The study’s author, independent researcher Kevin McGrath, found differences in promotion rates had shrunk.
“There’s historically been more men in leadership roles, and this has been taken as this glass escalator effect,” he said. “But that’s falling far more rapidly than the representation of men in classroom teaching positions.”
In the journal, Dr McGrath said the historical tendency to promote men might be due to a belief their choice to work with young children would be less likely to be “perceived negatively” if they entered management.
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