Gender and WW

[krista7]

No: HPFGUIDX 143628


One final post on this thread for me: 

Geoff wrote:

"First of all, I was attempting to point out a.) the plethora of 
female teachers is consistent with the view that teaching children is 
a "female" job"

>>Speaking as a teacher of 32 years' experience in a South-west London 
>>school teaching mainly teenagers, that remark verged on the 
>>ridiculous. I worked in a school where the balance....

I've gone back and forth on how to answer this properly, but let me go
 for the simplest version: I don't believe for a second teaching children 
is a "female job" (I don't believe there is such a thing to begin with!). I 
was discussing stereotypes of women, and the evidence in the text
that is consistent with those stereotypes. I certainly did not mean to imply (ever) that 
stereotypes=facts. 

As for Transfiguration--I didn't mean to write off Transfiguration; I just don't 
know what to do with it in terms of evidence, one way or the other. No disrespect to 
MM intended, of course!

Last but not least: Thanks to those who confirmed my memory of Durmstrang and 
corrected me on Beauxbatons. I am grateful for your (collective) memory!

Krista