How Does Gender Affect The Teaching Profession?
Gender Affects the teaching profession in more ways than one. Based off of our textbook alone, women were struggling majorly in the late 1800s over inequality in male and female teachers. Male teachers were given the advantage of being able to attend whatever colleges they pleased with freedom of study choice (As long as they were wealthy white males), while women had to settle for "normal teachers colleges" where they were given no freedom to study anything else alongside it. Male educators were paid substantially more than female educators, and women were constantly seeing these hundreds of dollars that they were losing out on, purely because they are female. Women also saw inequalities with promotions in the workplace, whereas they were given no opportunity to level up, men were getting handed those higher paying jobs in schools without question. To them, a woman should never have a higher status than a man, and there is no possible way she could have the authority to boss these men in the workplace. These drawbacks of the job drove lots of women away from the profession if they had the choice to leave, some had to stay despite their beliefs in order to keep food on the table. Nowadays things look very different for women, thank goodness. Thanks to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, we no longer have these kinds of troubles on our plate. Now we live in a world that has predominately well educated female teachers who do a fantastic job and hopefully embody everything that these two women, and many others in this movement intended for the modernized teacher. I think that they would be very proud of how far we have come, and how much we grow as the years go on.
Morgan Watson
Expanding on your response while many protections have been won to expand the rights of women teachers and people of color we do still face some inequalities in the workplace and in the teaching profession. While thankfully we now have accesses to equal opportunities in terms of education I think there is still some bias that women face when working in the teaching profession with many of them being passed over for promotions or administration jobs. Though thanks to women's rights leaders we do have a platform to addresses these issues and fight for more equal practices in terms of these problems. Overall I do see things continually getting better for teachers male or female , though I'd like to see more of a push to motivate male students to pursue teaching as the amount of male teachers pales in comparison to the amount of female teachers going into the workplace.
ReplyDeleteI like your point, and I agree with empowering men to be just as welcomed and accepted into the teaching world as women are. Men and women both have equal opportunity to be great teachers, so there definitely shouldn't be any setbacks for either group. I hope to see the ongoing opportunities for teachers as a whole continuing to grow and to have the best chance to be amazing educators for their students. As for the inequalities, I would like to think those will get better overtime, as we spread awareness towards those and fight together, hopefully we can create a better environment for everyone overall. I liked how in depth your reply was and how your words helped spark more conversation to continue on with.
DeleteHi Morgan! I agree with how it was unfair for men to be able to choose where they were going to study while women were not given that choice. I am glad that even though there are some people that still think that men are above women, that the world is changing into a much more fair and equal place. Life was so hard for women that were teachers back in these times and men got all of the credit most of the time. I can't believe that women had to live that way and that it was "normal" for them to be treated this way. Overall, women and men deserve to be treated the same, especially when they are doing the exact same job! You did a really good job of explaining the things that were talked about in the textbook and making them connect to today's society as well.
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