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10% Braver

Name: 10% Braver
Brand: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
SKU: 9781526460042
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Inspiring Women to Lead Education

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Edited by Vivienne Porritt, Keziah Featherstone
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Release Date: May 30, 2019
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 176

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62% of teachers in secondary schools are women but only 39% of secondary headteachers are female Only 7% of women in education will attempt to negotiate their initial salary offer, compared to 57% of their male counterparts 1 in 4 teachers who quit the classroom in recent years were women aged 30-39 What would you do to make a change today if you were 10% braver? This is the ultimate guide for women in education. Written by leading members of the grassroots #WomenEd movement, it offers guidance on how to attain and succeed in leaderships positions, alongside nuanced analysis and debate of topics including: the gender pay gap, gender stereotyping in schools and beyond, the realities experienced by BME leaders and how flexible working cultures can redress inequities. Each chapter gives advice on how we can all change things for the better, as individuals, in our schools, and across the system, and how you can be part of the #WomenEd movement to improve equality in education for everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't miss BEING 10% BRAVER - the sequel book to 10% Braver that will inspire you to take your #10percentbraver journey further. Filled with real-life stories of women leaders in education, drawn from across the #WomenEd community. Out now! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** "This book matters because it is guaranteed to inspire, to educate and to spark a much-needed clamour for women to assume roles of influence throughout our education system." -Alison Peacock, Chief Executive of the Chartered College of Teaching ***

Joyously, Vivienne Porritt OBE is a co-founder, trustee and Global Strategic Leader of WomenEd, a global charity which empowers and elevates aspiring and existing women leaders in education. As a leadership consultant, Vivienne supports school and trust leaders with vision, strategy, professional learning and development, impact evaluation and DEIJ and she is also a coach and holds several governance roles. Vivienne is a former secondary headteacher and Vice President of the Chartered College of Teaching as well as Director for School Partnerships at University College London, Institute of Education. She writes for practitioner and academic journals and is co-editor of 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education (Sage, 2019) and Being 10% Braver (Sage/Corwin, 2021). Keziah Featherstone is a co-founder, trustee and strategic leader for #WomenEd and a member of the Headteachers' Roundtable, a non-political educational think-tank. After twenty years in senior leadership, she currently she lives with her husband, daughter, three cats and three pugs in the West Midlands where she is proud to be Executive Headteacher of Q3 Academy Tipton, a part of the Mercian Trust, her second headship. Keziah has written English educational resources for Pearson and Teachit, as well as articles for publications such as Tes, The Guardian and Schools Week, she also co-edited 10% Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education and Being 10% Braver.

Chapter 1: #WomenEd: Our story and our values - Hannah Wilson Chapter 2: #10% Braver: Feel the fear and do it anyway - Sue Cowley Chapter 3: Pink and blue limit us all - Jules Daulby Chapter 4: International perspectives - Liz Free Chapter 5: Concrete ceilings and kinked hosepipes: Understanding the experiences of BME female leaders in schools - Sameena Choudry Chapter 6: Doing leadership differently - Angela Browne Chapter 7: Removing the blinkers - Claire Nicholls Chapter 8: Get the job you dream of: Applying for leadership positions - Jill Berry Chapter 9: The #HeForShe agenda: What male leaders need to do to actively enable equality in education - Chris Hildrew Chapter 10: Flexing our schools - Helena Marsh and Caroline Derbyshire Chapter 11: What price equality?: The gender pay gap - Vivienne Porritt Chapter 12: Still we rise: Our agenda for the future - Keziah Featherstone

Written for all women in education, 10% Braver brings together a collective call to arms developed within the grassroots organisation, WomenEd. Its main message? Female leaders in education are underrepresented, something that needs to change. -- Hannah Stoten * Schools Week *

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