In fact, it is old news that the local education bureau: it is fair to set up a gender gap.

On the evening of November 14th, a screenshot of the list of candidates for public recruitment of primary and secondary school teachers caused controversy in Weibo.

On the list, the posts of primary school Chinese teachers are divided into primary school Chinese for male recruitment and primary school Chinese for female recruitment, with 5% for the same post and 5% for different genders. On the list of publicity, most of the boys to be recruited are undergraduates from Lingnan Normal University, City College of Dongguan University of Technology, Science and Technology College of Gannan Normal University, Zhaoqing College and other institutions; Most of the girls to be recruited are graduate students from Nanjing University, Sichuan University, Jilin University and other institutions, and the undergraduate degree is also concentrated in famous universities such as Nanjing University, Beijing Normal University, Sun Yat-sen University and Xiamen University. There are obvious differences in educational background and school background between men and women in the same position, and many netizens said it was "unfair".

According to the screenshot of official website of Xiangzhou District Education Bureau in Zhuhai

Xiaoji, a party on the list, told the Red Star reporter that this is the public recruitment list of public primary and secondary school teachers by Xiangzhou District Education Bureau in Zhuhai in 22, which caused controversy at the beginning of its release in August 22, and had a "round of quarrels" in the recruitment group and online platforms. Despite this, the local recruitment of relevant positions in 221 and 222 still maintains the quota of 5% for men and 5% for women, and the differences in educational background and school background still exist. "What has changed is that the subsequent publicity is no longer with academic background." Xiaoji said that the controversy on the Weibo now is just that the old things have been rediscovered. As of press time, Weibo, which has attracted hundreds of thousands of likes, has been deleted.

On November 16th, a reporter from Red Star called the local education bureau, and the staff responded: "We set the gender ratio 5/5 for the sake of fairness between men and women. It is not our wish to say that boys' test scores and schools are different."

In this regard, Xiong Bingqi, president of 21st Century Education Research Institute, told Red Star News reporter that academic background is not the standard for recruiting teachers, and the comprehensive ability should be assessed on the basis of the basic academic qualifications. The imbalance between male and female teachers is also an international problem. To improve the gender structure of teachers, efforts should be made to improve teachers' professional attractiveness.

The educational background and disparity between male and female teachers to be hired are questioned as unfair.

Local Education Bureau: The goal is to achieve fairness.

In addition to the list of candidates with educational background, interview results and comprehensive scores are also included in the information about the open recruitment of primary and secondary school teachers by Xiangzhou District Education Bureau of Zhuhai City. When Red Star journalists inquired about official website, they found that in 221, there were obvious differences in interview results between different genders. Taking the post of primary school Chinese teacher in 221 as an example, the interview scores of 11 boys who were shortlisted for physical examination ranged from 7.8 to 77, while the interview scores of 11 girls who were shortlisted for physical examination ranged from 85.6 to 92, that is, the highest score of boys in the same post was 8.6 points lower than the lowest score of girls.

221 interview results. According to the screenshot of official website, Education Bureau of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City

"The recruitment in that year was divided into two steps. The first round was the initial screening of resumes, and the second round was the online interview of leaders. After the interview, the interview will be set according to the ratio of 1: 2. On the girl side, I remember that there seemed to be tens of thousands of people applying for the exam. When it comes to resumes, girls are basically undergraduate or master's degrees in 211 schools. " Xiaoji recalled, "We all discussed this list after seeing it, but there was nothing we could do. Because we girls were separated from boys when we first started recruiting, we only knew the internal situation. " Xiaoji told the Red Star journalist.

Xiaoji told the Red Star journalist that such differences in academic qualifications and school background on the list had attracted complaints from the local education bureau. In this regard, the staff of the Education Bureau has responded. "Two years ago, someone complained about this issue, and their answer was to keep the gender balance in recruiting boys and girls." Xiaoji said.

On November 16th, a reporter from Red Star called the local education bureau, and a staff member responded: "We set the gender ratio 5/5 just for the sake of fairness between men and women. If the scores of boys in the exam and the schools shown are different, this is not what we want."

why are there obvious gender differences in the proposed recruitment list? The staff of the Education Bureau of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City said: "I think this is a social problem. Why can't boys win the exam now, including when they take the civil service exam? I think society should strive to improve the overall quality and level of boys. "

The staff member said that the local education bureau received a complaint again after the list attracted attention on social media. "We recently received a complaint. The complainant thinks that our post setting for men and women is very fair, and it does not recognize the views of gender discrimination and gender opposition on social media. Seeing these statements on social media now, the complainant asked us to intervene. We have also noticed these situations, but we can only say that when we set up, either men and women are recruited, or men and women are half-and-half, and there has never been any discrimination against boys or girls. We are equal. " The staff member said.

Expert: Improving the gender structure of teachers

Efforts should be made to improve teachers' professional attractiveness

Xiong Bingqi, president of 21st Century Institute of Education, told Red Star that it is nothing new that gender-specific admission causes the difference in scores between men and women.

Red Star journalists found that in May, 221, teachers in Changsha High-tech Zone were recruited by gender for the same position, and some candidates entered the re-examination after only getting 4 points, which caused a heated discussion. According to Zhengguan News, the official website of Changsha Education Bureau shows that in the "Changsha High-tech Zone 221 Open Recruitment Teacher Posts and Requirements Form" released on April 22, in the recruitment of the same position in the same school, the recruiting units are divided into men and women. Recruitment. The staff said that the reason for recruiting men and women separately in the same position is that the ratio of male and female teachers in primary education is seriously out of balance, and some students are not masculine enough and feminine. Improving the ratio of male teachers will help improve this situation. In addition, the staff stressed that after the written test, there will be layers of links such as trial teaching to check, and if the trial teaching does not exceed 8 points, it will not be able to enter the next selection link.

"When most of the applicants are women and there are few men, if men and women recruit together, all the men may be wiped out in the written test, and eventually more than 9% of the teachers who enter primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools will be women, which will affect the management and teaching of the school." Xiong Bingqi told Red Star journalists.

Xiong Bingqi believes that education background and school background are not the criteria for recruiting teachers. When the candidates meet the basic education requirements, the comprehensive ability should be assessed on this basis. "The practice of gender-specific recruitment is controversial. Some netizens will question that such recruitment is unfair. The school is more aware of its own recruitment, which is actually a very helpless practice. If you can recruit male teachers without gender-specific recruitment, why do you need gender-specific recruitment? "

So, in order to balance the ratio of male and female teachers, is it wise to enroll students by sex? Xiong Bingqi believes that the imbalance between male and female teachers is also an international problem. To curb the further imbalance of teachers' gender ratio and improve the gender structure of teachers, efforts should be made to improve teachers' professional attractiveness. In addition to salary, there are also factors that affect excellent talents' choice of teaching profession, such as working environment, work pressure, career stability, career development space and so on. Relatively speaking, the stability of teachers' profession is more attractive to women, while the requirements of men are not so high. To improve the attractiveness of teachers' profession, it is necessary to further stimulate the vitality of running schools, implement teachers' autonomy in education and teaching, and create a development environment for teachers to realize their educational ideals.

Red Star Journalist Intern reporter Wang Chenyuan reporter Wu Yang

Editor Ren Zhijiang Intern editor Luo Yuting