The book said that certainly the teaching industry was female dominated. Because they were lower paid the stigma (economic and social) stuck with teaching.
You bring up a good question in that while gender equity isn't the same issue/challenge it was 100 years ago the pay in comparison to other industries remains unequal.
I wonder myself about that. In our discussion last time, we moved to this topic some and feel that to get better teachers, the pay should increase. It is hard to get the upper educated to become teachers unless they want to be a teacher for other reasons, not financial related.
The book said that certainly the teaching industry was female dominated. Because they were lower paid the stigma (economic and social) stuck with teaching.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good question in that while gender equity isn't the same issue/challenge it was 100 years ago the pay in comparison to other industries remains unequal.
I wonder myself about that. In our discussion last time, we moved to this topic some and feel that to get better teachers, the pay should increase. It is hard to get the upper educated to become teachers unless they want to be a teacher for other reasons, not financial related.
ReplyDeleteWe discussed this last chapter. The level of teacher pay is more about public perception of work than gender.
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