[Ammi]

..a little while ago, there was a small discussion at a cluster meeting..(so it's only a comparatively small experience of schools, I know....)...and generalising obviously...of how in our school and other local ones and with after school activities, girls tend to expand out more...it's quite an even boy/girl thing with activities chosen in things like football/rugby, which would be deemed more male...?..but a high percentage of girls show interest as well...but with what would be deemed more female things like any cooking related thing/crochet/knitting etc or sports like netball, dance..?.../there are very few boys who do these things....so not expanding so much..and maybe that's partly a peer pressure thing...anyways, I don't know how relative but just interesting and something that's been discussed....

...interesting as well that we're told that girls tend to be the higher achievers, academically...and yet we're also told that they're the lower earners/disadvantaged there, in the work place...so despite being lower achievers, then...boys still excel more in the work place..?..or are recognised more..?...


..I think that in general, people aren't choosing the teaching profession so much because it's just not so much about teaching and time in the classroom, which is why it's always been chosen as a vocation but there are probably more male primary school teachers now as there has ever been....males though, don't tend to choose primary school teaching because it hasn't got the potential of career, that schools for older children have...it's also a completely different structure because it doesn't (mostly) have subject teachers, but just class teachers....and males tend to prefer to teach in their own specialist subject, rather than more 'bite sizes' of every subject...