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Personally I think this seems kind of sexist. I would highly doubt that this would go down so well if it was "schools offering grants to men to encourage them t
by Ellipsis753 13y ago
Personally I think this seems kind of sexist.
I would highly doubt that this would go down so well if it was "schools offering grants to men to encourage them to become teachers". Assuming that there are more female teachers than male.
There's no good reason that we should treat men and women differently just so that we can try to force each job to be 50/50 gender split. Giving women some exclusive opportunities is ultimately still discriminating on gender and two wrongs don't really make a right here.
- CJefferson 13y agoI don't know about teaching, but there are men-only grants to get men into nursing. People always bring this up, without actually checking that men-only grants do in fact exist. Teaching-wise, a quick google finds the "Dr. Calvin Martin Memorial Scholarship Trust Fund", open only to black males.
- masklinn 13y ago> There's no good reason that we should treat men and women differently Men and women are already treated differently, the point of these is to try and apply corrective actions to lead to better gender balance and hopefully, down the line, social consciousness changes leading to balance in the first place making the grant unnecessary. If you don't like this grant, help fight for a more equal treatment at the root.
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- RougeFemme 13y agoActually, I wouldn't be surprised - or upset - if schools offered such grants to men. There are way more male teachers than female teachers. And I don't think everything should be simply about numbers and "balance". But I do think the educational experience for kids is different - in a good way - when they have both male and females teachers.