{"id":334,"date":"2009-01-24T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T05:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/?p=334"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:12:47","slug":"the-mentoring-gender-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/the-mentoring-gender-wars\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mentoring Gender Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https:\/\/heathervale.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/24\/the-mentoring-gender-wars\/&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=1&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:25px\"><\/iframe><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fheathervale.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F24%2Fthe-mentoring-gender-wars%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><p>In Toronto &#8212; where I spent 20 years of my life, starting at the formative age of 17 &#8212; there is a very varied multicultural society.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not unusual to hear about this Jewish Party, and that Greek Festival, and the parties and events in Chinatown and Little Italy&#8230; and that&#8217;s just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, the most popular restaurants serve food from one country or another, rather than a mixture of tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is divided up, and people refer to areas of the city by what cultural group tends to have congregated there.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, it seems that people love to segregate themselves.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just based on culture&#8230; they do it based on gender too.\u00a0 This Women&#8217;s Group, that Men&#8217;s Society, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>So what about when it comes to teachers&#8230; does gender really matter?<\/p>\n<p>Barry and I asked that question &#8212; and drew some conclusions &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwlworldwide.com\/blog\/whats-sex-got-to-do-with-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on our LWL Worldwide blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s sex got to do with it? Let us know what you think!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep Unwrapping The Mysteries of Life!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Heather Vale Goss\" src=\"http:\/\/heathervale.com\/images\/sigHVG_2.1_blue.gif\" alt=\"Heather Vale Goss\" width=\"205\" height=\"35\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Toronto &#8212; where I spent 20 years of my life, starting at the formative age of 17 &#8212; there is a very varied multicultural society. It&#8217;s not unusual to hear about this Jewish Party, and that Greek Festival, and the parties and events in Chinatown and Little Italy&#8230; and that&#8217;s just the beginning. 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