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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So you would support reserving 50 per cent of the spaces in the Education program to men in order to address the egregious under-representation of men in the teaching profession?
There's every reason to believe this under-reprentation contributes to the endemic struggles boys are having in the education system today. Boys are far more likely than girls to be prescribed behavior-modifying drugs. They do worse than girls at every level. Are far more likely to drop out. They read less. They attend university in much lower numbers (only 40 per cent of post-secondary student today are male).
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If you can present some data showing a change in the numbers of male teachers correlating with a change in male performance in schools this point might have some merit.
Absent that data it's not a good argument.