Study finds bias of female teachers against male students; female teachers give male students lower grades and performance reviews and male students are aware. No evidence that this is due to socioeconomic status.

MackNine · 2015-03-15T18:15:02+00:00

I thought it was common to have had a few female teachers that would openly demean the boys in class. Kids tend to be very observant, yet also accepting of all the world's bullshit.

AtlasLied · 2015-03-15T17:02:47+00:00

Oh and I'm sure a majority of teachers are female too... Great...

Apparently it was 84% female in 2011. Source

ThePigmanAgain · 2015-03-15T18:30:27+00:00

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Fizics · 2015-03-15T20:10:19+00:00

I said this for years, people said I was a misogynist. Do people really think that women that grew up listening to feminist propaganda that went on to become teachers wouldn't carry their biases with them? Especially with society's tacit approval? Men need a cultural revolution, whole male generations are at risk of this abuse.

Psionx0 · 2015-03-15T20:37:59+00:00

I was in a graduate class. One of the requirements of this class was that you could not miss more than 3 classes - if you did, you failed. It didn't matter if it was medical reasons or not.

I missed 2. The other male in the class missed 2. One of the women missed 9 (out of 16).

I read every chapter of the assigned books, and did a monumental amount of additional reading. The woman who missed 9 classes admitted to reading half of the assigned reading just before class, and admitting to making bullshit comments simply so the professor had the impression that she had done all the reading. The professor was female.

The two males in the class received C's or less (I received a D- and had to fight to have it moved to a C+ - the ONLY black mark on my record). The woman who should have failed (based on school and accreditation policies) - she was given an A.

MSgtGunny · 2015-03-15T16:39:26+00:00

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chocobo22 · 2015-03-15T19:14:39+00:00

I'm currently a junior in high school and I can completely confirm that this is the truth (as most guys probably can too). During my first semester this year I had a composition teacher who would give me the same grades as this girl in my class who's really nice but is one of the worst writers I've ever seen. On my final presentation based on a paper I wrote about Tesla, I got a 94 when the rubric my teacher gave back to me did not have anything bad to say about my presentation. It was also my only non honors/AP class. This kills the GPA

68696c6c · 2015-03-15T18:46:53+00:00

Shit, any male could have told you that.

Guyrannosaurus_Tex · 2015-03-15T23:20:05+00:00

I went to Catholic school and I vividly remember my teacher telling us that she gave better grades to the girls in an attempt to give them a leg up on getting into a better college. Thus potentially increasing their livelihoods by being able to get jobs that are on par with the potential earnings of the boys. I was dumbfounded.

2015-03-15T21:25:54+00:00

Both male and female students thought the male teacher would grade easier than a female teacher when in fact the male teacher gave male students slight preference. Female teacher gives preference to female students and the male students know it.

Edit: Oh, and the male teachers tried to help the female students while the female teachers gave up on the male students.

HappyMeerkat · 2015-03-16T00:00:15+00:00

I had this, I was the only boy in class and so she would often lock me into a small closet if I did extra work in free periods whilst the girls could be out in the class as much as they wanted. The teacher also made it uncomfortable for me to befriend any of the girls in the class by always saying I fancied the girl or how we should go out or kiss etc.

Regarding my grade she marked my work and would say it was a B/C and then give me hours of improvements and then give me an E, whilst giving the girls A/B's often when they all came to me for help! Regularly

under_score16 · 2015-03-15T21:04:43+00:00

This does support some of my personal experience. I had at least a couple teachers that were highly discriminatory based on gender. Against male students, that it. There may have been lesser biases from other teachers too, but I can remember a couple that stuck out as particularly egregious.

konoplya · 2015-03-15T21:52:15+00:00

can attest to that with at least one of my teachers while i was in college. my rolling average was B+ in her class, i scored an A on the final. my grade for the year ended up a D?? i was furious, tried to get into contact with her then went to the dean, after a lot of back and forth my grade was adjusted to a C. wow, thanks.

garebear3 · 2015-03-15T22:20:48+00:00

its not surprising to be honest, unfortunate, certainly but not surprising.

In high school i had a teacher like this, who openly told the class before mid term grades were assigned, that girls all get A's and boys all get B's because "That's how it supposed to be!" the unfortunate bit was that only 2 of the 10 boys objected and then were shouted down by the girls (20ish) in the class and the teacher as well calling us greedy and stupid to paraphrase.

the worst part was that no matter who the 2 of us told they never listened, thought we were being greedy and told us "You should be happy with the mark you have!"

this was all 10 years ago now, but if open discrimination without any shame was happening 10 years ago i cant imagine what its like today.

2015-03-15T22:56:12+00:00

I had a female professor back in college who one day outright told us that she grades higher for guys with long hair because it reminds her of her husband. I dropped that shit days later.

Sharkictus · 2015-03-16T00:01:58+00:00

Weird, because most girls I know hate girl teachers, prefer male ones, and think girls one were too hard on them.

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Anecdotal evidence though.

IMWazo · 2015-03-16T01:33:18+00:00

I tried my best in art class, not very artistic but enjoyed the class and did the best every project but i was almost given Cs and Bs, very few As. Girls on the other hand almost always got an A unless they blatantly didn't try. My teacher was a mid 60s female.

Kvantemekanik · 2015-03-16T02:30:40+00:00

Both male and female teachers favours female students from my experience.

spangdandled · 2015-03-15T17:40:41+00:00

Interesting piece of research but I think you've skewed the findings in the title to this thread TBH.

Akesgeroth · 2015-03-15T19:47:31+00:00

What about male teachers?

KingBatista · 2015-03-15T21:29:58+00:00

I'm not sure if I should be happy that all my female teachers love me and all my male teachers hate me.

TkilledJ · 2015-03-16T04:17:35+00:00

Noticed this study was performed in the UK. Similar findings were discovered in America as well:

http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/why-girls-do-better-in-school-010212/

social_chemo · 2015-03-16T14:45:16+00:00

All my worst, most malicious teachers over the years were women.

Someone can call this an anecdote except, you know, there's that actual study right at the top of this thread that confirms that this is a real phenomena.

activist115 · 2015-03-16T17:17:00+00:00

This is why we need to re segregate the school system based on gender.

killcat · 2015-03-15T19:12:14+00:00

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HappyMeerkat · 2015-03-15T23:49:59+00:00

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2015-03-16T00:00:24+00:00

Follow up study found the same correlation with male teachers.

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