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Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more?
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Aren't most teachers women? Why aren't women doing more to address this, something is clearly failing in their classrooms.
Why do you blame teachers, apparently because they're women, and not their parents?
This is the result of giving "conservative" misogynists a platform instead of a black eye.
Err, these boys aren't being taught Misogyny 101 in the classroom...the female teachers are often the victims here. Asking them to solve this problem is delusional.
101? What are you a yank?
Victim blaming? What are you, a misogynist?
In primary school most teachers are women, but in high school - which is what we're talking about, it's pretty balanced.
More to the point though, something is failing in classrooms. That's what the article is about, hence the title "misogyny is thriving in our schools". Obviously it is not being caused by the teachers. The teachers do not want this to happen. It makes for a horrible work environment - especially for the female teachers. Programs and strategies are being implemented to try to address the problem, but the root of the problem is not from the school itself.
I hope that answers your genuine good-faith questions on the topic.
Wrong, in High School (and every other teaching field) the majority of teachers are women.
https://www.acara.edu.au/reporting/national-report-on-schooling-in-australia/staff-numbers
Obviously the teachers do not want this to happen, but they are the ones in the position to teach otherwise and so I ask, why are these women not doing so?
Well, 'majority' just means more than 50% - so your claim is true. But that doesn't mean what I said is "wrong". The site you linked to says 61%. (Which I still think is relatively balanced compared to many fields of work.) And obviously that proportion will not be uniform in every school.
Why are you trying to push responsibility of the problem to women anyway? That's pretty weird. I'm surprising you're still pushing on this even now. It's as if you actually feel strongly that women teachers in particular are the only people who can address this issue. I don't know why you'd take that view.
It's weird that I think teachers should be teaching?
You have said in multiple posts that "women" should be doing more to address the issue of misogyny.
What are you saying now? That you don't think teachers aren't doing their jobs? Holy smokes man. It's not what you were saying before, but it is similarly hateful.
The problem is lack of good male role models.
Is it our responsibility?
Well it's men's responsibility every other time, and you've driven us out of education, so yes.
You are a dickhead.
i don't know how things are in Australia, but i do know how misogyny is so common in American schools. you can't think of it as being individual failures on behalf of the teachers. you have to think of this as entire system of patriarchy that selects for individuals who are less likely to resist it.
firstly are the weed out systems:
then there's the reinforcement systems
Most Australian university students have their study 100% funded upfront by the Australian government and only pay it back over time if they earn above a minimum threshold, so the connection between socioeconomic background and university education isn't as strong as in the US (though it definitely still exists).
I couldn't find stats for Australia, but in America teachers are statistically more likely to be Democrats than Republicans, so I don't think this is supported.
It is also worth noting that, though I couldn't find anything on Australian educators' political leanings, teachers are one of the most highly unionised workforces in the country, and our centrist party (the one the media and many in the general public would call "centre-left", like your Democrats) has explicit ties to the union movement.
In Australia they're paid quite well. It doesn't scale as highly for the average teacher as it does in many other highly educated jobs, but the base salary is pretty good. There's the important caveat that teachers are largely expected to spend their own money on classroom supplies, though.
Teachers in Australia are hired by the department based largely on very impersonal factors like qualifications. There's not a huge amount of room, at the level of classroom teachers, for that kind of bias to have as much of an effect. What more personal decisionmaking does happen is done largely by principals, who are former teachers themselves. Because hiring is done at the department level, principles can get involved in decisions like who gets a job at which school, but the fact that they have a job at all is much more impersonal. The promotion and hiring of principles and other non-classroom positions may be a different question.
That said, I'm not disagreeing with your main point. It is a systemic failure. At a scale far larger than merely within schools.
If you don't know how things are in Australia, why are you entering the discussion?
to discuss how these things happen in other parts of the world with similar roots of anglocentric patriarchy. i'm not trying to drive the conversation, just provide "here's what happens in another part of the world, maybe it will help analyze your systems"