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On Point | Podcast

Falling Behind: Where have all the men gone?

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

After decades of decline, male teachers now make up less than a quarter of the public-school teaching force. What’s driving men away, and what would it take to bring them back? On Point’s weeklong series exploring boys and education continues.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's a lot to keep new parents awake at night.

0:03.9

But it won't be the prices at ASDA's Baby and Toddler event, starting from the 21st of April,

0:09.0

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0:13.3

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0:17.4

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0:22.0

That's Asda price. Select a source and line subject to availability as the reward requires

0:26.0

app and registration while membership per person full teas and sees azda.com slash rewards

0:29.4

slash terms. Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken? A podcast from BU's

0:35.2

Mayrotra Institute that explores questions like,

0:38.3

why are executives paid so much?

0:40.9

Do they deserve it?

0:42.2

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:46.2

WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

1:00.5

When a lot of people find out, oh, you're a kindergarten teacher, they are shocked.

1:03.3

They would never seem a guy would be teaching kindergarten.

1:06.7

You can't really blame them for being shocked, right? In the United States, 97% of all kindergarten teachers are women.

1:12.4

A mere 3% are men.

1:15.1

Anywhere else, that kind of gender lopsidedness in the workplace would trigger civil rights complaints or discrimination investigations.

1:22.8

But in education, it's just seen as normal.

1:27.1

Which is why, when Olante Douglas graduated from the University

1:30.5

of Georgia last December, he did indeed do a surprising thing when he decided to become a kindergarten

1:36.9

teacher. So my students, my little munchkins, it's about 18 of them and they're five and six

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