In celebration of National Teacher Week I’d like to talk about the many women in teaching. It is of no surprise that teaching is a female dominated profession. Back in September the New York Times published an article “ Why don’t more men go into teaching ?” citing that more than 75% of all teachers K-12 are female. In high school classrooms that percentage jumps to 80%. So why so many women in teaching? It wasn’t always this way. As I describe in my book The Teaching Brain , before teaching became a mostly female profession, young men went into teaching for one or two years to gain practical...