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Care to give an example? Are you male or female?

• Fomite 8y ago
  I'm male. Lots of students under the impression that commenting on their dress is appropriate. A large chunk of those being suggesting they dress in ways more visually interesting. Some direct references to their appearance (usually "positive"). One particularly egregious one speculating on who she slept with to have her position. Tons of gendered expectations in language. Expectations to "be more nurturing" and things like that. Far more comments about them being "young", "inexperienced" and "new" than my own evaluations, despite being considerably more experienced than I am (and no, there was no way my class was just more polished - it was thrown together last minute).
  • belorn 8y ago
    > Tons of gendered expectations in language. That would make for a rather interesting study if they look at gender expectations overall for teachers. From Swedish studies it has been clear that male teachers leave the professions significant more and earlier than female teachers, and same with male students for the teacher master program in higher education. The numbers is very similar if not almost identical to master programs in STEM except for the genders being reversed, a fact that is rather unexplored in gender studies but noted in a somewhat recent government study. Just looking at evaluations, I wonder how height, build and wealth symbols (expensive car, clothing, jewelry) impact the rating for male teachers. Do a non-typical male traits contribute more negatively to the score for male teachers than non-typical female traits do for female teachers? Same question for typical male traits and female traits. Is it correlated to leaving the profession, and is there a difference in abuse tolerance?