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littleoldlady · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 286 Location: knitting heaven

Just wondering from those of you teaching in universities - do the male and female teachers ever talk to each other or is segregation total?

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:43 pm Post subject:

I knew a married teaching couple who did a serious amount of bed-talk... Hope this helps! Cool

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12 Monkeys · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 82 Location: paradise lost

During class hours, no we don't. They are in a compleatly separate area of the campus with buildings of their own. Once a week during our staff meetings we get together in a class on the mens campus.

Other than that we talk after work on our way home on the bus or at the compound.

Cornelius

trapezius · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject:

NCTBA, it is called "pillow talk" Very Happy

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:02 am Post subject:

meri · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 31

We usually communicate by phone/email, but twice a semester we have a meeting by video, in which we get to look at the male teachers, but they can only hear us. This can be quite entertaining.

littleoldlady · Joined: 06 Apr 2009 Posts: 286 Location: knitting heaven

Thank you. I may be going to a small uni where there are only 5 females to 25 males in the ELC. That could be very entertaining! I have been told since that it's ok to talk to them outside of work hours???! Confused

Cleopatra · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 11:32 am Post subject:

Like so much else in KSA, it depends on the institution.

I have worked in places where the male teachers might as well not exist as far as we female teachers were concerned. Even though the men's college was just the other side of a high wall (as opposed to some colleges which have male and female sections in entirely different parts of the city) I would not have recognised most of my male 'colleagues' if I passed them on the street. I've also worked in places where men and women teaches have regular meetings and interact regularly, certainly outside of work.

Even in the latter case, however, students are entirely segregated and men and women rarely have much, if anything, to do with each other during the typical working day. Female teachers may well find that they have to deal with male admin staff in some matters, however, as the male staff almost always have the last say, at least in 'major' matters.

battleshipb_b · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 189

The only place you can really meet is the supermarkets. Try Panda.
You can always go to a restaurant and sit in the 'family section' and hope there are no restaurant mutawas patroling around.

Single women are kept off limits in most places but there are some very enterprizing women who know how to work around the system. Most of the men know this, too. However, there is always a risk. Just make sure you are never in a car with a woman not related to you or notmarried to you. Being arrested and treated like a criminal is not for the fainthearted.One of my friends was beaten on the soles of his feet for being in the same vehicle with a woman (who happened to be 20 years older than him!!!!). They suspected the worst. She'd been stranded and desperate got a ride back with him. Their bad luck, the mutawas were out on prowl.

Mia Xanthi · Posted: Wed May 06, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject:

Where I work, the male and female teachers live in the same compounds and, shockingly enough, ride on the same bus to work! Shocked

What's more, there is an area at work where we can all be in the same room for meetings. Many female teachers get rides to work with male teachers, and to my knowledge, no one has ever had a problem. Of course, this is in the Eastern Province, where things are quite a bit more liberal than in the rest of this..umm...lovely land.