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My son's elementary school appears to be hugely discriminatory towards men. Less than 10% of the teachers are male, all of the leadership at the school is fema
by JPKab 14y ago
My son's elementary school appears to be hugely discriminatory towards men. Less than 10% of the teachers are male, all of the leadership at the school is female. Yet I don't see any gender equality organizations complaining about this very widespread reality.
Gloria Steinem always argued that gender equality would only be achieved when society believed women could do what men could do, and men could do what women could. The latter half of that statement offers zero political advantages for the women's studies faculty members which make up the cornerstone of the gender equality movement of this country, and therefore Gloria's full vision is ignored.
Girls have lower scores on math than boys. Explanation: There is something wrong wtih the way math is being taught.
Boys have lower scores on writing than girls. Explanation: Boys are naturally biologically inferior when it comes to processing language.
Boys have lower grades overall than girls. Explanation: Boys aren't as well behaved or attentive as girls.
If the situation were reversed, there would be conversations about how to redesign the school day to erase the overall grade gap between female and male students. But because the group in question isn't a classically oppressed category, the cause of failure is immediately considered to be an internal factor.
See my point? Within some of the social sciences, there is a very potent politically motivated push to search for only external, rather than internal, causes for issues within any group which is considered socially disadvantaged. Nobody has any doubt that Saudi Arabia's Wahabi influenced culture has major internal influences on undermining their economy, but if the same analysis is conducted on any disadvantaged cultural groups within a Western nation, the group conducting said analysis is shamed as being bigoted.
- rmc 14y agoExcept, well, often times equality / anti-sex-discrimination law does benefit men. It's now illegal for driving insurance companies to charge men more than women (even though they are statistically worse drivers) (in EU). Additionally there are attempted to get more men into professions where they were traditionally underrepreseted. Here's the UK Department of Education: "Record numbers of men teaching in primary schools - but more still needed" http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00211812/record-numbers-of-men-teaching-in-primary-schools http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a00211812/re... So yes, equality and governmental agencies are complaining about the lack of men in some professions and trying to increase it. The photo on the NHS's "Nursing" career page ( http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/nursing/ http://www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/explore-by-career/nursing/ ) is a man. (The NHS is the UK's public sector health system and is one of the largest employers in the world.) You do not appear to have done any research and are claiming that "no-one tackling the lack of men in some cases", when in fact, they are. With your specific examples, you don't give any citations, so I wonder if you're cherry picking? Humanity is big and people will have lots of opinions. You're telling me that the most common response to lower grades for boys as opposed to boys is an appeal to biology? Got any citations?
- s_baby 14y agoBut when people ask for gender neutral language in Violence Against Women Act and family law, countless feminists scream "wut about the menz?!"
- rmc 14y agoI don't know about this VAW Act (seems to be US thing), the US isn't so great on the equality law anyway (since there is no legal maternity leave, marital status or sexuality isn't a protected ground etc.) If I were to talk about how China does voting, would that be a fair cop against democracy?