A new study finds evidence that occupational gender bias has consequences for men who may consider entering healthcare, early education, or domestic fields (HEED). The findings indicate that men avoid HEED careers because they expect discrimination and worry about acceptance and judgment of others. The study, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, sheds light on the complexities of occupational gender bias and its societal repercussions.
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this already starts with quotas. if you apply for the meduni in vienna, you have to pass a test and based on your ranking you’ll get a spot - or not. BUT if more male candidates have higher scores than female ones, male candidates with better scores will get cut in favor for women with lower scores. so much for quality standards.
other problem in early education. male kindergarteners are often suspected by parents - mostly mothers - for being closeted pedophiles, often ending with them not being able to do their jobs properly.
male kindergarteners
You mean male teachers?
No, where I live (in Europe) kindergarteners and teachers have different roles and training.
Did you accidentally say kindergarteners are suspected to be pedophiles?
no. in europe still many parents think male kindergarten teachers and workers might be pedos because they can’t grasp another reason for them to do this job in the first place.
adit: “kindergarten teachers” and “school teachers” have different roles and training, you anglos use other names for them, so i might botched the translation. in our kindergarten and daycare they’re no teachers working, only in schools.
I understand. I thought there was a typo in your original comment.
Strangely enough, my husband is the one who is completely against our children having male teachers. I myself had a male kindergarten teacher, as did my brother, and my parents never had any issues with that. I don’t understand why my husband is so against male educators.
Bias against men and women aren’t made against and reinforced by members only just of the opposite sex. As you just shown as examples male parents of children can he just if not more discriminatory against other men themselves and it’s just as wrong.
Also, this is still a mostly American problem isn’t it?
yes. American culture is paranoid because of all the sensationalist media that has drummed up the idea that a male pedophile is lurking around every corner to rape your child.
oh and if a female pedophile rapes your child? wow, what a stud he is! how progressive she is for breaking gender norms!
I had male teachers in grammar school, middle school and high school. it’s bizarre for me to think that teaching outside of high school is mostly women.
That part about female pedophiles being accepted is an exaggeration, has no bearing on reality and doesn’t help any cause. Yes, women aren’t treated as guilty as men are for sex crimes against children, but even then this paranoia is spreading against women as well. For example, my coworker told me that she had a neighboring young boy that would go to her farm on occasion and she ended up taking precautions out of fear of being accused and sued, in similar way to what a man would do.
That title doesn’t really match the claims in the article. The title states that there is a gender bias in the field, but the article states that men avoid the fields because they expect a gender bias.
I imagine both are probably true to some extent, but they’re different issues with different solutions. The expectation of bias could quite possibly stem from societal gender standards that such fields aren’t proper for ‘real men’ rather than any actual real problems of bias in the fields (which again, I’m not denying the likely existence of).
