Traditionally female-dominated careers still draw few men

 Experts Call for Expanding Boys' Career Options      
     
        This article spent a good amount of time talking about the trend after
Title IX of women entering more male dominated careers. Reported by the
article, apparently since that time the percentage of male college
graduates has decreased, male unemployment has increased, and the
discrepancy between male entering typically women dominated careers and
women entering typically male dominated careers has widened. There has
been so much focus on women needing to take a more active role in all
aspects of the workforce that there has now grown a gap to where some
studies have had to focus on now encouraging men to enter typically
female centered workplaces, like nursing and education. The premise of
the entire article really was summed up well with one quote by  Thomas
Mortenson, a senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of
Opportunity in Higher Education, “My perception over the last 40 years is
we’ve provided a lot of support and encouragement for girls to try and
take on new things,” he said, “but I’ve also seen no special effort to
encourage boys to take on different subjects.”
        The reality of the situation is that women have accepted the role of
stepping outside the “traditional boundaries” set by society and that men
have not. Although complete ‘equality’ in my mind is unattainable at this
point because of many years of twisted beliefs, we really should try to
be conscious. Conscious of the fact that when it comes to being an
educator, we need to encourage and prepare any and all of our students
for any career that might interest them. Please do not misquote or
misunderstand me, I truly do believe in gender equality in every aspect
of the word and I do believe that any man or woman that put their minds
to a specific job could and deserve to be successful at it. The push and
pull of really putting the focus of trying to equal things out, like
telling men they should start pursing typically female dominated careers
or visa versa might just elongate the battle. It may be far off, but
making an effort at not recognizing any career as typically dominated by
any sex would, and should really be the ultimate goal.