A matter of time? Gender equality in the teaching profession through a cross-national comparative lens. Issue 6 (17th August 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Moreau, Marie-Pierre
• Is Part Of: Gender and education. Volume 32:Issue 6(2020)
• Page Start: 820
• Page End: 837
• Publication Date: 2020-08-17
• Subjects: Cross-national comparison -- gender -- secondary school teachers -- France -- England; Sex discrimination in education -- Periodicals; Sex role -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Women -- Education -- Periodicals; Discrimination sexuelle en éducation -- Périodiques; Rôle selon le sexe -- Périodiques; Femmes -- Éducation -- Périodiques; 379.26
• DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2018.1533918
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0954-0253

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article draws primarily on a dataset of 60 semi-structured interviews conducted with teachers working in English and French state-funded secondary schools. Informed by feminist sociological theories of work and education and a cross-national comparative perspective, it explores the mechanisms leading to the production of gender inequalities in a profession which is often thought of as egalitarian or even favourable to women: teaching. A multi-level approach is adopted, which considers how the macro-social, meso-social and micro-social dimensions of the social world interact with each other and lead to the production of context-specific gender patterns, with specific attention to the effects of the spatio-temporal regimes of teaching which prevail in each country.