School leaders have called for action to stop the pay gap between male and female headteachers from widening. Today marks International Women’s Day (IWD) and Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT school leaders’ union, said that IWD served as a reminder that “we still have a very long way to go when it comes to tackling inequity”.
“School leadership pay has been eroded for everyone over the past decade, but for women there has been a ‘double hit’ due to continued disparity in the system,” he said. “Worryingly, there is evidence to suggest that the pay gap between men and women in school leadership has actually worsened over the past decade.”
Mr Whiteman pointed to recent analysis by NAHT with WomenEd revealing that the difference between male and female headteachers’ average pay across all state-funded nursery and primary schools had increased by nearly £1,000.
