Our Values
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Clarity
When we learned about the disproportionate representation of women leaders across education, the lack of diversity, the awful gender pay gap and the Motherhood Penalty, that clarity propelled us into action globally.
We work to share such clarity.
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Communication
We first created WomenEd because we saw that women educators and leaders were being silenced on Twitter.
We wanted to ensure women felt able to speak and that their voices were heard on social media.
It’s why we have a mic in our logo.
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Confidence
Many women in education feel they lack confidence.
We encourage them to be #10%Braver and to share their concerns, ambitions and successes.
They know their worth.
Do you?
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Collaboration
Collaboration at #WomenEd events has developed into learning between networks, including global groups and greater working with partners and other organisations.
This brings greater opportunities for women educators and leaders and enables us to reach more women.
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Community
Our global community supports women where they live and work through our networks.
Together we have a voice that is heard and respected and our community uses our voice to elevate women leaders in education and to disrupt the status quo.
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Connection
Women thrive on being connected yet tend to avoid traditional workplace networking.
We built #WomenEd around networks of leaders supporting women where they live and work.
We now have a hive of 30+ global networks and 50,000 followers worldwide, all connected in wanting equity for women educators and leaders in education.
It’s amazing.
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Challenge
The clarity of gender inequity in education led us to challenge all aspects of the under-representation of women leaders.
A significant challenge is to all aspects of the Recruitment process which results in white men being seen disproportionately in senior leadership. We challenge the lack of flexible working and remuneration decisions and disrupt the status quo in education.
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Change
This is the outcome we want from our combined values.
We want women leaders to insist on the changes needed to achieve gender equity in education.
We want male leaders to be allies in this drive to achieve greater diversity in leadership and for women’s voices to be heard.
We want systemic change.
Our Partners
We make a bigger difference when we collaborate with our partners, whom we wish to thank.
Our Global Strategic Leaders
Keziah Featherstone
Keziah is currently Executive Headteacher of Q3 Academy Tipton, a part of The Mercian Trust. Her large 11-19 school serves a diverse, multi-cultural community, many of whom experience socio-economic disadvantage.
Keziah is co-founder and a strategic lead of #WomenEd, as well as being a member of the Headteachers’ Roundtable. As well as writing articles for Tes and Schools Week, Keziah has co-edited the WomenEd books 10% Braver and Being 10% Braver.
She is currently writing her first solo book Punk Leadership, which will be published by Corwin in 2024.
She lives in Birmingham with a husband, daughter and various cats and pugs.
Liz Free
Liz Free is a co-founder of #WomenEd Nederlands and Strategic Leader for #WomenEd Europe. Liz has been a teacher and head teacher in some of the world’s leading schools and is now a globally recognised leader of education talent, continuing professional development and learning. Liz was the founding Director of the International Leadership Academy, the British School in the Netherlands and is now CEO and Director of the International School Rheintal in Switzerland.
Vivienne Porritt
Joyously, Vivienne Porritt OBE is Co-founder and Global Strategic Leader of #WomenEd, a global charity which empowers aspiring and existing women leaders in education.
Vivienne supports school and trust leaders with vision, strategy, professional learning and development, impact evaluation and DEIJ. She is a Vice President of the Chartered College of Teaching and holds several governance roles.
Vivienne is a former secondary headteacher and Director for School Partnerships at University College London Institute of Education. She writes for practitioner and academic journals and is co-editor of 10%Braver: Inspiring Women to Lead Education (Sage, 2019) and Being 10%Braver (Corwin, 2021).