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Some Schools Won’t Hire Men
[MenTeach was interviewed for a Newsweek article this fall and there has continued to be comments. Read one below.] This is a prime example of the gender bias found in education today. There is no shortage in male candidate, yet there is a shortage in male teachers. I was a candidate once but despite all […]
Read MoreIllinois lacks diversity of male lead teachers in early education
A recent study, Who’s Caring for the Kids? The Status of the Early Childhood Workforce in Illinois-2008, was conducted by researchers at National-Louis University’s McCormick Tribune Center for Early Childhood Leadership and the Early Childhood Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois. Early childhood teachers are not representative of or prepared to teach the changing […]
Read MoreA bit of history about male teachers in the United Kingdom
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) is a trade union for school teachers in England and Wales. It is a member of the Trades Union Congress. The Union only recruits qualified teachers and those training to be qualified teachers into membership and currently has over 292,000 members, making it the largest teachers’ union in the United Kingdom […]
Read MoreUganda: Check Bias Against Male Nurses
I am a male nurse working in a very busy hospital. Some people believe the two are mutually exclusive. “Oh, so you are a male nurse”, they say, not entirely convinced. Why do we need the qualifier “male” in front of the word nurse? After all, there are male and female teachers, doctors, chefs and […]
Read MoreReport: Male teachers now an ‘endangered species’
Male pre-kindergarten and early education teachers are almost as rare as komodo dragons, and they’re getting rarer, according to recent findings and recommendations released by the Community Advocates for Young Learners (CAYL) Institute. The number of men working in education has reached its lowest point in the past 40 years, the Cambridge-based organization found. The […]
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