Nursery World - Battle against staff gender stereotypes

Early years organisations have backed a call for more men to take up careers in childcare. The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) last week launched a campaign, 'What's Stopping You?', seeking to persuade young men and young women to consider alternatives to stereotypical career patterns.

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) last week launched a campaign, 'What's Stopping You?', seeking to persuade young men and young women to consider alternatives to stereotypical career patterns.

To highlight this the EOC pointed out that only two per cent of the Advanced Modern Apprenticeships in Early Years Care and Education in June 2001 were taken by men and 98 per cent by women. In contrast, at Foundation GNVQ level, 98 per cent of engineering students were male and two per cent female; 81 per cent of IT students were male and 19 per cent female; and 92 per cent of health and social care students were female and eight per cent male.

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