Look into how badly boys do at school when there teachers are female - or how badly girls do when their teachers are men. The evidence is that neither do well in those circumstances.
Women and men are very very very different thank goodness. If you're missing out on either of them, you're missing out on a complete other world.
Just from my own anecdotal evidence, my ability to learn from a teacher was based far more on their knowledge and passion than their genitalia.
I'm sorry but if you believe that you're blind, or really haven't lived.
Your statement sums up what is wrong with the political correctness/equality mob. Men and women are not equal. They will never be. Thank goodness. Celebrate the differences. Embrace them. Don't just blindly pretend they don't exist.
http://www.menteach.org/news/its_not_who_but_how_boys_are_ta...
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/boys-taught-men-do-better-stu...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/30/primaryschoo...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/5294854.stm
"A study of 25,000 pupils by Stanford University economist Thomas Dee found children did 4% better in tests when their teachers were of the same sex"
"In general, girls learned more with female teachers and boys with male teachers"
"A large fraction of boys' dramatic underperformance in reading is linked to the fact that their reading teachers are overwhelmingly female," Dee concludes.
There are a large number of similar studies with similar results.
My experience, including my kids experience of various teachers, is that they are not.
Of course it's a "controversial" study - it highlights differences between the sexes. Which isn't "cool" in this politically correct age.
The claim you're citing is surprising not only because it defies conventional wisdom (which it does), but also implies that whole of the American educational system is built on an easily-corrected inefficiency. Why can't you marshall better evidence for your extraordinary claim? Why don't you have a better source than an untenured Swarthmore professor writing in a journal with dubious peer review?
Is there some huge man-woman socio-cultural hoo-hah I'm missing about what our relationship imparts on our children that would be dramatically different if I was replaced with an equally loving woman? Perhaps the pancakes would become crepes (though I'm good at that too). The whole of western civilization shudders.
There might be a real argument you have to make, axod, but you have to actually make it. Innuendo doesn't cut it.