Social media has come alive since last spring with tweets, blogs and discussions about gender equality in the education sector.
The website StaffRm has 150-plus blogs alone exploring the hot topics that have polarised the Twitter community.
As these discussions illustrate, the systemic barriers inhibiting leadership opportunities for female teachers are complex. Preferred leadership characteristics, career parents juggling childcare and career development, career gaps, unconscious bias, lack of governor training and lack of part-time leadership opportunities and co-headship roles are just some of the issues cited by our community.
The result of this is clear – the statistics showing women in secondary teaching compared with headships nationally are alarming.
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