Feminization In Education

Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. (Goldstein) Teachers are authority figures meant to educate students. To be educated means to remember an idea, having the ability to apply it, and to understand it. And because this exists, everything about the public schools; how they are staffed, funded, mainly how they are organized to do their work should be based within the best interests of the children. By examining history throughout teaching we can see the rise of teacher unions and the equality within the system. During the colonial times, The United States Constitution did not see education as a right, therefore attendance was not required. There were few public schools, typically

Feminization is the shift of gender roles in a society, group or organization towards the feminine. Not only did the shift of feminization among teachers change how society perceived women, but how they perceived themselves. This shift towards women in schooling is seen because women by nature are more nurturing and maternal as well as high moral character. Teachers were seen to be role models of upright living. (Levin et al) Looking at the physiological differences between men and women, many reformers were concerned about the women’s ability to maintain order and discipline within a classroom. Men were known to be taller, stronger and would even flirt or defy their authority. During this time period many teachers were not even fifteen years old and teaching. (Levin et al) Even though women were becoming more educated than ever before, many people mocked women 's true intellectual ability. Women were only paid one-third that of men and most states put in testing requirements for teachers. (Goldstein, 36) This led to the one clear downside of feminization, that because of sexism, the political class would never respect a workforce dominated by