The reason for this is complicated though. To say that it's just that political climate and that people don't care about men's issue is doing it such a disservice. The reason there's so much media attention on the issues of women and minorities is because generally speaking any issues faced by cisgender heterosexual white men are considered important by default. You usually don't have to fight for them because the people in power will just fix them.
So it's fascinating that there are issues faced by this population that aren't moving despite everything being aligned to just make them go away and that you have to fight for them like they were minority issues. And what's crazy is that for these issues the population you need to convince that these issues are important are white men!
Specifically for gender representation in nursing and teaching there's three main barriers to have to be broken down to get people to care about them.
1. That the factors that are keeping men out of teaching and nursing are internal -- lack of motivation or ability, rather than external factors like discrimination or access to education.
2. That nursing and teaching are "low status" careers so it doesn't matter if there's a gender gap because nobody is really clamoring to be one.
3. That nursing and teaching are "women's work," which is especially funny since teaching used to be male dominated.
> any issues faced by cisgender heterosexual white men are considered important by default
Any evidence for this? To me it seems like people care much more about homeless women even though most homeless are men, they care more about womens suicides even though men kill themselves more, they care more about when women get murdered even though men get murdered more etc.
People care more about white people than black people, yes. People care more about cis than trans, yes. But I have seen no evidence at all that people care more about men than women.
I rarely ever heard about homeless women and constantly hear about homeless men. This one, where male homelessness is not cared about is just lie.
The people who talk about female suicides are the ones who argue that women should go back to traditional home. They are hardly feminists and suicides are not much topic related to women.
> I rarely ever heard about homeless women and constantly hear about homeless men.
Are you just making that up? Have you seen any homeless shelters exclusively serving men? There are plenty for women. Or do you just assume that when people say "homeless" they mean a man since most homeless women have already gotten help and therefore isn't homeless? I haven't seen a single article arguing that we should prioritize male homelessness, but plenty that we should prioritize female homelessness.
>>cisgender heterosexual white men are considered important by default. You usually don't have to fight for them because the people in power will just fix them.
This is such a lie, From mental Health, to Domestic Abuse, to Substance abuse, there is almost zero funding, or support for programs targeting men; race not withstanding.
Try opening a Domestic Violence Shelter for men and see what happens, as a man try going to a domestic violence shelter for aid and see what happens
It is "Suck it up and be a man" that is societal response and has been for decades. This is why male suicide is through the roof.
>>Specifically for gender representation in nursing and teaching there's three main barriers
While some of those are true, there is also a societal narrative that men are abusers, that men can not be trusted with children. Be a single dad and take your child to the park and see the looks from others there, in some cases maybe even has the cops called on you...
This extends to teaching and nursing as well. This is related to number 3, but you paint it has a gender norms issue, and while that is some of it, that issue is far more complex then you are leading on.
I honestly don't remember 54-46 split in other direction in something being treated as big deal. In literally any context where there were 46% of women people treated it as being just about the same.
Seen as another example of Sexism in Higher Education
Interesting how things change