Women in Primary Teaching: Career Contexts and StrategiesWomen constitute 75per cent of primary school teachers, yet the majority of headteachers are men. This book investigates the experiences of women in primary school teaching and examines the levels of promotion achieved by men and women in the profession. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Career conditions and promotion structures | 25 |
The labour market for primary teachers | 42 |
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achieve promotion Addison's basic scale career history group career history study career strategy career structure careers in primary cent changes chapter child childcare childfree classroom conditions of expansion culture of primary deputy head deputy headship educational authorities Evetts experience factors family responsibilities full-time teaching gender differences headship posts headteacher posts husband important increased individual infant schools infant teachers inspectors internal labour market local educational authorities marriage married women mothers numbers of primary numbers of teachers nursery occupational community particularly positions primary and infant primary education primary schools primary sector primary teaching labour promotion ladder promotion opportunities promotion posts promotion structure pupils return to teaching salary scale posts Scase and Goffee secondary teachers seeking promotion significant Sikes Silverstone staff staffrooms subjective careers teacher shortage teacher-mothers teaching career teaching labour market teaching posts teaching service woman women heads women primary teachers women teachers women's careers young children