It's really only violence if it is man vs. woman.

[bettyellen]

110. good for you! i wish more people were in a position to work at what makes them happy

As far as the framing goes, it sucks that people need to try and make women feel guilty - or disrupt their conversations- because they are jealous of their success. That's time wasted not advocating for what you feel is important.

You really have to look at why it is so difficult to organize men- are they afraid of appearing weak? Are they too focused on short term or personal gains? Why aren't they pushing through- as women did a while back- and advocating in a big way for their causes already? I think you need to get past the blame game and stop being intimidated by women's success and instead, learn some lessons from them. No one handed this to us.

I'm not going to get into the whole monetary benefit thing, because I know you think there should be more men working in education- and we both know this is only going to happen if they start being compensated in an adequate fashion. I'm all for that too.
Women historically got into teaching because it was one of the few socially acceptable careers fifty years ago. Back then women weren't really "choosing" as much as permitted with reservations to have jobs. Careers were looked down upon. And fifty years ago, it was the rule and not the exception to grossly under compensate women. Hopefully we will have parity soon.