Early findings from on-going research by the Future Leaders Trust show that when school leaders become mothers their pay, training and promotion opportunities all suffer.
However, the same research has found that becoming a father tends to benefit the careers of male headteachers.
The warning comes after Future Leaders recently raised concern that there were 1,700 “missing” female headteachers in England. This is because, according to government data, while 74 per cent of teachers in the English state system are women, only 65 per cent of headteachers are women. If these figures were equal, there would be 1,700 more female heads.
The new findings come from an on-going Leadership and Parenthood Survey, which has so far been completed by 114 men and 171 women.
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