Women leading education across the continents. / edited by Elizabeth C. Reilly and Quirin J. Bauer ; foreword by Helen C. Sobehart.

Portion of title Overcoming the barriers
Contents 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 -- Gender status and educational leadership / Jacqueline Oram-Sterling -- The American school superintendent : women and the superintendency / Noelle M. Ellerson -- The gender gap in academia : the case of cyprus / Maria Eliophotou Menon, Deana Charalambidou-Solomi, and Mary Koutselini -- "Breadwinners" and "homemakers" : how constructions of masculinities affect women's progression in leadership / Pontso Moorosi -- An investigation of gender differences in teachers' communications / Apostolia Beka -- Where are all the women superintendents? : a case study of Pennsylvania, USA / Jill Sperandio -- 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 -- Why do women leave the superintendency? / Kerry Robinson -- Transforming the field? : scholarship of women in educational administration / Rhonda McClellan, Dana Christman, and Adrienne E. Hyle -- Barriers to leadership and challenges faced by female heads in educational institutions in Uganda / Alice Kagoda -- 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 -- Confronting the barriers of women leaders around the world / Esther Sui-Chu Ho -- Empowering female faculty in Ghana's public universities : mentoring, a door opener in the university of education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast, Ghana / Joyce Wilson-Tagoe -- Organizational development by fostering young academic talents with gender mainstreaming / a. Quirin J. Bauer -- Female graduate students (re)define mentoring in educational leadership : results from a survey / Anjalé Welton, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, and Pei-Ling Lee -- Talking about intersections of gender, race, and class during training of public teachers in São Paulo, Brazil / Rosangela Malachias -- Leading in challenging contexts / Linda Lambert -- Women of K-12 and higher education leadership in Afghanistan : a comparison of progress, successes, and challenges / Elizabeth C. Reilly -- The role of women leaders in a world of terrorism and natural disasters / Abida Mahmood -- Women leading schools in challenging contexts / Jane Rarieya -- One sister's story of school leadership in the Philippines / Michelle Colay -- Deconstructing the discourse on gendered leadership / Jane Rarieya -- Theorizing women leaders' experience : caught in the web / Jacky Lumby -- Where does the power lie? : gender, leadership, and positional power / Saeeda Shah -- Applying the leader resilience profile to compare and contrast leader resilience by gender / Diane Reed, Bruce Blaine, Jerry L. Patterson -- Learning gendered leadership : a discursive struggle / Kay Fuller.
General note"Third Conference Proceedings from Volos, Greece."
General note"Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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ISBN9781475802245 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781475802252 (pbk. : alk. paper)