Re: Re: farewell to academe

[Doug Henwood]

Ellen Frank wrote:

>If you look at male/female ratios and average salaries
>across all levels of education, its very clear that
>the more a job entails actual teaching (as opposed to
>lecturing about one's pet obsessions), the lower the pay
>and status and the higher the percentage of women.  Close
>to 100% of kindergarten teachers are female.  The percent
>declines to 2/3 of middle-school teachers; 50 percent
>of high-school teachers; 40 percent of community college
>professors and about 25 percent of college professors.

Sounds like real teaching is like one of those notorious "caring" 
professions, which means lower pay and more women. It works like this 
with medical specialties, too, with GPs and psychiatrists at the low 
end of the pay scale.

Doug