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Sun Apr-18-10 10:01 AM
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But... the unions don't offer that much protection. The fact that teaching is historically a women's profession has a lot to do with low salaries.
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| -america has always given female teachers a hard time |
ensho |
Apr-18-10 09:58 AM |
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Thank you. |
Catshrink |
Apr-18-10 10:01 AM |
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historically teaching was a male profession |
ensho |
Apr-18-10 10:02 AM |
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I wasn't too specific, was I? |
Catshrink |
Apr-18-10 10:10 AM |
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Not in America |
Chulanowa |
Apr-18-10 03:51 PM |
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Actually, IIRC, most teachers were male before a mass public education became an expected service. |
Odin2005 |
Apr-18-10 04:39 PM |
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Apr-18-10 10:23 AM |
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sex of the teacher, silly one. |
ensho |
Apr-18-10 10:25 AM |
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In some places during the Depression, women teachers weren't hired at all. |
Lars39 |
Apr-18-10 10:31 AM |
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Same with librarians. It was US Govt. policy to fire female employees whose husbands were |
Captain Hilts |
Apr-18-10 10:35 AM |
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I didn't know that - thanks |
ensho |
Apr-18-10 10:36 AM |
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Most grievance complaints at college level are male students vs. female professors. nt |
Captain Hilts |
Apr-18-10 10:34 AM |
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that's interesting. |
BlancheSplanchnik |
Apr-18-10 01:44 PM |
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Well, Yes, yes, yes, and yes... |
Captain Hilts |
Apr-18-10 01:51 PM |
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oh geez, it's late now |
BlancheSplanchnik |
Apr-19-10 09:47 PM |
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Back in the days when I was teaching on the college level, I had frequent |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Apr-18-10 06:36 PM |
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Male elementary teachers often have it hard today |
Goblinmonger |
Apr-18-10 10:35 AM |
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In my rural elementary school there were only 4 adult men. |
Odin2005 |
Apr-18-10 01:21 PM |
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In my elementary school, over the years, we had 2 male teachers/principals. |
raccoon |
Apr-19-10 08:30 AM |
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and howmany teachers could support a family on only their teacher's salary? |
BrklynLiberal |
Apr-18-10 04:00 PM |
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Nowadays I think many men would be afraid of going into elementary education, |
tblue37 |
Apr-19-10 02:30 AM |
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Life is hard for many - much harder for some |
stray cat |
Apr-18-10 10:46 AM |
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The Corporate elite has an interest in maintaining gender pay discrimination. |
Odin2005 |
Apr-18-10 01:18 PM |
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VERY interesting point |
BrklynLiberal |
Apr-18-10 04:02 PM |
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The two most female dominated professions...nursing and teaching..are the same ones that |
BrklynLiberal |
Apr-18-10 03:57 PM |
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I noticed that on Food Network the men are called "Chefs" while the women are called "cooks". |
Odin2005 |
Apr-18-10 04:36 PM |
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another intresting change of title that brings with it an increase in stature and money |
BrklynLiberal |
Apr-18-10 05:31 PM |
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There IS a dire shortage of nurses. In most professions, when such a |
tblue37 |
Apr-19-10 02:41 AM |
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Add to that, day care workers and nursing home workers. nt |
raccoon |
Apr-19-10 08:31 AM |
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Some of that is STILL true for women who teach in religious schools. |
BrklynLiberal |
Apr-18-10 03:59 PM |
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My mother's first teaching job was in a small town in Wisconsin in the 1940s |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Apr-18-10 06:20 PM |
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My mom was a teacher in upstate New York in the 1930s |
LibertyLover |
Apr-18-10 07:15 PM |
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I remember the pants thing - when I went to school we couldn't |
ensho |
Apr-19-10 10:58 AM |
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wow, the crap the women had to go through |
ensho |
Apr-19-10 10:56 AM |
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My *married* union president got pregnant in the late '60's and was let go |
AwakeAtLast |
Apr-18-10 09:17 PM |
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Hell, when I was a 9th grader, our algebra teacher (long married) was pregnant |
havocmom |
Apr-18-10 09:20 PM |
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My Spanish teacher in high school refused to cut her hair short |
EFerrari |
Apr-19-10 01:47 AM |
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makes me think of our dear flappers who cut their hair short and were |
ensho |
Apr-19-10 11:00 AM |
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Mine is a family of teachers. My mother, my grandmother, |
Daphne08 |
Apr-19-10 01:43 AM |
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Women in the "real world" workplace has always been an "issue" |
SoCalDem |
Apr-19-10 03:52 AM |
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Great post! nt |
raccoon |
Apr-19-10 08:34 AM |
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