by Sarah-Eve Farquhar  "Of Puppy Dog Tails, Sugar and Spice: Gender Inequality and Discrimination in Early Childhood Education" Published in Delta 49(2), pp. 405-416, 1997.

This paper looks at how equal the opportunities for men in early childhood teaching are.

Men are scarce in the profession. Early childhood teaching is a women’s occupation. Given that men are under-represented and that the profession is dominated by women, could it be that men experience discrimination?

The findings reported here suggest that they do. The subjective experiences and perspectives of male childcare and kindergarten teachers and their female colleagues tell a story of apathy towards encouraging male participation in teaching, sexist treatment, and discriminatory employment practices. 

So what suggestions arise from the findings?

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