Culture, Health and Sexuality
JF - Culture, Health and Sexuality
IS - 7
ER -