Date: Mon, 27 Aug 1956 13:17:46 +0000
From: Yvonne Wong <yvonnew@jps.net>
To: pinhole@exploratorium.edu
Subject: Re: gender
Pinhole Listserv wrote:
>
At the risk of
> sounding like "but what about ME?", let me ask the question: what do I
> tell girls when they ask why I am not going to be their teacher past the
> entry-level courses, why the men who have only undergraduate biology
> degrees are teaching them physics and chemistry instead of the woman with
> the master's in geophysics? How do we educate middle-aged men in
> administration to see discrimination and know how serious the long-term
> effects are for our female students?
>
Are you a new teacher in this high school? I think you are given the
entry level classes because these are the toughest classes to teach.
Those men who have more seniority get the better classes where
students are more mature and have less discipline problems. I think
you best bet is to raise this issue with the parents in your school,
at the risk of alienating your school's administration and the fellow
science teachers.