Remember last year when the government had to threaten to change our sex discrimination laws so that men-only scholarships could be provided to entice boys to study to become primary school teachers? We had a “crisis in masculinity” both the Prime Minister and then Opposition Leader Mark Latham asserted, because primary school teachers were predominantly women and this was bad for boys. Where were their role models etc etc? So what are we to make of the news that only six of the 12 male-only scholarships offered by the Catholic Education Office have been taken up? Boys don’t want to teach primary school it seems. Even when offered preferential treatment. So what are we going to do about this ongoing crisis in masculinity? Maybe we could increase the pay and the status of primary school teachers? That might bring in the boys – and be just rewards for the thousands of women who keep the system going. Just a thought.
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I understand that in the early 1970′s teachers wages were on par with parliamentary back benchers. With that parity lost you don’t have to be Einstein to know why parliament is so over-run with blokes and the education system has become under-funded and the work of women do within in it under-valued.
I understand that in the early 1970′s teachers wages were on par with parliamentary back benchers. With that parity lost you don’t have to be Einstein to know why parliament is so over-run with blokes and the education system has become under-funded and the work women do within in it under-valued.