Part 1 Rethinking career: review and critique of surveys on women teachers' careers, Rosemary Grant; careers on women primary headteachers, Julia Evetts; researching gender, educational administration and the Third World, Lynn Davies. Part 2 The shaping of experience - gender characteristics and biography: the process of becoming a feminist teacher and its effects on careers and pedagogy, Sue Middleton; the early years of teaching, Gillian Squirrel; race, gender and teachers' careers, Sheila Miles and Angela Lewis; sexuality, gender and teachers, Peter Aggleton. Part 3 Teachers at work - the impact of gender on relationships with parents, colleagues, pupils, students, managers, teachers and mothers, Miriam David; women teachers, Sheila Cunnison; teachers' perceptions of gender differentiation in a rural comprehensive school, Sheila Riddell; women's work, women's world - teachers and their students on a secretarial course in a further education college in Somerset, Edith Black; equal opportunities and school management, Elizabeth Al-Khalifa.
