Perhaps, but there is a rock solid reality that 50 years ago the odds were stacked such that most (not all) highly capable women who wanted a professional career went into teaching. They were underpaid and under appreciated. The women's movement changed that landscape dramatically, leaving teachers still underpaid, but gutting their rank…
Perhaps, but there is a rock solid reality that 50 years ago the odds were stacked such that most (not all) highly capable women who wanted a professional career went into teaching. They were underpaid and under appreciated. The women's movement changed that landscape dramatically, leaving teachers still underpaid, but gutting their ranks of the many thousands of highly capable women who would have otherwise gone in that direction.
In my career at Boeing I saw many talented women engineers and assembly workers who could not have gotten those kinds of jobs in the 1950s and 60s. Those doors were closed, so they went elsewhere, and often that meant teaching. There was and still is a lot of gender discrimination in the workplace, but it is mostly on the job now and not nearly as much as it once was at the employment office.
Perhaps, but there is a rock solid reality that 50 years ago the odds were stacked such that most (not all) highly capable women who wanted a professional career went into teaching. They were underpaid and under appreciated. The women's movement changed that landscape dramatically, leaving teachers still underpaid, but gutting their ranks of the many thousands of highly capable women who would have otherwise gone in that direction.
In my career at Boeing I saw many talented women engineers and assembly workers who could not have gotten those kinds of jobs in the 1950s and 60s. Those doors were closed, so they went elsewhere, and often that meant teaching. There was and still is a lot of gender discrimination in the workplace, but it is mostly on the job now and not nearly as much as it once was at the employment office.