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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
If we're talking teaching then middle aged white guys actually just guys at all are rarer than hens teeth in schools these days
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http://www.economist.com/news/intern...ersity-and-gap
It is actually a really interesting situation and one that I can speak to based on my career having a very high female to male ratio. My graduating class had 5 males, myself included, out of approximately 120 students. There is a push to get more males involved in these professions (nursing, social work, and education being the two main ones), but socially while it is acceptable for females to get involved in the sciences, it is less so for males to get involved in professions seen to be more feminine. At the same time, due to increasing automation and outsourcing of labour, the jobs which have historically been seen as being male professions (physical labour) are dwindling in a more developed society. Ultimately what is being seen is a reversal of the gender disparity. I don't know if many people care and I really hope that I don't sound like a men's rights activists, but we should be encouraging males at a young age to look towards alternative careers such as nursing.
Plus it would really help if every single patient would stop asking me when I planned on becoming a doctor.
