SOC224H5 Lecture 2: SOC224 Lecture 2
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68% of teachers and professors are women; 84% at elementary level (2014) 76% of all education (bachelor"s) degrees are earned by women (2015) Women make up majority of all levels of educations (elementary. One exception is university women are 40% of professors. Highly female dominated field but has not always been the case. School promoters" work meant needing more people to teach than were qualified. Technical avoided a status hit unlike other female-dominated occupations. Low standards of who was going to teach. More of an emphasis now of certification, which elevated the. 1960s: status of teaching (happened in the 1960s) Bachelor"s degree: teachers were required to have this, if you were already teaching you could continue while getting the degree. Certification via a university: must be from a university, not from a teaching college. Specialization: stronger push to have teachers teach specific subjects (teachables) A lot of female dominated occupations are not seen as prestigious.
