"Male educators constitute just 2.3% of pre-K and kindergarten teachers, 18.3% of the elementary and middle school teacher population, and 42% of the high school level teaching staff."
Due to sexism, men are less likely to join the field of teaching.
Girls have been encouraged to engage in male-dominated fields (math, science, etc.), but boys on the other hand have been given almost no initiative to engage in female-dominated professions; like in education.
Why do you think this is?
Robert M. Cappuozzo- “We don’t give boys the same opportunities that we give girls.”
Males who are teachers for the younger ages of students are more likely described as being "not masculine."
Male teachers are more looked at in being the disciplinary teachers. If a male teaches a younger age group and not too many problems occur, how can males inset their dominance in the classroom?
Teaching remains a feminized occupation.
"Women account for a slightly higher share of teachers in the private (73 percent) versus the public (72 percent) sector."
How have our social expectations effected the freedom of genders teaching different grade levels?
Salary Differences
"On average, public school teachers earn between about 25 to 119 percent more than private school teachers earn."
Why do you think public school teachers earn more than private school teachers?
Conservative Christian, Catholic parochial, and other religious-unaffiliated schools are the poorest paying, while Catholic, nonsectarian private, and special education schools are the highest paying nonpublic schools.
White and Hispanic male public school teachers earn higher salaries than their female equivalents.
"Male public school teachers earn between 10 to 13 percent more than females, on average, and a little more than half of this difference is accounted for by differences in the characteristics of male and female teachers."
Married females receive lower salaries than non-married females. What about males? There is no difference in their salary whether they are married or non-married.
Why would this matter?
On average, secondary teachers earn more than elementary school teachers. "In the public sector, this amounts to about 3.4 percent for females and 6.3 percent for males, while in the private sector, these differences amount to 13.1 percent for females and 14.8 percent for males.
They are both teachers; so why a difference in salary?