If feminism is about equality why are the majority of teachers women ?

Question

Is it not true that boys need role models as they grow up. Why do feminists only promote education from the female perspective ?

Feminists have re-designed the education system to favor women only and also introduced wommin's studies but failed to equal that introduction with an equivalent men's studies course. Is that not sexism ?

Answer 1

I asked my boyfriend, who is a middle school inner-city teacher, if education methods had become "feminized" and he scoffed at the idea.  There is nothing "feminine" about the teaching methods, he said.  It is the PARENTS that cause far more trouble for the teachers than any method or sometimes even the students themselves.

Remember, proper education starts at home.  If your child can't behave in class, it is because you're doing something wrong at home.  Teachers are not in the class to discipline the children--they are there to teach them.

Answer 2

LOOOOOOOTUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don't take Lotus' answers to seriously, last post she stated she was a female supremacist-I wonder what other supremacist groups she belongs to...

Anyways The mrs answer is right on the money.  Thats my answer.

Answer 3

Teachers were primarily female before feminism.

If you want to be a role model for boys, do it.

Why do you expect women to take care of mens' needs? It's not our job, it's yours. If you want to start a mens' studies department, do it. If you want to help younger males in trouble, do it.

Quit whining and expecting women to do everything for you. You are sexist to think that women should serve mens' needs. If you care so much about men, do something.

And to set the record straight, many universities offer gender studies, not womens' studies. We do look at mens' issues and we do advocate for greater gender freedom for men, but most men don't want it. Why would a man question his manhood when he is so obviously superior to women? I don't see men rushing to wear skirts or care for babies... or to be teachers.

Grow up, stop whining and wipe your own *** big boy.

Answer 4

Feminism is about Feminist Supremacy, not equality by modern standards.  Teaching is a very easy profession where the hours are short and the qualifications are minimal.

Teaching is a wonderful way to have a 3 month vacation with an entry level position.  Naturally, Feminists wish to advance their misandristic agenda as early as possible, and using Feminist teachers is the most effective way.  It also allows Feminists closer access to young children (which is part of the inherent peculiarity of Feminism).

Answer 5

You can blame this one on the men who choose not to be teachers.  Men have choice just like women do.  All demographics who have served injustices throughout history have their own class of study...men probably will have their own in the near future as well.

As for your daily History lesson, men were the first formal teachers.

Answer 6

Women' s studies would be discriminatory if men weren't allowed to take it.

Answer 7

Q:  "If feminism is about equality why are the majority of teachers women ?"

A:  Because most men won't work for peanuts.

Answer 8

No, feminists DON'T promote education from a solely female perspective, nor have they "redesigned the education system." Nor is there any evidence for this, or you would have offered some.

How exactly do you imagine that this happened? And how is it "feminists" fault if men aren't becoming teachers?

And you misunderstand what "women's studies" is. To begin with, it is not generally part of the curriculum of elementary and secondary education. It is available on the post-secondary level, at colleges and universities where MEN are still largely the leaders in academia. So, how, again, have "feminists" done this?

BTW, men's studies is being offered more and more, so it would seem that you are wrong on all counts.

Answer 9

It is not sexism. Since recently men have been the only people that we have studied in history courses. Women's courses are offered to people who would like to learn more about the women who built our country and inspired people.

It's the exact opposite of sexism.

Answer 10

More women than men want to be teachers.

Men just don't enjoy that kind of thing.

Its not sexism, its just men not wanting to be teachers.

Mens studies is called general history.  

Answer 11

It doesn't really have anything to do with feminism. Those women choose to be teachers. I guess more women choose to be teachers. In high school all my teachers were men. They were all SO hot.

Answer 12

That's not true at all.  Women have been done a serious injustice to in the past and in the present, so therefore, a women's studies course is appropriate.  So is an African Americans' studies course, but I'm guessing that you're also against that?  I'm proud of the fact that women are educating this nation's youth.  I have a lot of role models who are women.  I hate to break it to you, but chauvinists do not inspire a nation's youth.  You were an exception.  And I know a lot of male teachers who are also great at what they do.

Answer 13

Feminists promote equal opportunity for employment-don't see what the number of male teachers has to do with feminists, unless:

-feminists were pushing for laws to outlaw men from being teachers-which they're not or

-were actively discouraging men from getting teaching degrees- which they're not or

-were discouraging boys from becoming teachers, which they're not.

I know of quite a few college and university educational programs that are looking for men and women who will be given support and mentoring if they're willing to take courses to apply their professional background in the elementary, junior high, or high school classroom. Even with this type of support, few men are interested in the program. Among first year teachers, in our state, more men leave the profession than women, and they often say it's because the money is so poor.

  

I know quite a few men who teach in community colleges and they wouldn't consider teaching in elementary, junior high or high school-the pay is poor, they would have to deal with kids instead of adults, and there's not much opportunity for advancement.

Your dislike of feminism is clouding your judgement; you're also making quite a few assumptions about a topic you haven't researched. You couldn't be more wrong.Our state is trying very hard to train males to be teachers, but so far, few are interested or stay with the profession. FYI: Women's studies is taught in college, not the lower grades, and many programs have changed their names to Women and Gender studies or Gender studies, to reflect their focus on both men and women's studies.  

Answer 14

Most men don't want to be teachers, especially at the elementary grade levels. The pay isn't good enough and many don't have the patience to deal with young children all day. Then there is the common perception that if a man wants to teach at that level, he must want to do so because he is a pedophile and can get access to children that way.

Answer 15

Because men just don't want to be teachers at the same rate women do.  

Answer 16

Because fewer men than women are interested in becoming teachers.  Teaching is an occupation that has lost status over the years, and consequently is less interesting to men, who tend to be attracted to higher-status occupations. Paying teachers more money and showing them more respect would probably attract more men into the profession, but I do not know if that is at all likely to happen.