男老师的“魅力资本”
Male teachers often use their 'erotic capital' when dealing with female members of staff, according to the head of a leading prep school.
一所一流预备学校的校长表示，男老师跟女同事打交道时经常运用自己的“魅力资本”。
Alison Fleming said that men in some schools could gain the upper hand in staff rooms by being 'flirtatious' with admiring colleagues.
Speaking yesterday at a gender issues conference, she even jokingly compared the situation to erotic novel, E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey.
She was speaking in general about schools nationally, and there is no suggestion that such behaviour takes place in her own school.
The event, held at Newton Preparatory School in Battersea, examined the issue of a disproportionately low number of women obtaining senior leadership roles in education.
Mrs Fleming, head mistress at the school, also said men sometimes had an advantage in teaching because governors felt they needed more male role models.
She said: 'Men's pathway into leadership, in my view, is - because people have got this slightly warped idea that we need good male role models - actually it seems to me that they've only got to be half way decent often before they shoot up the promotion ladder and find themselves running schools at aged 30.
'They don't always know a lot about education actually.
'When appointing heads, governors often... they like the idea of appointing a guy with a nice wife.
'There's a sense - certainly in the independent sector - in which that makes a good package.'
And she also suggested that men could succeed in the female-dominated sector by using their charms on their colleagues.
She said: 'Sometimes men in leadership can use what I would describe as their erotic capital. A male head master will sometimes - it will sometimes become a bit flirtatious.'