(ANSA) - ROME, MARCH 07 - 83% are female teachers, in 2001 they were 78%.
In the first cycle, almost all of the teachers are women.
Even the last stronghold for male teachers, the superiors, is giving way: today they are only 34%, twenty years ago they were 41%.
The numbers come from the magazine Tuttoscuola which analyzed the data of the Ministry of Education and Merit portal.
From a geographical point of view, the feminization rate is higher in the Centre-North than in the South (about 2-3 percentage points more).
Male teachers from Rome upwards are practically on the verge of extinction: one in 20 in elementary school, one in 5 in middle school, one in 3 in high school.
And therefore, out of 700,000 tenured professors, 580,000 are women.
Thus last year, in the 2021/22 school year, the highest overall percentage of female teachers in state schools was reached: a good 83 out of 100. In 2001, 22 years ago, women among tenured teachers were only 78 %, 4 percentage points less.
In 14 years the trend has grown rapidly and then slowed down: in 2015 there were 82% of female teachers, only one percentage point less than today, after seven years.
The growing presence of women in Italian schools, especially in the first cycle, is not a surprise: for years, the percentage of female teachers in kindergarten and primary school has stabilized almost at the maximum, above 99% in the first and over 96% in the second.
The abandonment of school by men is also striking where there has always been a balance between men and women: the second cycle.
In fact, the presence of middle school teachers exceeded 78% (against 75% twenty years ago) and that of high school colleagues reached 67%, equal to 2 out of 3 women in professorships (against 59% in 2001).
At a territorial level, the Region with the highest rate of feminization is Lazio with 85% of female teachers, followed by Liguria with 84.6% and Lombardy with 84.2%.
On the contrary, Molise has 79.7% of female teachers, preceded by Basilicata with 80% and Sardinia with 80.3%.
Overall, the regions of Central Italy have the highest rate of feminization with 84.2%, while the Islands register the lowest rate with 80%.
On the occasion of International Women's Day tomorrow, March 8, Tuttoscuola compared the data from twenty years ago with the most recent ones, in order to understand how the Italian school has gone, over the years, turning more and more pink.
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