Andy Morris, chief executive at Asquith Nurseries, (pictured), is urging a comprehensive change in nursery recruitment policies. Currently, only two per cent of the early years workforce is male.
The trend carries on into primary school, with no male teacher at nearly a third of primary schools in the UK, according to recent figures from the General Teaching Council (News, 8 September 2010).
Mr Morris described the figures as troubling and said, 'I am afraid this is a subject that gets swept under the carpet but this is real discrimination against males - and the nursery industry is getting away with it.'
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