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in new zealand men can't get a job as a kindergarten or primary school teacher (not sure about middle or high school) because parents won't have it.
by em-bee 3y ago
in new zealand men can't get a job as a kindergarten or primary school teacher (not sure about middle or high school) because parents won't have it.
- foogazi 3y agoMale parents too ?
- amelius 3y agoI'm guessing that by far the majority of children in a typical year are from "traditional" families, which kinda makes this question irrelevant unless I'm misunderstanding.
- foogazi 3y agoThe article is about how men need help. Gp stated men can’t even get jobs teaching children. But men also participate in the decision to keep men out of schools Gender seems to cancel out here
- em-bee 3y agoi have seen families where the male parents absolutely didn't want to have anything to do with childcare. so i don't believe that it is a far stretch that some people come to the conclusion that this is normal and they shouldn't do childcare, and any man who is caring about children would be suspicious.
- foogazi 3y agoIt’s because of the fear of sexual abuse and the belief that no penis / no rape
- acdha 3y agoDo you have more information about that? I know there’s a big gender skew but that’s nowhere near as simple as “men can’t get a job” and has multiple causes.
- em-bee 3y agonot really, i got this from a friend who is the director of a private school. he told me that he was unable to hire any male staff because parents would not accept that, and even he himself had to stay far away from the kids. also i believe that this director surely checked if other nearby schools had male staff when evaluating the feedback he got from parents before making a general claim. (because if parents complain about male staff then i'd want to know if they would be able to find any schools that didn't have male teachers.) so i do not believe that this was an isolated incident. it is possible that this was a regional phenomenon and not indicative for the whole country, but it certainly shows that the sentiment "man working in daycare is frowned upon" is definitely a thing and not something made up nor an exaggeration of reality. i believe the only way to counter that is to demand gender parity among teachers. children need male and female role models and gender parity or something close to it is the only way to achieve that.