The employment gap between men and women at Primary and Secondary level continues to widen. In this blog, I ask why this is happening, how we can address it and why I believe it’s crucial we do so in the long term. First, some food for thought. Currently, 84.8 per cent of full time primary school teachers are female and 62.4 per cent of secondary school teachers. 91.5 per cent of teaching assistants and 82.0 per cent of support staff are female. Overall, 80.1 per cent of all

But first, a lovely tale.... I arrived at school smiling. My students arrive, after skipping through forests, admiring the daffodils, whilst occasionally stopping to read some Enid Blyton. I love Enid Blyton. In class, they carefully open their pristine exercise books and beautifully illustrated textbooks and are all eager to learn. I clear the apples from my desk. I just teach them, because teaching is great. Nothing bad happens. Teaching is great. Its hard work, but its gre