Could you explain the term "classroom heat"? I'm interested, and definitely have experience student harassment, particularly in anonymous fora--end of term evaluations and obscene phone calls/graffiti on my door after the course. And I definitely have suspected that some aggressive male students have felt more able to question my authority than they would a male professor, but that's almost impossible to quantify with certainty when it happens.
There have, however, been some studies of gendered teacher evaluations, etc., that suggest, IIRC, that, for example, two identical syllabi, presented with a seemingly "female" name on the top of one and a a "male" name, will be read differently by many students, with the female one being read, I'm pretty sure, as less "organized." But, again, I'm not sure if that's the kind of information you're looking for, and I'd need to check my memory of the research. |