78% of the teaching staff is female at the school my girlfriend teaches at.
Someone should really tell them that this horrible gender balance is a problem and get onto correcting it immediately.
Someone should really tell them that this horrible gender balance is a problem and get onto correcting it immediately.
Education departments are well aware of the under representation of men, particularly in primary education, and are trying to fix it (although not doing any better than computing does, unfortunately)
I know a lot of people who work in the K-12 education sector, and I have never heard them saying that the gender ratio is unfair towards men.
A different imbalance, and one to be considered, but separately from this issue.
A lot of the material on this site is also related to teaching -- MOOCs, better way to teach science and programming, etc.
> A different imbalance, and one to be considered, but separately from this issue.
Classic misdirection, "oh yeah, we'll look at that later." No, it is intimately related to this issue. If you want perfect uniformity, everywhere is society, you should look at all of these little errors ASAP. The reason why there are so few women in tech is intimately related to gender imbalances elsewhere. So next time you are at a parent-teacher conference or your local nonprofit, make it a point to ask them, "Why do you have so few men? Have you looked at correcting this unfair gender imbalance?"