[Broken_Hippo]

I'm not sure if that is what is happening with teachers. Teaching has been a traditionally female role for many decades now - you guessed it, dominated by females especially at lower levels. I'm not sure that this is a cause of hesitation since there is so much societal baggage that comes along with this.

Nursing has had much of the same struggle, though I think that used to be male dominated and at some point, switched.

[peoplewindow]

Stories like this surely indicate a non-zero problem with getting men in teaching:

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/no-man-th...

[ralfn]

Yeah for about 2 decades, which is when that non sense started

Moms, eventhough all the facts suggest otherwise, assume men abuse children more often than women (even though its the opposite).

And ever since the only people teaching young children are mentally challenged girls that wouldn't survive in another city or country for ever a day

[blattimwind]

> Teaching has been a traditionally female role for many decades now

> Yeah for about 2 decades

I can confirm that for where I live, I've seen the statistics (they're probably public anyway), %male trainee teachers plummeted since the mid 90s across the board. Today the female/male ratio is somewhere between 30 to 1.5. Now, he is correct that the most extreme ratio occurs in primary school and the two basic school tiers, but it's still something like 2.5:1 in higher school. If I remember correctly the most balanced school form is vocational school where it's "only" like 3:2.

And in kindergartens some parents won't even accept male staff. (Other parents start to demand male staff)

Similar issues are on the other side of the interaction. Disciplinary action in schools hits - for all intents and purposes - exclusively male students. Male students at universities and FHs take somewhere between one and four semesters longer to complete their studies than their female fellows. Dropouts and non-participating students are overwhelmingly male across all school forms.

[shiven]

>> Moms, eventhough all the facts suggest otherwise, assume men abuse children more often than women (even though its the opposite).

Do we have any solid, statistical evidence in support of these claims?

[Fargren]

Teaching also used to be male dominated, and only became more open to women as it become entwined with rearing.

[bmh_ca]

Teaching became more open to women as men were killed in war.