MITEY2019 conference presentations

More than 140 delegates attended our #MITEY2019 conference in central London on 4 September 2019, and 98% of respondents to our evaluation said they were highly satisfied (68%) or satisfied (30%) with the day. Here are a few of their comments:

Your plan and vision is brilliant. Keep pushing.

It was a wonderful combination of fresh thinking about gender, practice and policy, voices from men working in the field and really constructive dialogues among men and women. So grown-up, reflective and energised. Well done to everyone.

Brilliant, informative, great discussions.

And here are (most of) the presentations. The speakers have agreed to their work being shared here, but they all retain copyright so do please credit them if citing their work:

Together we are MITEY: An introduction to the campaign. Dr Jeremy Davies. MITEY slidesDownload

Minority Report: Tales from the 3%: to watch our 30-minute panel discussion follow this link.

Mind the Gender Gap: Why men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus, and what that means for early years education. Professor Gina Rippon. MiTey ppt [Autosaved]Download

Why Diversify? Developing a rationale for a mixed-gender early years workforce. Dr Jo Warin. WarinMainHallPlenarySpeechaMWhy diversify the Early Years workforce 1st SeptDownload

Leading the Way: the London Early Years Foundation Approach. Dr Helen Perkins and June O’Sullivan MBE. LEYF-WLV-Seminar-August2019 BC (1)Download

Smashing Stereotypes: Practical ways you can change the gender landscape in your early years setting. Georgina Phillips (Gender Action Schools Award) and Caren Gestetner (Lifting Limits) Lifting LimitsWorkshop (Main Hall) (AM) and Sancho (PM) – CGDownload

How do you solve a problem like attracting, recruiting, retaining and developing men in the Early Years? Dr Simon Brownhill and David Wright. SimonBrownhillAMSanchoPMMainHallDownload

Lessons from North of the Border: how Scotland is leading the way on attracting more men into early years training. Alison Malcolm (Scottish Funding Council), Claire Glen & Anna Styles (West Lothian College) MIEY London presentationDownload

Diverse men in the early years: stories of exclusion from the workforce. Dr Jeremy Davies and Marcus Deyzel. diverse-men-in-early-years-final-1Download