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Becoming Career Ambitious: the career strategies of married women who became primary headteachers in the 1960s and 1970s

Julia Evetts Department of Sociology, University of Nottingham
Pages 15-29 | Published online: 06 Jul 2006

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Geoff Troman & Andrea Raggl. (2008) Primary teacher commitment and the attractions of teaching. Pedagogy, Culture & Society 16:1, pages 85-99.
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Marie‐Pierre Moreau, Jayne Osgood & Anna Halsall. (2007) Making sense of the glass ceiling in schools: an exploration of women teachers’ discourses. Gender and Education 19:2, pages 237-253.
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Diane Duncan. (2002) Emotionally intelligent female primary headteachers: The new women of power?. Education 3-13 30:3, pages 48-54.
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Leonie Warren. (1997) The career structure of women in education. Irish Educational Studies 16:1, pages 69-84.
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Tim Hill. (1994) Primary Headteachers’ Careers: a survey of primary school heads with particular reference to women's career trajectories. British Educational Research Journal 20:2, pages 197-207.
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Jeanette Morris. (1993) Women and Educational Management: a Trinidad and Tobago perspective. British Educational Research Journal 19:4, pages 343-356.
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Julia Evetts. (1992) When Promotion Ladders Seem to End: the career concerns of secondary headteachers. British Journal of Sociology of Education 13:1, pages 37-49.
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DavidA. Gillborn. (1989) Talking Heads: reflections on secondary headship at a time of rapid educational change. School Organisation 9:1, pages 65-83.
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Julia Evetts. (1988) Returning to Teaching: the career breaks and returns of married women primary headteachers. British Journal of Sociology of Education 9:1, pages 81-96.
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Gilles Combaz & Christine Burgevin. (2015) La direction d’école en France. Travail, genre et sociétés n° 34:2, pages 131-150.
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Geoff Troman & Bob Jeffrey. 2015. International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research. International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research 783 804 .
Geoff Troman & Peter Woods. 2009. Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives. Teachers' Career Trajectories and Work Lives 117 135 .
Mary McMahon, Brigid Limerick, Neil Cranston & Cheryl Andersen. (2006) Going up? Women in the public sector. Career Development International 11:7, pages 609-618.
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Jane O’Leary. (1997) Developing a new mindset: the “career ambitious” individual. Women in Management Review 12:3, pages 91-99.
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Noeline J. Kyle. (1993) Cara David: A Leading Woman in Australian Education. Journal of Educational Administration 31:4.
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Jennifer Nias. (1989) Subjectively speaking: English primary teachers' careers. International Journal of Educational Research 13:4, pages 391-402.
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Julia Evetts. (2011) Managing Childcare and Work Responsibilities: The Strategies of Married Women Primary and Infant Headteachers. The Sociological Review 36:3, pages 503-531.
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