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Women have constituted the majority of the teaching force in British schools for most of this century, forming between 60 per cen and 70 per cent of teachers. Teaching is conventionally associated with women, but educational leadership is viewed as essentially men’s work.
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See for example, some of the teachers’ views affirming this point of view in the Clwyd survey (Clwyd/EOC, 1983).
Reason given by a male interviewer to a female candidate for not appointing her to the post of Head of Music Department.
Ann Oakley, 1981.
This has also been apparent in initial interview work conducted in research into teachers’ careers. Personal communication, Ann Kind-leyside.
Dante, Purgatorio, Canto XXV:47.
This research originated out of the School Management Development and Women Teachers Project. It is now being conducted jointly by the NUT, NAS/UWT and NATFHE.
Bel Hooks.
Woman teacher describing her experience of being tutor and participant in women’s training.
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Al-Khalifa, E. (1988). Pin Money Professionals? Women in Teaching. In: Coyle, A., Skinner, J. (eds) Women and Work. Women in Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19506-0_5
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