Five years after graduating university, she was settling into a full-term contract at her "dream job" on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, teaching at the high school she had attended growing up.
"The women in our study are telling us that that is showing up in the way that their boys — in the way that their students are treating them," Dr Wescott said.Despite his legal challenges and a reduced profile online, Mr Tate remains hugely popular. "His popularity has grown drastically because of his views on the world, the way he views things, the way he talks about men, women and all that."
Other young men who support Mr Tate, like 25-year-old Ethan Slater, agreed part of attraction was the promotion of a version of masculinity they appreciated." resonates with younger men because that's sort of what they aspire to be. It's big money, big goals, big dreams, and they want to achieve that themselves."
Halley Metcalfe is another one who decided the constant battle with his ideology just wasn't worth it. After a 16-year teaching career, she walked away in 2023. Ms Metcalfe believes it's a problem schools don't take seriously enough, and without a national approach in schools to address the problem more women teachers will follow her — and quit."It's a female-dominated industry and we're not looking after women.