Teachers, Gender and the Feminisation Debate

Marie-Pierre Moreau is Professor in Education at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, UK. Her research is at the nexus of education, work and equality issues, with specific reference to the formation of gender-based inequalities in education and work settings. She is the author of Les Enseignants et le Genre (Presses Universitaires de France, 2011) and the editor of Inequalities in the Teaching Profession (Palgrave, 2014).

• List of tablesAcknowledgements Chapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2 - Teaching and the feminisation debate in contemporary timesChapter 3 - A socio-historical approach to the feminisation of the teaching profession Chapter 4 - Gender patterns in the teaching profession in the 21st century Chapter 5 - Teachers’ professional identities, career choice and genderChapter 6 - Gender divides in teachers’ careers and ‘private’ livesChapter 7 - Concluding comments

"Marie-Pierre Moreau’s Teacher, Gender and the Feminisation Debate provides a nuanced analysis of the intersections of gender and teaching that challenges everything we thought we knew about them. By critically engaging with the discourses of teaching as "feminized", Moreau examines the power structures that shift with different teaching contexts and historical eras in the global North and South, and by doing so, she demonstrates how contributions of women teachers become (re)constructed as inferior to men’s educational achievements, in spite of the profession being marked as a ‘caring profession naturally served by women’. This book is an important work for all scholars who care about women’s and men’s contributions in formal education worldwide."Nancy Niemi, Author of Degrees of Difference (Routledge, 2017) and Director of Faculty Teaching Initiatives at the Poorvu Center for Teaching & Learning, Yale University, USA.