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Diary of a headteacher: Where are all the female leaders?

When our headteacher diarist is presumed to be a primary leader because she is a woman, she reflects on why secondary school leadership is still failing to close the gender gap...

I left my house at 7am this morning. A regular morning and not an unusual time to leave. This was not a usual journey, though. I was travelling to Colchester to join my first local authority headteacher conference.

I drove through the traffic on the M25 and onto yet more traffic on the A12. I was due to arrive at 8:30am for coffee. By 9am, I was stuck in the middle of a field. Literally.

In the field I got the call from school to say a window had dropped out. Couldn’t do much about that from a field so I carried on driving.

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