Is the gender imbalance in teaching linked to the gender imbalance in pupils’ outcomes? It is a question more people are asking. Julian Stanley looks at the role teacher recruitment and retention has to play

It is a well-known fact that today the UK has many more female than male teachers and this gender imbalance is currently getting worse not better.

The Department for Education’s School Workforce Statistics last year showed that the number of male teachers working in Britain had fallen for the fifth consecutive year – in 2010, one in four teachers were men, while in 2015 the ratio was just one in five

So, does it matter? In short – yes. Because many, including UCAS CEO Mary Curnock Cook,
believe that this imbalance is not only affecting how the profession is viewed, but is also suspected to
be having a negative effect on educational standards too.

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