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Over my years of teaching, I have found it frustrating and problematic that teacher culture is highly gendered. Statistically, we live in a reality of a 80-90% white teaching force and the majority of the teaching force is also statistically "female". There are deep historical reasons for this based on gendered politics and gender norms in our society. For example, teaching was one of the few jobs that women were allowed to occupy once the development of the Common Schools expanded in the 1890s. This history still sticks because women have been stereotyped as caretakers more so than men, and more fit to do the labor of rearing children. The political aspect of this is complicated by the wage disparity for teachers. Researchers believe that one reason teachers are paid less in terms of social strata is because teaching is generally considered a "woman's field". This is one reason why it is often a novelty to have a male teacher (in public education). I also found this hard to deal with in schooling spaces where it is mostly women and there is a feminine culture of teaching. I would describe this feminine culture by a few characteristics such as taking a very mom-like role as a teacher, having lots of extras like snacks and decorations in the classroom, being competitive w/other teachers about appearance, weight loss, or participation in the social culture they decide upon. Elementary school may be a spot to locate this culture more specifically wherein Secondary may be more pocketed. This is because Secondary also comes with gendered norms. There are typically more men in Secondary because there is an emphasis on curricular content. Here, the intellectual work is assumed to be more of men's work. Knowing these cultural trends and patterns made it hard for me to find my fit in certain schooling spaces. I had to block out some of the extra expectations and competitions from colleagues and focus on what I felt were my strengths as a teacher with my students. I am wondering if anyone else here has noticed or wondered about some of the things I have mentioned above? What are you seeing? How are you feeling about it?

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I think gender roles often are a major factor in the way people perceive their own identity. For instance, our society tends to alter its perceptions of cultural and gender norms as time passes and generations grow and develop. The major issue that I believe comes with gender roles and norms is that people often feel forced to fit into them. Thus, when they fail to comply with these social, cultural, and gender norms these people often feel excluded and or unappreciated by our community. A major example of gender roles can be seen when declaring majors. People often associate majors such as education and nursing with females and majors such as business and engineering with males. Thus, when people attempt to break through these gender norms and roles, they often experience difficulty. This difficulty often comes from society's belief that males have a greater capacity to create within the workplace and that females must pursue roles that allow them to be caretakers. Personally, I believe that these norms can be extremely detrimental as they discourage people to fight against them and try to educate themselves in a wider variety of fields.

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I think culture is an important thing to remember when teaching inside the classroom. It is common to forget that every student grows up with a different background and that students take things that they learn differently depending in how they are raised. Additionally, race plays a significant role in the classroom. As we spoke about in class, it is more common for males to get called on and to become more confident inside of the classroom rather than females. I think sexuality should be taught starting at a young age like we spoke about in class. It is now starting to become a topic that is more common to talk about which I really like because students at a young age should understand that they can be whoever they want to be no matter their gender or race.

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As much as faculty, staff, and students like to categorize QU as a safe space for everyone, unfortunately we have many of the same gender roles that we encounter outside of school. For example, choice in major is a huge gender role in society that is also presented within QU. As a society, health related and education majors are considered "female" careers whereas business and construction majors are considered "male" careers. When you look at the QU page, looking through the pictures included in the websites focused on majors, the nursing page has many images that include mainly females. For business majors, many of the pictures included involve males. Presenting this gender divide in majors creates the implication that the majors at QU are also gender restricted even though that is not the intension. For a male student applying for a health major, they may feel underrepresented when applying and seeing that females are dominant within QU's nursing page. It is a simple fix but it can have major implications.

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I agree and have also noticed these topics you are talking about. I have also wondered why most teachers tend to be women at the lower levels and gradually there starts to be more males in higher levels of education. I feel like it still isn't a norm that a male is a preschool teacher because men still aren't seen as a comforting figure for young children. I think that people still see woman as a better fit for children rather than males.

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I can totally agree with some of the points that you made. I don't think I had a male teacher until about 6th or 7th grade. I also realized that in high school, my harder classes (AP and honors) were usually taught by males, and my easier classes were taught by females. Here at QU, I am a nursing major and gender is greatly incorporated in the nursing field. Obviously, most nursing students are females, and I wonder how that impacts male nursing students. I also know that there are other majors, including some STEM majors that are mostly men and barely any women. It is clear that people fall towards expected gender roles at times, but I wonder why. I am a big feminist and I still choose nursing because I like it and feel like it would be a good fit for me. I knew that nursing was primarily women, but I am not ashamed to go into that field because it's a women's field. We also have a female President here at QU, and I bet that she has different views and makes different decisions than a male president would. Gender is communicated at QU by having these gender roles apply to majors and also the classes that we are taking. I have taken a few women and genders studies class and there have been 1 or no boys in all of those classes. I actually wish that more men would take those classes here to learn about the inequality of gender and also issues with gender identity.

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Quinnipiac incorporates a safe environment for gender roles and ensures that students and teachers are comfortable with their self-identity on campus. Although Quinnipiac makes students feel comfortable with their gender roles, you can observe the gender differences when it comes to majors on campus. For example, nursing majors are mostly female, and engineering majors are mostly male. I also came to a realization that male sports get more credit than female sports on campus and outside of campus. I believe gender roles form from what we were taught during our developmental stages and they are culturally influenced. Repeated socialization leads men and women to follow a socially constructed role. Gender stereotypes limit women's and men's capacity to develop their personal abilities, professional careers, and make choices about their lives. After today’s class, I came to a realization about teacher gender roles that I never paid attention to. In high school, most of my Math and History teachers were male and English teachers were female. Something really shocking is that all my teachers from kindergarten up until 8th grade were female.

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Something I noticed almost immediately is that in my education classes, they are female dominated. As a female student, this doesn't affect me in a negative way at all; however I wonder how male students feel about this. Many of my friends who are majors in mostly male dominated fields often feel as if they have to compete with their male classmates, and this definitley translates to the workforce power struggles with men and women.

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Although I would like to say that QU is inclusive and representative of all genders, I don't believe that it is. This is not to say that we don't have a variety of genders on campus, but that there is not equality or equity among our population. QU in general is a predominantly female school, with many of its major areas considered "female" dominated fields such as nursing or education. This leaves out the male gender or other identities that are often not even consider in stats when looking at gender on campus, such as identifying as non-binary. Although this is not something that affects me, as a cis gendered female student who sees herself represented among students and staff, but this can affect students and even faculty members that do not see themselves represented or treated equally and with equity on our campus. It is not only the population on campus as a whole that is an issue, but also how it affects those in the "gendered" majors discussed earlier, such as nursing. I think as a campus we could do better at being inclusive and educating ourselves on how to be more inclusive. I took a women and gender studies course last semester and learned a lot about gender, but if I hadn't searched for that class myself, I wouldn't have even known it was there. If we aren't willing to promote classes that discuss the issues of gender inequality, how can we truly say that we are inclusive of all genders and want our students to have a diverse and inclusive educational experience. We can and must do better moving forward as a campus when discussing topics of race, the LGBTQ+ community and even gender because we like to give off the idea that we are an all inclusive campus, when that unfortunately is not the reality.

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I feel that gender roles have an effect on the QU culture. Although Quinnipiac does their best to provide a safe environment for all students, it is clear that gender roles still impact students decisions. I feel that students think as though they need to fit in to certain groups based on gender roles. As a female student in the nursing program here at Quinnipiac, I can see how gender roles impact students’ decisions. When choosing a major, I feel that some students may think about gender before doing so. As a society, nursing majors are considered to be a female career. There are only a few male students in the nursing program. On the other hand, business is seen to be as more of a male career. Although this is not necessarily true for all students, I feel that many students just follow society’s choice on what is a female career and what is a male career. I feel that as a community here, we can do a better job at making these majors less based on gender, and more based on the true interest of the students. We can do this by showing off more females in the business programs, and more of the males in the nursing programs.

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Something I have noticed on the QU campus is the lack of gender diversity in the majors and programs. Being in the education program, I have noticed that it is a female dominant program. In my education class from last semester, there was only one male in the class. I am also an english major, and in many of my classes, they are female dominant. I have noticed this in many different major at QU and across the country. Males are usually dominant over majors like engineering, STEM majors and business, while females are dominant over majors like nursing, arts and health sciences. Overall, while the country has been trying to improve and make it more aware you can chose whatever major you want, people still get judged for choosing majors that aren't typically for their gender.

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I think that throughout QU there are several things that I notice about gender and gender roles almost immediately, and some that I’ve picked up on after being a student here for two years.

I think that the men on campus definitely have the control and privilege. Despite being a female dominated school, I think that that leads men to eventually have the higher up, if that makes sense, since there are so many girls looking to form relationships/friendships with a pool of men that is so much smaller. They take advantage of the fact that they won’t have an issue finding a girl to hangout with.
Again, despite being a dominantly female school, mens sports are much more highlighted and driven to other students compared to the women’s sports. You’re always hearing about when the next guys hockey game is, but never the women’s hockey team. Sports game attendance is so much higher for the mens teams, and their equipment and funding is said to be significantly greater. It has also been brought to my attention that mens hockey tickets are $15-20, compared to women's hockey tickets which are around $5-10.

Also, as mentioned before, you can totally tell that there is a commonality in majors. As a nursing major, I genuinely only know one male in my program after two years of being here. Females take up a majority of nursing and education majors, while men primarily account for engineering and business/marketing. When I walk through the engineering floor of the CCE building and study down there, I feel like everyone looks at me like I have 7 heads.

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Gender equality within the Quinnipiac community can be described as decent. The campus is home to both male and female students, however females do definitely dominating the campus number wise. Quinnipiac does recognize that students identities are important, and they do represent the students equally within our Quinnipiac Bubble. Students are encouraged to state their pronouns and share with their peers what they identify as. This is a great example of how accepting Quinnipiac truly is. With this being said, Quinnipiac does struggle when it comes to the interaction between different groups of people. It is very evident that there are some Quinnipiac students who are not accepting and are not okay with the identities of other people. Overall the interaction between students is good with the exception of some circumstances. For example, graduate students interacting with undergraduate students is a more professional interaction than the ones undergraduate students have with each other. I found this to be very weird, as undergraduate students are around the same age, and are typically going through similar situations when compared to a graduate students who is more work centered and is leaning away from the schooling for the most part. In my opinion the interactions in our community is spilt. Either you have amazing interactions or you have very awkward interactions.But, no matter what identity is always supported on campus!

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When it comes to gender equality, I feel that quinnipiac could do a better job. Although there is a good mix of staff being male and female, I feel that quinnipiac can do a better job when it comes to addressing gender equality as well as how people identify when it comes to gender. I also believe that  people interact differently at quinnipiac. I believe I have a diverse group of people I interact with and am very accepting and open with everyone. However, some students are not as open and it shows. Men on campus tend to be a bit degrading when it comes to women on campus. Being an occupational therapy major, there are only about 3-4 men ina. 90 student program. This shocked me when I came to quinnipiac. This shows that there really is a lack of gender diversity in some of the fields, and majors at quinnipiac.

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Gender equality at QU is not great, considering the school is mostly females. There are a lot of majors on campus such as OT, nursing, other health science majors, and education that are primarily females. I think the statistics of men to women on campus this can affect QU culture and already has. A good thing QU has done in the recent years is become more open about student identity policies by letting people state their pronouns anytime they can. I remember at orientation one of the first things we did was state our pronouns and it was the first time I really heard of it. That being said, there is always room to improve especially with inclusivity.

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Quinnipiac offers many different fields to study. However, it is obvious most majors or fields here are dominated by specific genders. For example, nursing, health sciences, education is mainly dominated by females, while all areas of business are dominated by males. Is it hard for a male who wants to pursue nursing, and feels "weird" being one of the only males in that field at this specific school. This happens at most small colleges, and most people follow what society tells them is "normal". There can be much improvement in our society by treating all genders equally, without feeling uncomfortable or out of place.

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I'm a psychology major, with women and gender studies as my minor, and I very rarely have a class that has more than a couple of men in it. For psychology my professors have been split between men and women, but for women and gender studies all of my professors have been women. For some of my gender studies classes, there were no male students at all. I think this is a shame because those classes provided women's perspectives that I think men would benefit from hearing, but men avoid those classes because they feel as though they are "for women". There's also a large lack of racial diversity at Quinnipiac. The overwhelming majority of professors and students in my classes are white. I think class discussions would greatly benefit by having a wider variety of perspectives.

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There are many gender roles that play a part in the Quinnipiac community. There are many majors that are offered. There are certain majors that are more dominated by men and some that are more dominated by women. For example, finance and business, there are an overwhelming amount of men in that field. In majors like nursing or teaching, many of the students are female. This is not fair and it is a biased. There should not be specific majors that fit only some genders. The Quinnipiac community is also affected by gender norms and roles in sports. Many men support and love the sports teams, but when women support the team, they are seen as girls who are only in it for the athletes.

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SAMPLE STUDENT ANSWER: I've noticed a lot at my internship site that male students will react differently with male and female teachers. The male students will often push boundaries with female teachers that they wouldn't with the male teachers. I have also noticed that administrators and other teachers will respond differently to strictness with male teachers than with female teachers. Female teachers are expected to be even-tempered and never yell, always treat the students with a nurturing and kind disposition. For the male teachers, administrators and other teachers value strictness, and will often be respected if they yell or are harsh with students, where the female teachers will not be respected if they display that kind of behavior. When the male teachers yell or display more assertive behavior, I have also noticed that the male students will often "fall in line" and will respect their male teachers, while I have noticed that the male students will often mock and talk over female teachers when they are pushed to more assertive behaviors in the classroom. I think that maybe this behavior is learned throughout society, or that they may see this type of behavior exhibited at home.

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I believe that gender roles are enshrined in every aspect here at QU. Which can be seen in how certain majors are dominated by either gender. For instance, you can see that business majors mostly consist of men and any business classes you take as a female would leave you underrepresented in comparison to the overall population. As well as with health science and education majors as well, which are predominantly dominated by women. But the demographics on our campus also leave out others who don't conform to one gender or the other which represents a small portion of the population here on campus. I think that the haves would include people who find a major or area of study based on the gender representation within that field. Like how a female student would most likely pick an area that is filled and dominated by women. But the have nots are those who don't necessarily prescribe to those norms. Gender roles also play a huge part in ones identity because we define ourselves based on the comparisons with other people. I think gender roles and identity affect QU culture when interacting on and off campus based on just the set of norms and values that has persisted on this campus for most of history. You prescribe to the area that you fall into, and those who don't are often left out or ignored.

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We feel as if there is a stigma towards certain majors having more of one gender than the other. One example would be finding less males in the nursing program here at QU and seeing more females. Another example is in the business program you might find more males than females. In our opinion we don't think your major should have a higher amount of one specific gender. People should feel like they can study anything they choose it shouldn't depend on your gender.