Recently, a "list of teachers of primary and secondary vocational schools directly under the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of education in 2022 for public recruitment to enter the qualification review" circulated on the Internet. Many people questioned that the test scores of male teachers on the list were too different from those of female teachers, which was suspected of gender discrimination. For example, for the post of primary school Chinese teacher, the lowest score of male teachers is only 20.13, while the lowest score of female teachers is 56**
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Although the relevant parties quickly clarified the recruitment background and rules, they still could not quell the doubts.
Guangming Daily pointed out that this actually reflects the imbalance between male and female teachers in primary and secondary schools, and is becoming more and more prominent.
According to the data in the 2019 national education statistical report, the proportion of female teachers in senior high school, junior middle school and primary school is 54.37%, 57.8% and 70.02% respectively, and that in preschool is nearly 98%**
Compared with 20 years ago, the proportion of male teachers at all stages has decreased by nearly 20 percentage points.
Furthermore, the above figures are only the national average. The proportion of female teachers in some regions and schools is even higher. Some primary schools are all female teachers**
Some people in the educational circles commented that, to a certain extent, the imbalance of teachers' gender structure is the result of multiple factors including educational evaluation, social concepts, school management and economic and social development. Objectively speaking, it is not conducive to normal school education and teaching work, teacher education and teaching cooperation and education and teaching management to some extent.
PS: back in the 1980s, when I was in primary and secondary schools, there were many male teachers, often more than female teachers.