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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by manfredo on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:12PM (#19305561)
How many schools have 50% make teachers? Is it because education has a rampant sexism problem? Or is it because men and women have different preferences?
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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by JKCalhoun on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:50PM (#19305939)
Anecdotal of course, but I have an education degree. Also learned to code. (Also, am male.)

Why am I not a teacher but instead a programmer?

Money. I feel, as a male, I need to be the "bread winner". Sure, that's something society has imposed on me — or perhaps I allowed to impose on me. But there you are.

If other men feel as I do, they may be drawn away from the notoriously underpaid field of education.

Too bad. If money were not in the equation, I am fairly sure I would have found more personal satisfaction from that career than the one I chose.

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Re:Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Under... by lazyasciiart on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:18PM (#19306157)
It's at least partly because of rampant sexism and social suspicion of men who want to spend time around children.
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