Why Male Educators?
The field of Early Childhood Educators is a field that has a high number of women representation. Out of 40 000 members that are registered with Ontario College of Early Childhood Educators approximately 600 of them are male, that is about 1.4% of Registered Early Childhood Educators (Irish. 2013).
Mission
Empowering males to join the field of Early Learning and Care by providing resources about the benefits of working in the field and how one they can become involved in this movement.
Vision
To see the number of males joining the field increase and eliminate the stereotypes people have about the men that do decide to join the field.
“Kids should see a reflection of a world of diversity and simply being a man should not be a criterion.Kids need diversity, different people, different races and in this case it’s good to have a male presence where it’s mainly women”(Irish, 2013)