Boys' Day
The Boys' Day is a day of action at the boy professionals can get to know in which women mainly work. Boys 'Day can be seen as a supplement and reaction to the longer Girls' Day . The purpose of both days of action is the equal treatment of students and the avoidance of disadvantages. Boys and girls should have equal rights with regard to professional orientation. Boys 'Day follows the same rules as Girls' Day. For a day, boys can get to know a job in which few men have worked so far (girls a job in which there are few women). You should be motivated to question the role behavior in choosing a career. In addition to a practical day in institutions and companies, the boys can also attend workshops on the topics of career and life planning, role models and social skills on Boys' Day.
Unlike Girls 'Day, Boys' Day is initially a movement “from below”. Wherever those responsible wanted to eliminate the lack of professional offers for boys, they quickly organized a Boys' Day on their own initiative. Up until 2007 there was no overall funded project.
Various facilities, especially day care centers, primary schools and old people's homes, enable boys to do a trial internship on Boys' Day. There are also professions in which men are underrepresented in social affairs, in the healing and nursing professions, and in education. The rule of thumb among boys 'day workers is that occupations in which a maximum of 40 percent of employees are male are boys' day occupations. This includes, for example, the job of a pharmaceutical technical assistant .
In Austria, Boys' Day has been organized nationwide by the Federal Ministry for Labor, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection every year since 2008. In addition to the facility visits on Boys 'Day, numerous Boys' Day workshops take place throughout the year, in which boys can deal with male role models.
History of origin
Boys 'Day came about because Girls' Day already existed. From 2002, in many places, individuals or working groups began to critically grapple with the fact that girls were treated unequally as a result of Girls' Day. Wherever this unequal treatment was seen as a disadvantage, regional initiatives for Girls 'Day and Boys' Day emerged. Some of the first to take care of girls and boys alike were employees of the women's office and business development in the Holzminden district. In 2003 they organized their first Girls 'Day and Boys' Day as a cooperation project.
The first independently organized Boys' Day took place on May 8, 2003 in Aachen. The starting point was a protest by sixth year students from an Aachen comprehensive school in spring 2002. This resulted in the Aachen Boys' Day initiative .
In 2004, further activities had arisen independently of one another in various cities and municipalities that organized a career orientation day for boys based on the model of Girls' Day. These included the communities of Henstedt-Ulzburg near Hamburg, Bad Kissingen east of Frankfurt and Halle (Saale).
On April 22nd, 2004 a Boys' Day was held in Hamburg under the name Was für Jungs! offered.
On April 28, 2005, the networking project New Paths for Boys , initiated and funded by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs , officially started . For this project, a conscious decision was made against the title Boys' Day in order not only to focus on the professional orientation of boys, but also to question typical role behavior and to promote the development of social skills; Continuous preoccupation with these topics - instead of concentrating activities on just one day - was also the reason for choosing the title. The aim of the project was and is the networking of regionally active people and organizations that deal with work with boys . Many initiatives related to Boys' Day joined the network.
For the first time, on June 2, 2005, Boys 'Day was also offered on a separate date in Aachen in order to gain independent public attention beyond Girls' Day. Two secondary schools took part in the "acceptance test". Since then there have been two dates for Boys' Day in Aachen. One is based on Girls 'Day (usually the fourth Thursday in April), the other (for the separate Boys' Day) has been on the last Thursday before the Easter break since 2007. An Aachen school consequently opted for the second solution.
The Berlin district of Reinickendorf hosted Boys' Days in 2009 and 2010 - three days a week before the summer vacation. Since 2008 at the latest, there has been a clear trend to offer boys alternatives to a trial internship day within and outside of school on Boys' Day. This includes, for example, obtaining a household pass or completing a babysitting course.
It can be observed that the regional working groups of public bodies, which up to now have only taken care of Girls 'Day, have to take over the organization of Boys' Day in the course of gender mainstreaming .
The first nationwide Boys' Day took place on April 14, 2011.
Situation in Austria
Boys' Day was held nationwide for the first time in 2008. In Austria, the focus of Boys' Day is on expanding the spectrum of career choices for young men with regard to care and education professions. Other occupational fields in which men are underrepresented only play a subordinate role.
The Boys' Day action day usually takes place on the second Thursday in November. On this day, the participating boys visit institutions (including kindergartens, elementary schools, nursing homes) where they get to know so-called “jobs that are not typical for men”.
Additional workshops are organized by regional managers in all federal states. The focus goes beyond the choice of profession and includes topics such as masculinity and life planning. An intensive exchange between the boys, as well as the self-reflection of each individual in a protected framework, are encouraged. The boys also learn to break down possible prejudices against men who have a social profession
The number of participants increased every year. In 2016, 4,725 boys took part in Boys' Day events. 359 care and educational institutions organize visits and 132 workshops were held throughout Germany.
Surname
The term Boys' Day was mostly ridiculed in the beginning. Despite several attempts to get by without this term, it has established itself as a logical and linguistically easily understandable counterpart to the term Girls' Day. A group of boys who wanted to create a website on the subject of a trial internship for boys on Girls 'Day also decided on the term “Boys' Day” as it would make searching the Internet easier.
In Switzerland , Daughter's Day was renamed National Future Day in 2010 after boys had also increasingly participated in it.
Criticism of Boys' Day
The chairwoman of the Berlin Education and Science Union, Rose-Marie Seggelke, welcomed the attempts at equality in the workplace. However, she is of the opinion that that is not all. There must also be other approaches, such as increasing salaries in social professions, in order to make them more interesting (also for male applicants). Critics complain that only the precise naming of "women's" and "men's professions" makes a Girls 'Day and a Boys' Day necessary. In addition, for example, the voluntary social year or the federal voluntary service is much better suited to give boys a deep insight into social professions than a one-day, superficial excursion. The central women's representative at Freie Universität Berlin criticizes the fact that the Girls' Day system cannot simply be applied to boys:
“That annoys me very much. There is a strange idea in the media that teachers are to blame for the poor school performance of boys on average. That should now be corrected by a Boy's Day. That seems very absurd to me. We haven't solved the problem for the girls yet. Boys have lower grades and fewer apprenticeships. I don't want to talk away the problem. But we don't have solid analysis on this. When Girls 'Day was conceived, we knew a lot about girls' decision-making processes. Now we don't know much, but we are going to have a Boy's Day. "
Still is the Boys' Day but the conflicting social change, solving a lot of discussion out at different levels. While some fear that Boys 'Day could be undesirable competition to Girls' Day, others speak of a necessary addition in order to be able to competently lead the gender debate at all.
It is also criticized that “New Paths for Boys” or the Boys' Day , which was held nationwide for the first time in 2011, is not an educational project. The aspects that are in the foreground are “professional orientation”, “role models” and “social competence”. Offers in which boys get to know professions that have a low proportion of men and that most boys would not normally choose are useful. A household course is presented on the official website. The boys should "discover with other boys that 'ironing and cooking' can also be fun".
“In New Paths for Boys , the attempt always appears to push boys where they do not stand in the way of the girls. What is forgotten about the whole thing is that Boys Day has been around for a long time, but it is probably more of a Boys' Year . I'm talking about community service. "
Since 2002, the state of Brandenburg has been offering a joint “Future Day for Girls and Boys” instead of a separate Future Day for boys and girls. On this project day, all students in grades six to nine can get to know promising professions that they may not have been able to imagine for themselves up to now. In particular, the aim is to “give young people the opportunity to choose a job that is not determined by their gender, but by their skills and interests.” In general, students are only allowed to work on Boys' Day for as long as their school day is.
Web links
- Official Boys' Day website
- Official website for Boys' Day Austria
- Website for "New Paths for Boys"
- Website for the future day in Brandenburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ see archived copy ( memento of the original from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , based on the BIBB data reports: "Predominantly female occupations (60–80% female trainees)" and "Female dominated occupations (80–100% female trainees)" in http://datenreport.bibb.de/
- ↑ Girls '& Boys' Day - Holzminden ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB).
- ↑ Klieser: In Aachen, boys practiced women's professions: Stefan was a kindergarten teacher. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Workshop, January 19, 2004, p. 7, published in the Aachener Nachrichten on June 9, 2004. (PDF; 2.7 MB)
- ^ Aachen Boys' Day
- ↑ Ippich, Koehl: To develop the Boys' Day in Germany - facts, figures, initiatives. ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Workshop 16./17. September 2004 "Boys take part", p. 3 ff. (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ What guys! - Hamburg
- ↑ Start of the networking project “New Paths for Boys” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Men's policy policy department in the BMASGK: Press text Boys' Day 2008 (Austria). (PDF; 15 KB) Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Men's policy policy department in the BMASGK: Annual report 2016 (Austria). (PDF; 3.0 MB) Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Boys Day - Professions and Jobs ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/stadtleben/ganz-klar-maennersache/1175482.html/
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.vorwaerts.de/artikel/wir-haben-das-problem-fuer-die-maedchen-noch-nicht-geloest ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.neue-wege-fuer-jungs.de/Neue-Wege-fuer-Jungs/Jungenangebote-nicht-nur-am-Boys-Day/Neue-Berufe-kennen-lernen/Praktische-Tipps-Erverbindliche -Taster days, internships and company tours ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Future Day 2011 for girls and boys in Brandenburg
