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What is the proportion of female to male teachers in your school?

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Icimoi · 05/10/2014 15:16

Where I'm a governor, there is only one male class teacher out of 16 (including two job shares) and the Head is male. In a friend's school, the proportions are more like 50:50. I once raised this with the head who said fairly defensively that they simply appoint the best person for the job regardless of gender. However, given that I'm sure the other school does the same, I wonder what the difference is?

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Jellyandjam · 08/10/2014 10:10

My children's primary school has no male teachers and has never had any for as long as my dd has been there (she's year 5 now).
My husband is an assistant head at a primary school and as well as him, there are 5 other males, I think around 11 female and the head is female.
The school I was teaching at had 7 female teachers (inc deputy head and SENCO) 1 male teacher and a male head teacher.
When I was doing my teacher training there were 120 on the course and around less than 20 were male.

MiaowTheCat · 08/10/2014 12:48

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nonicknameseemsavailable · 08/10/2014 14:26

oh - we have just got another one! similar to miaow - I think there is a definite 'hire men' thing going on at the moment.

ohthegoats · 08/10/2014 15:31

7 teachers including the head, 2 males. One of these is replacing me though while I'm on mat leave, I doubt he'll stay in any capacity when I get back.

dinkystinky · 08/10/2014 16:06

all female apart from 3 PE teachers and 2 music teachers at my sons' current school.

At their old school there were about 5 male class room teachers, male PE teacher and 2 male classroom teaching assistants

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