[Magdalen] Gender differentiation (was Re: BSA)

[Roger Stokes]

On 28/07/2015 21:20, H Angus wrote:
> Whenever women get into a previously all-male field, the prestige and pay of that field drops, and men start looking for the higher P&P jobs. Consider teaching, 100 years ago. All male. Now almost all teachers are women, but the *administrator* and *superintendent* jobs -- almost all male.

I have changed the subject to indicate a branch to something that is 
still important.  I am closely involved with schools as a school 
governor of primary/elementary schools and am only too aware of the lack 
of male role models among the staff in that age range.  Partly this has 
been due to the relative lack of promotion and salary prospects (smaller 
schools and less coming in per child) compared to schools with older 
children.  Sadly part of the reason may have been due to the unspoken 
thought that a man choosing to teach that age-renage may be a 
paedophile.  I regard noth of those causes as unfortunate because a 
child's early educational experience is crucial.

> High-pay jobs in the computer industry are pretty well dominated by males, and dominated is the word: some high-prestige males ferociously resist any female incursion into the high-prestige code realms. Surely none of this is news to anyone.

Coding, albeit simple, is now part of our primary/elementary school 
curriculum.  Has the current/historuc distinction been due, at least in 
part, to the assumption that men are more analytical (an essential part 
of coding) than women?

Roger