Reviews:
"Overall, this book raises and discusses some very interesting and important issues. At 86 pages it is a quick read and is very accessible. It seems to me that the target audiences for the book are principally school teachers and policy makers... What is clear from this book is that there are no easy answers to the questions posed by the authors, and certainly no quick fix ‘solutions’." British Journal of Educational Research

“The book as a whole brings together some useful research data and will provide a source for future researchers.” Educational Review

"Three central themes of the book are outlined: gender,identity and employment; the effect on education of the new managerialism; the decline of men in teaching and the ‘problem of boys’. These themes have application well beyond the Scottish scene and it is the authors’ discussion of them, while drawing on the local data in the previous three chapters which makes this work interesting." Gender and Education