What's the deal?My director told me she won't renew my contract because they want to hire a female teacher. My foreign co-worker said that before he got hired at our academy, he was denied from a different branch of the same academy because they wanted a female teacher. I've seen it numerous times in job postings "Looking for female teachers only". If they were looking for a female teacher the whole time, it really feels like they just temporarily hired us because pickings were slim.On the surface level, sure, I get why academies do it. But it's just wierdly normalized here. This is legitimate discrimination based on gender, but nobody seems to really talk about it.
Billy? Care to interject here?
Apparently all the new EPIK hires in my area I am told are females. Maybe a couple of guys. It use to be mostly guys who came to Korea. Well, maybe now some of you will tell Korea to screwoff. Gotta go to where the demand outstrips the supply and pays you much better too.So, as I always say, go to China. Korea can be arrogant and obnoxious without you. If they want female teachers because they will be more complaint with worse and worse work environments then let them have each other. (I guess in my case, I have to wait for the vaccine restrictions to get lifted. But for those of you who took it and don't care, go for it. Country is already opening up and sending out PU letters.) Billy? Care to interject here?Korea is getting dumber and dumber all the time.....The ease of hiring teachers lately has made them become smaller and smaller minded just because they can. I have no doubt decades from now, China will do the same. But that day is not today.
the statistics of women vs men who go into the field of teaching staggeringly skews toward woman. is not surprise that the majority of new hires are woman, as that is overwhelmingly the gender that goes into the profession.
At every level, including university.
I think most people can check my posting history. I don't have much to say that I haven't said already.
Not sure where your ignorant hatred is coming from. Maybe you should try harder asshole, instead of trolling me. The picture of the new EPIK hires gathering this past fall that was sent to me were 98 per cent women and yes I was told they were mostly women. So, it was confirmed to me in my area. But you go back to being an obnoxious pompous ass.At any rate, most of the people who use to teach in Korea were men. But it has been more evenly split in recent years. There are plenty of women in spite of the stereotype that actually don't like kids nor teaching with them. But given that it's devolved into a low paying job, maybe they hire more women because they will complain less about that? Hard to say.
Those teachers are ideal.
Now we're talking
You like that, huh?
What's the deal? But it's just wierdly normalized here. This is legitimate discrimination based on gender, but nobody seems to really talk about it.
At least in Korea they're upfront about it. I thought it was comical that on may job applications in the US there is some notice about a non-discrimination policy despite being asked to provide your race, gender, abled-bodied status, and veteran status so that they can discriminate. If you're an abled-bodied white male who hasn't served in the military then you're SOL for a lot of jobs.
