Feminization Of Teaching

The years of past patriarchy in many countries greatly changed people’s minds and attitudes to many aspects of our life. Education area was not an exception and even played one of the leading roles to demonstrated the exact delimitation between males and females jobs and roles in society. However, lack of attention to teacher’s job was not only caused by patriarchy. Past centuries attitudes to education were restricted by knowledge of some foreign languages, music and good manners. This knowledge was needful and really affordable for only riches. Poor people did not really need and could afford any education. Education was not considered the core element of a person’s future success in life. Even though nowadays education role in society has tremendously changed the society’s attitude and stereotypes has not changed so greatly. Today most of the teachers remain females because teacher’s salary cannot be positively compared with salaries of administrators, managers, financial specialists etc. Nowadays teaching jobs still have a feminine face, and it would not seem as a problem if we did not interest the reasons. As it was mentioned above one of the reason is low salary which is still remains not insufficient for being independent on additional income support. The few men who remain in teaching are mostly interested to gain to the administrative posts in a future. Since there were sanctions against women teachers getting married, the turnover rates for women teachers were extremely high. Nowadays women continue to accept low wages because their options in the work force are very limited.

The second reason is totally incomplete understanding the role of education for society and how it may influence the humankind history in a future.