BROWN, Suzanne (2023). Where are the part-time women teachers in senior school leadership? : Inequalities, tensions and timescapes. Educational Management Administration & Leadership.
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Abstract
The chances of a woman teacher who works part-time in a secondary school becoming part of the
senior leadership tier are slim; yet, little research exists around this inequality. In this study, a life
history approach was used to gather the messy and subjective truths of women’s lives as part-time teachers and their relationships with time and career progression. New evidence of tensions
emerged resulting from women navigating the demands of both their professional and home-life
roles with insufficient time. Crucially, their various roles demanded different relationships with
temporal features or timescapes. Frequent and bumpy traversing of these different timescapes
was necessary in navigating their paid roles alongside their home-life responsibilities and this
came with a cost to emotional wellbeing as well as deterring them from progressing their careers.
Importantly, these insights help to explain why part-time working can impact negatively on
women teachers’ motivation for career progression and how this can lead to inequality in senior
leadership.
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