Researchers from Roehampton, London Metropolitan and Newcastle universities
have interviewed over 300 seven and eight-year-old boys and girls asking them whether
the gender of their teacher mattered to them. The early analysis of the data has showen that they were more concerned about the
quality of the teacher rather than their gender. According to the Guardian children repeatedly told
researchers: "Men and women are the same, they’re both teachers, they both teach
the same thing."