Gender balance in surveys

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Class Emerald included the boys from the Salesians school in their survey.

Why did we try to have gender balance in our survey?
So that one group is not under-represented or that the survey is not largely dominated by one gender or the other.
Women make up over half the world's population.
Millennium Development Goal No 3 is all about gender balance.

Gender equality is about enabling male and female respondents to contribute to and benefit from participation - when we shared our results this meant that the boys from the Salesians would also learn why young people find it difficult to pray.