I think that teaching is a caring and nurturing career, hence more women are attracted to it.

My son’s highschool has a nice mix of bother male and female, and it was the same when I went there back in my day. The primary school here has zero male teachers.

Personally, I remember when I was in high school many years ago, and the hard time male teachers got from the girls. Especially if the teacher was young and good looking. I can imagined that gas only increased over the years. Possibly being accused of sex offended could also be putting men off teaching

All the men I know have never considered teaching as a career because of the assumption they’re secretly child molesters.

Not only is there better pay in other industries but there have been so many men who have come under scrutiny of false claims or accusations submitted by brats seeking attention. Yes I understand all claims should be investigsted and I is hard for a a child who has suffered a trauma or inappropriate action to seek help. But I’m talking about the ones who cry wolf and make it more difficult for all parties, because children need diversity.

Women tend to work more in industries that are nurturing. I think if you look at the distribution of teachers across the world, this is a similar pattern

I would have thought that women are naturally more nurturing then men, so being a teacher would appeal to them more. Having said that, there are definitely excellent male and female teachers and also deplorable male and female teachers. This was an interesting read

My husband has gone back to uni to become a teacher. Interesting that salary is the major discussion when teachers get such a lot of holidays. I think that has a major plus for the profession.

I laugh when people say teachers should be paid more. Usually the same people who complain about paying school fees or when the government reduce funding to anything. I don’t care if my children have a male or female teacher, I just want them to have a teacher who actually knows what they are doing.

I think there are a lot of factors at play, not just pay issues.

There is still a long way to go with pay equality!!!! A job is a job regardless of gender!!!!

I think teaching is a great career choice if you want a family. Great parental leave, holidays etc. Given that mothers still seem to have the main parenting role, I think it makes sense.

It’s a hard job to deal with behaviour challenges. My hat goes off to those that teach our children.

The fact is men get more money in other professions, of course, when I was growing up tradies drove old bombs and now they drive new 4×4’s, so they must be making more money. Maybe also men are scared off in case they are accused of sexual misconduct or something else. After all it is probably acceptable for a female teacher to hug a kid if they wanted a hug but not for a male. But yes they are underpaid for the time they put in and especially kindergarten teachers, but so are nurses and ambulance drivers.

Think indeed it has all to do with career choices, salary and personal type.

We encourage boys into trades if we encouraged them into teaching they may be more likely to consider this choice unfortunately it’s difficult without role models to follow.

There are many problems with males entering the teaching profession. My oldest son is a trainee teacher and says that he is the only male in his classes at uni. He has been warned to expect some problems in that some parents prefer female teachers in primary school for teaching young children.

Pay would be part of the reason. Working with energetic kids all day would be another!

I don’t think you can attribute it to just one factor.

I agree that teachers should have an increase in their salary. And hopefully, by making it more attractive, more males would choose that career.

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 28 Jan 2019 , 6:07 pm

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  There are many careers where the pay should be in line with the level of responsibility and workload.