Heads
Women are taking fewer of the top jobs in teaching in England and Wales, an annual recruitment survey says.
Among head teachers appointed to secondary schools in the last year, only 32% were women, compared to 40% in the previous year.
John Dunford, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said that it was too early to say whether the decline in the number of women getting head teachers’ jobs in secondary schools was “a blip or a trend”.
But he called for action to tackle obstacles that could explain the under-representation of women in the top jobs in school.
Fair enough, but then how is this then not requiring of action?
In primary schools, 75% of head teachers appointed during the school year were women, a lower figure than the female proportion of the teaching staff.
Maybe, all the women who want to be heads are in primary?