Women Leading Education across the Continents

Elizabeth C. Reilly is internationally recognized for her research with women in educational leadership. She serves as Professor of Educational Leadership and Administration at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, USA.Quirin J. Bauer is Deputy Head of the Student Counseling Centre and Equal Opportunity Commissioner at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He also serves as Deputy Directorate on the Advisory Board of the Bavarian Equal Opportunity Commissioners.

• Foreword: Becoming the BeaconHelen Sobehart, United StatesAcknowledgmentsElizabeth C. Reilly and Quirin J. BauerPrologue: I'm Not Going to Take This Sitting Down: The Use and Misuse of Feminist Standpoint Theory in Women's Educational Leadership ResearchCharol Shakeshaft, United StatesSection 1: Gender Status and Educational LeadershipSection 1 Editor - Rachel McNaeSection I Overview: Gender Status and Educational LeadershipJacqueline Oram-SterlingThe American School Superintendent: Women and the SuperintendencyNoelle M. Ellerson, United StatesThe Gender Gap in Academia: The Case of CyprusMaria Eliophotou Menon, Deana Charalambidou-Solomi, and Mary Koutselini, Cyprus‘Breadwinners’ and ‘Homemakers’: How Constructions of Masculinities affect Women’s Progression in LeadershipPontso Moorosi, United KingdomAn Investigation of Gender Differences in Teachers’ CommunicationsApostolia Beka, GreeceWhere are All the Women Superintendents?: A Case Study of Pennsylvania, USA, Jill Sperandio, USASection 2:Challenges and Barriers for Women LeadersSection 2 EditorAnjale WeltonSection 2 Overview: The equal opportunity policy functions – with which strategies, under which circumstances and in which period of time? Susanne GruberLeadership Perspectives from a New Generation of Women Leaders: Balancing Acts ContinueWhitney Sherman Newcomb and Margaret Grogan, United StatesWhy Do Women Leave the Superintendency?Kerry Robinson, United StatesTransforming the Field? Scholarship of Women in Educational Administration Rhonda Mcclellan, Dana Christman, and Adrienne E. Hyle, United StatesBarriers to Leadership and Challenges faced by female Heads in Educational Institutions in UgandaAlice Kagoda, UgandaWhat Kind of Times Are These?: The Mystery of Sexual Harassment in the Post-Liberal Feminism EraCatherine Marshall, Brooke Midkiff, Stephanie Galloway, and Keren Dalyot, United StatesSection 3:Confronting the BarriersSection 3 EditorKerry RobinsonSection 3 Overview: Confronting the Barriers of Women Leaders around the WorldEsther Sui-Chu Ho, ChinaEmpowering Female Faculty in Ghana’s Public Universities: Mentoring - a Door Opener in the University of Education, Winneba and University of Cape Coast, GhanaJoyce Wilson-Tagoe, GhanaOrganizational Development by Fostering Young Academic Talents with Gender MainstreamingQuirin J. Bauer, GermanyFemale Graduate Students (Re)Define Mentoring in Educational Leadership: Results from a SurveyAnjalé Welton, Katherine Cumings Mansfield, and Pei-Ling Lee, United StatesTalking About Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class During Training of Public Teachers in São Paulo, BrazilRosangela Malachias, Brazil Section 4:Leading in Challenging ContextsSection 4 EditorDiane ReedSection 4 Overview: Leading in Challenging ContextsLinda LambertWomen of K-12 and Higher Educational Leadership in Afghanistan: A Comparison of ProgressElizabeth C. Reilly, United StatesThe Role of Women Leaders in a World of Terrorism and Natural DisastersAbida Mahmood, PakistanWomen Leading Schools in Challenging ContextsJane Rarieya, Tanzania One sister’s story of school leadership in the PhilippinesMichelle Colay, PhilippinesSection 5: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered LeadershipSection 5 EditorKatherine Cumings MansfieldSection 5 Overview: Deconstructing the Discourse on Gendered LeadershipJane Rarieya Theorizing Women Leaders’ Experience: Caught in the WebJacky Lumby, United KingdomWhere Does the Power Lie? Gender, Leadership, and Positional PowerSaeeda Shah, United Kingdom Applying the Leader Resilience Profile® to Compare and Contrast Leader Resilience by GenderDiane Reed, Bruce Blaine, Jerry L. Patterson, United StatesLearning Gendered Leadership: A Discursive StruggleKay Fuller, United Kingdom EpilogueElizabeth C. Reilly & Quirin J. BauerAbout the EditorsAbout the Section EditorsAbout the ContributorsIndex

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.