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And teachers? That has to be the MOST important group where we should absolutely have equal representation.

As a "traditionally female" occupation, K-12 teaching is woefully underpaid relative to, say, police or firemen. In the SF Bay Area, teaching is just not a middle-class profession at all.

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Could I take your comment to mean that men are not teachers because of the low pay-scale? It's a valid point and certainly one we would all like addressed.

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It is certainly one reason that keeps men (and many highly-qualified women) from being teachers.

Someone made the point long before I did that while we are grateful that women have so many more professional possibilities, it does mean a loss of many of the best women for the traditionally-female professions of nursing, "librarian-ing" and above all teaching. Just as engineering and science and medicine lose STEM minds to Wall Street and app-design shops.

Where I live, cops make $150K. Teachers make a lot less.

[marquis]

>a loss of many of the best women for the traditionally-female professions

I'd really disagree with that. It means the best women are heads of those departments, not that they are lost from the profession.

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A woman who becomes a doctor or lawyer or banker (because nowadays she can) is a woman who is not a nurse, librarian, or K-12 teacher.