>This will result in some professions with extreme sex imbalance, and we should accept that outcome.
We do accept it, for the most part. I don't see many Men-as-Teachers or Men-in-Nursing advocacy groups.
We do accept it, for the most part. I don't see many Men-as-Teachers or Men-in-Nursing advocacy groups.
I think stuff like that is the main reason to be worried about gender imbalances. A 40-60 imbalance probably isn't a big deal, but once you get to like, 90-10 or worse, as is the case with early education, you start to get a bunch of secondary social problems. Kids who associate learning as a woman only thing, or the culture around engineering or software becoming "boys clubs" that become uncomfortable for the women who do want to work in those fields
https://www.cuny.edu/academics/academic-programs/teacher-edu...
There are pundits saying this should be supported. Are there programs with real dollars behind them making actual changes?
I hope those programs make a difference.
> adding 1,000 male teachers of color into the teacher pipeline
White men need not apply. If they were actually trying to solve a gender imbalance they wouldn't impose that criteria.
thats been changing. mostly because there are more obese people now so you need male nurses to help them move around.
I'm always suspicious of "you don't see much of x" in spaces where x isn't the demographic being catered to. This isn't Nursing News or Teacher News, not to say that Nurses and Teachers can't also be hackers, technologists, etc. but this is clearly not a space oriented towards all things teaching or nursing, so questioning community advocacy within their communities strikes me as the wrong place.