By Sheelagh Drudy, Maeve Martin, John O'Flynn, Mairide Woods
The instructing of young ones has lengthy been ruled via girls. This international phenomenon is firmly rooted in concerns concerning monetary improvement, urbanization, the placement of ladies in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of youngsters and childcare. but, among the media scare tales and ethical panics approximately underachieving boys, there are strangely few empirically-supported solutions to important questions such as:
- Is the feminisation of training rather a problem?
- How is the connection of gender and instructing thought of inside of a framework of feminist theory?
- What are the perceptions of scholars of training, compared to different professions?
- Why are so few males drawn to teaching?
- Can extra males be attracted into the classroom?
The authors of this groundbreaking e-book have undertaken the biggest, so much in-depth research ever performed in this subject, on the way to verify either lecturers and scholars' perspectives throughout fundamental schooling.
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Females were more likely to see computer programmer and accountant as most suited to men. Although they were doing a course leading to primary teaching no male student teacher thought it most suited to men, of the nine careers listed, and just one man made it his second choice. Less than 2 per cent of the sample thought that second level teaching was the career most suited to men, while cumulatively just 8 per cent of the sample put it in their top three choices. The data suggest that in choosing primary teaching, males make choices that run contrary to their own conceptions of gender identity.
Doctor’ and ‘social worker’ came next for this group (at 25 and 18 per cent respectively), with ‘secondary teacher’ a very rare choice for them at 2 per cent. It would appear that a strong perception of primary teaching as very satisfying does not necessarily spill over into second level teaching for this group. The ‘newer’ careers such as computer programmer or television producer did not figure prominently with regard to job satisfaction for those intending to put primary teaching first on their degree application.
According to Siltanen (1994:189), in late twentieth-century societies, employment continued to be characterised by a high degree of differentiation between women and men. The issue of whether occupations can be defined as ‘gendered’ purely by the number of men or women who are employed in them is raised by this observed differentiation. In Siltanen’s analysis, the categories of ‘men’s jobs’ or ‘women’s jobs’ is rejected: Research conducted at the level of the workplace has shown that there is not a consistent relationship between the substance of job tasks and the gender composition of jobs: a particular job may be exclusively male in one workplace and exclusively female in another.
