The following discussion aims to consider a wide spread literature search found to examine why are there fewer men working in different childcare settings and other practitioners views of men in childcare/education. Throughout the literature research common themes arose giving areas to consider when exploring the aims. Is that better...MORE GROWN UP??
MEDIA GOVERNMENT – influences (1. 2.) STEREOTYPES (1. 2.)
During the 19th Century education was seen as a masculine job and women were only there to assist the men in teaching (Smedley, 2007), although through evolution, starting in the 1840’s, careers and different jobs became increasingly appealing to men, as from the 20th century the gender defined jobs were apparent in Britain, introducing …show more content…
However within today’s society the view into childcare by some men is still the lack of professional progression available but also the thought of the job being ‘hard work’ when looking after children (Baker 2012), especially the young with the required patience and meeting the children’s needs on a constant basis. Although due to childcare ranging from nought up until the children are adults, this gives practitioners a larger scope in which to consider working with different age ranges, in this case what are men’s and women’s views when working with different age ranges? Inside MAN5 (2014) researches many male practitioners views and over 50% of men worried about others views and the peer pressure when working with children under five and about potential allegations being made when changing a child’s nappy, and yet this view is not portrayed when a father has a child so why in the case of childcare is this seen negative. Further research showed males avoided choosing education/childcare as a career path because of judgment by family and friends, society’s ‘negative’ outlook and bias when working with children due to the feminist role, teachers bias and the gender of the children working with (Baker, 2012; Erden, Olgun and Ciftci, 2011; Sak, Sahin and Sahin, 2012; Washington, 2009), Coutler and Greig (2008) argue that women working in childcare/
MEDIA GOVERNMENT – influences (1. 2.) STEREOTYPES (1. 2.)
During the 19th Century education was seen as a masculine job and women were only there to assist the men in teaching (Smedley, 2007), although through evolution, starting in the 1840’s, careers and different jobs became increasingly appealing to men, as from the 20th century the gender defined jobs were apparent in Britain, introducing …show more content…
However within today’s society the view into childcare by some men is still the lack of professional progression available but also the thought of the job being ‘hard work’ when looking after children (Baker 2012), especially the young with the required patience and meeting the children’s needs on a constant basis. Although due to childcare ranging from nought up until the children are adults, this gives practitioners a larger scope in which to consider working with different age ranges, in this case what are men’s and women’s views when working with different age ranges? Inside MAN5 (2014) researches many male practitioners views and over 50% of men worried about others views and the peer pressure when working with children under five and about potential allegations being made when changing a child’s nappy, and yet this view is not portrayed when a father has a child so why in the case of childcare is this seen negative. Further research showed males avoided choosing education/childcare as a career path because of judgment by family and friends, society’s ‘negative’ outlook and bias when working with children due to the feminist role, teachers bias and the gender of the children working with (Baker, 2012; Erden, Olgun and Ciftci, 2011; Sak, Sahin and Sahin, 2012; Washington, 2009), Coutler and Greig (2008) argue that women working in childcare/