Men used to be the people who did everything. Women almost never did any of those things you stereotype as womanly work until a century ago, when they finally allowed it.
So, I don’t totally go with that reasoning.
Risky with toddlers? Perhaps. But school kids would’ve been normal to have males teaching.
YOU ARE KIDDING!! NO REAL MALES WOULD EVER TEACH 1ST THRU 4TH GRADE!! ICKY!