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Women make up 51% of the US population so clearly men are a minority. Ha! But really they probably mean a minority in a specific career or environment. For exa
by dmm 8y ago
Women make up 51% of the US population so clearly men are a minority. Ha!
But really they probably mean a minority in a specific career or environment. For example, ~6% of truck drivers are female but only ~18% of primary and secondary teachers are male.
- bb611 8y agoMen are 42% of teachers at the high school level: https://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-gender-gap https://www.aaeteachers.org/index.php/blog/757-the-teacher-g... School administrators are overwhelming male: http://aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=14492 http://aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=14492 I'm male, and taught K-5 special education for 2.5 years in my first job out of college. Few men join the profession, and many of them leave for better paying jobs, but I think a huge part of it is society's willingness to make raising children women's work. This is the "oh Daddy is babysitting!" phenomenon happening at the professional level.
- chapium 8y agoMajority/minority are not strictly numbers in this context. Its more about opportunities whose limiting factor is age/race/gender etc.
- collyw 8y agoI have yet to see decent evidence of limiting factor being race / gender where I work (in Europe). Age is a bit different as experience is closely tied to it.