WOMEN REPLACING MEN
v SCHOOL TEACHERS. In. answer to Mr. Witty iA the House yesterday afternoon, the Minister of Education said : — There is a tendency nearly all over ths world for women, to replace men in scholastic positions formerly occupied by the latter alone j but the scarcity of male teachers k not nearly so marked in New Zealand as in most, other countries. It does not necessarily follow that the tendency (in moderation at all event#) is bad. Half the children in our public schools are under the age of ten, and women teachers are presumably most suitable for them; nearly half the remainder or nearly a quarter of the whole number are girls over ten, and it is generally conceded that they should b» taught by women. So far as class-teaching is concerned there would be nothing to fear, therefore, if the proportion of women teachers to men teachers were three to one. No doubt the difficulty in directing certain mixed schools renders it desirable that the proportion of men should be greater than this; in New Zealand it is more than twice as great.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1913, Page 4
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