ABSTRACT
Female teachers have certainly been present throughout the centuries, yet literature concerning them has been conspicuously absent. Written feminist pedagogy tends to concern university rather than primary and secondary education. Women have a long history of teaching at primary and secondary level, and mainstream education theory has largely ignored this until recently. Women as teachers, and teaching for gender equity at primary and secondary level are the issues here. Texts on women and teaching included here are historical, sociological, psychological, psychoanalytic, and philosophical, often with practical suggestions for ongoing research and practice. Major issues include the feminisation of teaching as a career, teaching for gender equity, and the sexual division of labor in the teaching hierarchy.
