For Hogwarts hiring, we also need to consider what the other job prospects in the ww are and the chances women have at them, to rule out the possibility that Hogwarts teacher is that crap job you only take if you have no other options and that women do usually have better options. Or the possibility that, if gender bias is in play, that Albus's bias is any more pronounced than the ww today, for that matter.
Aurors seem to have fewer women than men. Heads of Ministry departments and offices also seem to be male more often than female from what we see: over the past 20 years or so, we know of Crouch Sr., Ludo Bagman, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dirk Cresswell, Arthur Weasley, Pius Thicknesse vs. Amelia Bones and possibly Millicent Bagnold if she held a supervisory position before becoming Minister for Magic. Of the four Ministers we see, three (Fudge, Scrimgeour, Thicknesse) are men, one (Bagnold, whom we don't actually see as Minister but who is in power when Harry is left on the doorstep) a woman. (If Kingsley got promoted in-book and not just in interview, make that 4/5 male for the post.) Umbridge reaches a high post, senior undersecretary. (Kind of notable that the three highest-ranking women here are (a) retired and irrelevant, (b) killed off quickly, and (c) evil...)
We know more male Ministry rank-and-file names as well, I think. Croaker and Bode, Perkins, Reg Cattermole, Percy Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alastor Moody, , Dawlish, Amos Diggory, Walden Macnair, Frank Longbottom vs. Alice Longbottom, Bertha Jorkins, Mrs. Edgecombe, and Tonks.
The Wizengamot seems like the numbers might be more equal, peeking around the fact that Harry knows more of the men by name?
Both retail establishment ownership and service jobs seem to tilt male as well. The trolley witch, Madame Malkin, Madame Rosmerta, Madame Puddifoot, the Weasleys' shop girl, and Mrs. Flume vs. Ambrosius Flume, Aberforth Dumbledore, Ollivander, Florian Fortescue, Stan and Ernie, Tom of the Leakey Cauldron, Borgin and Burke, and the Weasley twins. And all those male goblins working at the bank. Though we don't see all the shops in Hogsmeade or even Diagon and Knockturn Alleys, so this might be misleading.
Musicians: Celestina Warbeck, Stubby Boardman, and the Weird Sisters consisting of an unspecified number (in the book) of hairy men.
Writers: Rita Skeeter, Gilderoy Lockhart, Bathilda Bagshot, Libatius Borage, Arsenius Jigger, and some of the other textbook authors I'm forgetting.
If someone has better numbers, maybe we'd see a different picture, but it looks to me like Dumbledore is in line with the ww at large.
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Date: 2014-06-15 10:37 pm (UTC)Aurors seem to have fewer women than men. Heads of Ministry departments and offices also seem to be male more often than female from what we see: over the past 20 years or so, we know of Crouch Sr., Ludo Bagman, Rufus Scrimgeour, Dirk Cresswell, Arthur Weasley, Pius Thicknesse vs. Amelia Bones and possibly Millicent Bagnold if she held a supervisory position before becoming Minister for Magic. Of the four Ministers we see, three (Fudge, Scrimgeour, Thicknesse) are men, one (Bagnold, whom we don't actually see as Minister but who is in power when Harry is left on the doorstep) a woman. (If Kingsley got promoted in-book and not just in interview, make that 4/5 male for the post.) Umbridge reaches a high post, senior undersecretary. (Kind of notable that the three highest-ranking women here are (a) retired and irrelevant, (b) killed off quickly, and (c) evil...)
We know more male Ministry rank-and-file names as well, I think. Croaker and Bode, Perkins, Reg Cattermole, Percy Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alastor Moody, , Dawlish, Amos Diggory, Walden Macnair, Frank Longbottom vs. Alice Longbottom, Bertha Jorkins, Mrs. Edgecombe, and Tonks.
The Wizengamot seems like the numbers might be more equal, peeking around the fact that Harry knows more of the men by name?
Both retail establishment ownership and service jobs seem to tilt male as well. The trolley witch, Madame Malkin, Madame Rosmerta, Madame Puddifoot, the Weasleys' shop girl, and Mrs. Flume vs. Ambrosius Flume, Aberforth Dumbledore, Ollivander, Florian Fortescue, Stan and Ernie, Tom of the Leakey Cauldron, Borgin and Burke, and the Weasley twins. And all those male goblins working at the bank. Though we don't see all the shops in Hogsmeade or even Diagon and Knockturn Alleys, so this might be misleading.
Musicians: Celestina Warbeck, Stubby Boardman, and the Weird Sisters consisting of an unspecified number (in the book) of hairy men.
Writers: Rita Skeeter, Gilderoy Lockhart, Bathilda Bagshot, Libatius Borage, Arsenius Jigger, and some of the other textbook authors I'm forgetting.
If someone has better numbers, maybe we'd see a different picture, but it looks to me like Dumbledore is in line with the ww at large.