July, 2010

This question is in response to the July 4th Washington Post article concerning the relative absence of Black male teachers in our classrooms--only representing 2% in the nation, 8.3% in the District of Columbia, 4.3% in Maryland and 2.6% in Virginia.

I do not have solid proof, but I believe that the public school experience of my generation of black males in Jim Crow's South was far superior to that of most young African-American males in today's public schools anywhere in the nation.

Here's a recent photo of my brother Brett posed next to my brother Jeff's race car and a familiar bumpersticker. Look closely at the car door.

It says: Men Who Change Diapers, Change the World!

Thought you might appreciate the humor.

Kitt Cox

[MenTeach: Send in YOUR photo and we'll post it!]

I posted an ad on Craigslist this week and found myself in the new economy.

With my older son leaving for college soon, I need to hire afternoon help, someone to drive my younger son from school and to activities, and to do cleaning and shopping and errands to round out the job. It has been more than a year since I last looked to hire for a position like this, and I expected many of the changes out there -- more people answering the ad, willing to work for less money, bringing experience that far exceeds the job requirements.

It's a common complaint: men make more than women in the workforce. But while that's true overall (a recent study showed that full-time working women made 80% of the salary full-time working men made in 2009), it isn't true for every career. Here are four careers where women bring home more bacon than their male counterparts.