Women Leading Education across the Continents

Overcoming the Barriers

Foreword by Helen C. Sobehart Edited by Elizabeth C. Reilly, Quirin J. Bauer

Publication date:

08 April 2015

Length of book:

226 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475802245

Women Leading Education Across the Continents—Overcoming the Barriers is the third collection of research about and stories of women leading education on every continent in the world. Internationally recognized scholars and practitioners offer a research-based conversation and systematic collaborative inquiry in exploring the status of women in educational leadership. Their work invites global policy development highlighting women's educational leadership as a critical social justice issue. The array of topics this volume includes are gender status and educational leadership, challenges and barriers for women leaders, confronting the barriers, leading in challenging contexts, and deconstructing the discourse on gendered leadership. This compelling book offers food for the intellect and rage for the belly that impels forward the moral imperative of women leading education internationally.

Foreword: Becoming the Beacon
Helen Sobehart, United States
Acknowledgments
Elizabeth C. Reilly and Quirin J. Bauer
Prologue: I'm Not Going to Take This Sitting Down: The Use and Misuse of Feminist Standpoint Theory in Women's Educational Leadership Research
Charol Shakeshaft, United States
Section 1: Gender Status and Educational Leadership
Section 1 Editor - Rachel McNae

Section I Overview: Gender Status and Educational Leadership

Jacqueline Oram-Sterling

The American School Superintendent: Women and the Superintendency

Noelle M. Ellerson, United States

The Gender Gap in Academia: The Case of Cyprus

Maria Eliophotou Menon, Deana Charalambidou-Solomi, and Mary Koutselini, Cyprus

‘Breadwinners’ and ‘Homemakers’: How Constructions of Masculinities affect Women’s Progression in Leadership

Pontso Moorosi, United Kingdom

An Investigation of Gender Differences in Teachers’ Communications

Apostolia Beka, Greece

Where are All the Women Superintendents?: A Case Study of Pennsylvania, USA, Jill Sperandio, USA

Section 2:Challenges and Barriers for Women Leaders
Section 2 Editor
Anjale Welton

Section 2 Overview: The equal opportunity policy functions – with which strategies, under which circumstances and in which period of time?

Susanne Gruber

Leadership Perspectives from a New Generation of Women Leaders: Balancing Acts Continue

Whitney Sherman Newcomb and Margaret Grogan, United States

Why Do Women Leave the Superintendency?

Kerry Robinson, United States

Transforming the Field? Scholarship of Women in Educational Administration Rhonda Mcclellan, Dana Christman, and Adrienne E. Hyle, United States
Barriers to Leadership and Challenges faced by female Heads in Educational Institutions in Uganda

Alice Kagoda, Uganda

What Kind of Times Are These?: The Mystery of Sexual Harassment in the Post-Liberal Feminism Era

Catherine Marshall, Brooke Midkiff, Stephanie Galloway, and Keren Dalyot, United States
Section 3:Confronting the Barriers

Section 3 Editor
Kerry Robinson

Section 3 Overview: Confronting the Barriers of Women Leaders around the World

Esther Sui-Chu Ho, China

Empowering Female Faculty in Ghana’s Public Universities: Mentoring - a Door Opener in the University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast, Ghana
1. Joyce Wilson-Tagoe, Ghana
Organizational Development by Fostering Young Academic Talents with Gender Mainstreaming
1. Quirin J. Bauer, Germany
Female Graduate Students (Re)Define Mentoring in Educational Leadership: Results from a Survey
1. Anjalé Welton, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, and Pei-Ling Lee, United States
Talking About Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class During Training of Public Teachers in São Paulo, Brazil
1. Rosangela Malachias, Brazil

Section 4:Leading in Challenging Contexts

Section 4 Editor
Diane Reed

Section 4 Overview: Leading in Challenging Contexts

Linda Lambert

Women of K-12 and Higher Educational Leadership in Afghanistan: A Comparison of Progress

Elizabeth C. Reilly, United States

The Role of Women Leaders in a World of Terrorism and Natural Disasters

Abida Mahmood, Pakistan

Women Leading Schools in Challenging Contexts

Jane Rarieya, Tanzania

One sister’s story of school leadership in the Philippines

Michelle Colay, Philippines
Section 5: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered Leadership
Section 5 Editor
Katherine Cumings Mansfield

Section 5 Overview: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered Leadership

Jane Rarieya

Theorizing Women Leaders’ Experience: Caught in the Web

Jacky Lumby, United Kingdom

Where Does the Power Lie? Gender, Leadership, and Positional Power

Saeeda Shah, United Kingdom

Applying the Leader Resilience Profile® to Compare and Contrast Leader Resilience by Gender

Diane Reed, Bruce Blaine, Jerry L. Patterson, United States

Learning Gendered Leadership: A Discursive Struggle

Kay Fuller, United Kingdom
Epilogue
Elizabeth C. Reilly & Quirin J. Bauer
About the Editors
About the Section Editors
About the Contributors
Index

This book brings compelling evidence that the so-called “glass ceiling” metaphor is an overly simplistic idea that masks the real complexities and barriers facing women around the world. To understand the cultural, political, social and economic forces and how they intersect to discourage and marginalize women in our educational systems at all levels will convince even the most skeptical reader that there remains a long and protracted struggle ahead. The forms that struggle takes will undoubtedly be shaped by the outline of the chapters in this book.