Women account for only 38 per cent of secondary headteachers. And while the proportion of women in secondary headship has increased over time, progress has been slow.
Research points to a number of different reasons why this may be the case. These include family and caring responsibilities, as well as stereotypical assumptions that align “leader” with “male”.
A lot of the research on the under-representation of female headteachers focuses on the views of those who have already made the leap to headship.
The voices of women deputies, as potential aspirants to headship, rarely feature. In light of this, I conducted some research focusing exclusively on the career ambitions of female deputy headteachers; I was interested in the extent to which they saw headship as a possible career move. So, what did I find?
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