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MenTeach E-News – October 2020
MenTeach E-News October 2020 1) Men in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework 2) Justice For All: Lack of Black Male Educators in Florida Area Schools 3) Legislation Introduced Addressing Teacher Diversity in NJ Schools 4) Atlanta Man Becomes One of Georgia’s First Black Male Teachers of the Year 5) Editorial: Getting back to the first […]
Read MoreMen in Female-Dominated Professions Do More Housework
If you want a husband who shares housework more equitably, marry a nurse, a teacher or hair stylist–or someone who’s in a female-focused career. Men in predominantly female jobs will perform 25 percent more household chores than a partner who works in a male-dominated profession like an electrician or engineer, a study (PDF) of heterosexual couples from […]
Read MoreEditorial: A Man in Hawai’i Working during the pandemic
I work at The Early School on the island of Oahu in Hawaii as a toddler teacher in the Young Children’s Program. When we moved into the Spring Break of 2020 I was very concerned about the Corona virus. So was everyone else in Hawaii. It was the weirdest start to a Spring Break I […]
Read MoreBlack Male Educators In St. Louis Have A Formula For Boosting Their Numbers
Darryl Diggs Jr. only had two African American male educators in his school years. He met the first one, a physical education teacher, in grade school — and then another, a physiology teacher, in high school. At college, he only had one black male professor. Today, Diggs, 37, finds himself in a similar position. An […]
Read More‘Brother Apple’ sows seeds of approval in China
Exercise videos boost acceptance of male teachers at kindergartens Kindergarten teacher “Brother Apple” set out with the intention of keeping youngsters fit during the COVID-19 epidemic, but quickly became an online icon. Xia Haoyang, who teaches at a kindergarten in Qingdao, Shandong province, kept the nickname his students had given him when he started uploading […]
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